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My garden is getting bigger

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I transplanted 6 tomatoes and my one lone eggplant out into my milk crates last night so they can start to finally grow: I also replaced those awful pickets on the deck with a nice looking trellis this last Sunday. I still need to build a platform to put these crates on to lift them up and then a lower one in front for more containers. I am really liking the milk crate and garden fabric idea. I folded the excess fabric down to provide a moisture barrier to help hold in moisture and it lets me unfold easily to add coffee grounds, eggs shells and other nutrients when I need to. Got strawberry plants from a friend who has a tone of them. Set up more tire planters for them: Got red ones: and white ones: We will have strawberries this year  . The red strawberries are actually 4 or 5+ smaller plants. I will give it a few days for the soil to dry out a bit as it has a lot of clay in it from the original garden and is still wet. I will then get in to break it up s

AHHHHHHH! Summer!

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Today is the official start of my summer. I am taking my 1st Friday off for a summer of 3 day weekends. The weather is cooperating, sun is out (tho there are some big clouds moving thru) and I have the house open. Our friend mowed our lawn yesterday and this morning I went out with an instrument of destruction and committed thistlecide: A really nice 1 gallon pump sprayer loaded with vinegar, Epsom salt, and dish soap. Sprayed on the thistle in the morning and then let the sun take over: I got quite a few of them this morning. Still have to go thru and kill some more, but my back started to go. Need to pull my little garden scoot out of the shed and then I can scoot around the lawn and spray the rest. I am starting to make the outside of the house mine. I rolled one of the tires I'd painted when I lived in the old place out front, lined it with cardboard, dumped in the soil from the tomato planters I'd done when we first moved in and then topped up with pottin

[OFFICIAL VIDEO] Imagine - Pentatonix

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[OFFICIAL VIDEO] Hallelujah - Pentatonix

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