The storm that spawned this red rainbow also spawned grape-sized hail near Busby Alberta. Watching the clouds roll over our house was fascinating yet somewhat alarming since they were some pretty nasty clouds! It’s tornado season here, so whenever the storm warnings pop onto my cell phone, I have a look at the radar if [...]
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So the weeds came with a vengeance this week. This will not be fun to pick since while on vacation I nearly had to go into Emergency with some really bad intestinal pain. It’s taken days for it to go away and is only a bit sore now unless I move the wrong way. I [...]
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I’m on vacation all this week and have left Darren in charge of weeding and watering! It’ll be nice to have a brief time off before everything starts producing. This last week I planted out in a pot in the front yard, another gourd seedling since Not as many germinated that I had hoped. It’ll [...]
First off, I have got the front yard pictures. Our place faces north so the only sun the yard gets is on the north edge. Here’s a pic of everything arranged: In the Camrose plot today I put up 3 more short fences with chicken wire to ‘remind’ the dogs to stay out of the [...]
I planted 2 more containers in my front yard today: The round pot has a Christmas Grape Tomato plant, and a Yellow Pear-shaped tomato plant. Both give small cherries so should be great for the container…assuming they survive our daily thunderstorms. The other long, short, rectangular container is half planted with sage and the other [...]
