I was going to plant the 1/2 acre behind the duplex we own and rent. But hubby was so busy last time he was home he didn't have time to take the tractor and plow up to plow and disc it. It hasn't had a garden on it for years or if ever, not sure, and used to have a septic field on one side of it so I didn't figure I could do it with my tiller that way. I have a Pony TroyBilt, really like that tiller. Hubby teased me and didn't want me to buy it, said I would never use it, this is year 4 or 5, so he hasn't said anything else about it. We put in city water and sewer when it was annexed a few years back so the field is no longer used. I was just wanting to plant a field of sweet corn and water melons. I would freeze the corn, nothing better then fresh corn cut off the cob and frozen. Probably could sell some of them. The neighbor cater corner from it up at Conroe puts out a huge garden. But guess it was no better than mine last year, looked like he plowed his corn and stuff under early. I wonder if he has a truck garden cause he sure puts out a big one and its usually really pretty. It was so dry last year nothing grew very well. I just don't see many people putting out gardens anymore.
We have mexican laborers go by, they work at either building houses or lawn work over in the new expensive subdivision near us, or work for the guy that owns the plant nursery beside us, and they seem to think its a real novelty seeing an old white woman out there putting in and raising a garden. I have some older people stop and tell me its sure a nice looking one. Am I out of sync or what? When I had to quit working in accounting, it like to killed me, I had to find something to do. Something to fill my time and be productive. I got a real estate license but didn't care for that but no way I could work, I tried but everytime I went to work, mom or DD would be sick. (Oh, I don't know if I said, our daughter is mentally challenged. She just turned 38 and for quite a few years she has had issues with diverticulosis and had to have a colon resection. She does well with me home. Mom's problem was just old age and then end of life issues, that we all have to deal with.) I had to give up about 10 years early and it like to killed me, I liked working. I was bored to death and got very depressed. Finally I started planting a garden, working on rentals with one of my tenants, raising chickens, and going back to sewing and making most of my and some of DD's clothes. I was always a good seamstress. One of our bedrooms is now my sewing room. Hubby and I put together about 8 foot of cabinets for my fabric stash and I have a big roll around storage unit too. I have pattern cabinets from a fabric store, LOTS of patterns and 4 types of sewing machines. I can make most anything, including fitted bedspreads. Even make my own fitted sheets anymore.
I'm always wanting to learn something new. I put most of the laminate floors down in our house, and yep I trimmed them out too and taught myself to lay that commercial tile. Then decided I wanted 6 panel doors in our house, instead of those old flat doors, so figured out how to set the hinges, hubby has a mortising kit and a router, that wasn't hard. But hanging them by myself was an interesting exercise, but you can do wonders with a good old pry bar. I tiled our garage floor with that commercial tile you see in places like Walmart, hubby laughed at that. He said why? I said so I can keep it cleaner!!
Tonight they had tornado warnings out. I have over 100 blooms on one of my peach trees and almost the same number on an orange tree, and a grapefruit tree. They were talking high winds and hail. I went out and put garbage bags over 2 of the trees, then I found a tarp and wrapped rope around it and tied it to the fence over the orange tree. I figured wind and hail would knock all the blossoms off. I hope the wind didn't knock all the blooms off my tomatoes. The temp dropped from about 80 to 57, pretty good front went through.
Well way to much information, so good night.
