Garden Time, JINMAN ??????

[jinman]

...You know getting older and bending over thinning those rows out gets to the back . I told my wife I was going to get one of those grabber things that you can reach down and pick stuff up with, modify it and use it to pull weeds .

David

David, I know exactly what you mean. Last year it took me forever to plant, but this year it's a breeze. I also have a little tiller like the Mantis that does a great job weeding. If I'm lucky, I won't have to bend over until it comes time to pick veggies.

We'll see in a few weeks if I have to do any serious thinning.

I do feel sorry for all you folks who still have winter weather. It's great to get out in March here and plant a garden.

 

[jinman]

Hey BB_TX (Bill)! You started this thread and now I haven't heard much from you. How is your garden going? How about some pictures. I'm not going to let you off that easy.

 

[Egon]

I do feel sorry for all you folks who still have winter weather. It's great to get out in March here and plant a garden.

Okay !!!

 

[Thomas]

"I do feel sorry for all you folks who still have winter weather. It's great to get out in March here and plant a garden."

OUCH that hurt,but I'll let it slide if you send some of your warm weather our way to help drop 2+ feet of snow Jim.

 

[jinman]

OUCH that hurt,but I'll let it slide if you send some of your warm weather our way to help drop 2+ feet of snow Jim.

Thomas and Egon...
This summer when the temperatures here are in the 100s, I'll be wishing I was where you are. Right now it has been dry with no significant rain for almost three weeks. The trouble with planting my garden is that I have to immediately start watering. However, look at this forcast for tonight and tomorrow. It looks like things may change for us.

Forecast for the week

 

[Egon]

That type of weather looks like prime summertime here.

What is +100F anyway???

 

[txdon]

That type of weather looks like prime summertime here.

What is +100F anyway???

Egon I was outside last August framing the Garage/Storage building this was a typical day.

Before the sun rises it is 80F. You want a cold drink not coffee. Your AC has been running all night and as soon as you step outside the warm humid morning warns of a punishing day. Your skins starts to turn moist in the attempt to prepare for the onslaught of heat. At mid morning the temperature is now 90F you are thirsty and drinking and drinking the sun is glaring in your eyes and if you hair is thin your scalp starts to burn. Everything is done in the shade. At lunch (if your lucky) you can take off your wet clothes, shower and put on some dry clothes and feel a bit refreshed. You are not really too hungry but a light cool salad or sandwich sounds good. After lunch every minute seems to get hotter at 100F at mid afternoon every tool that is exposed to the sun burns your hand, it is hard to breath, every 10 minutes you must get more water with some type of electrolyte added. Your mind cannot analyze as well anymore. At 5:00 PM it is now the hottest time of the day it is 107F. You feel like someone opened the oven door and you have to breath the hot air, you cannot escape it. You find yourself sitting more and more drinking more and more and asking yourself what was I doing now, then, what am I doing out here now any way, you escape by going indoors for a while. You cool off and look outside the sun is less bright and it is 7:00 PM you cautiously step outside it has cooled 5F to a tolerable 102F. You slowly work for about an hour and call a day. At 10:00 PM you check the temperature, it is 98F. You sigh and think of the cool weather Eegon is having, he may even be in a sweater right now!

 

[Egon]

Good gosh, we get a few days at +35 C [ 95F ] and that is shade time for me now.

When we first moved here There were days I'd work in that temperature but no longer. Maybe I realized retirement had arrived.

 

[Bird]

Good gosh, we get a few days at +35 C [ 95F ] and that is shade time for me now.

When we first moved here There were days I'd work in that temperature but no longer. Maybe I realized retirement had arrived.

I think it's called "old age", Egon. I never lived or worked in an air-conditioned house or building until I was grown and left home. And I can remember seeing more than 110F on the thermometer in the shade at my dad's service station more than once. I'm not at all sure I could do that now, though.

My youngest daughter had never been in the little bass boat I bought last August and she'd never seen the state park at Ray Roberts Lake, so she wanted me to take her boat riding yesterday. The water temperature in the lake ranged from 57 to 60F and the air temperature got to 80 yesterday.

Today I've mowed, edged, trimmed, fertilized, and spread a granular insecticide on the yard. If it ain't raining, as forecast, when I get up in the morning, I'll get the sprinklers going.

 

[jinman]

Today I've mowed, edged, trimmed, fertilized, and spread a granular insecticide on the yard. If it ain't raining, as forecast, when I get up in the morning, I'll get the sprinklers going.

I powerwashed 3/4 of my deck today, hoping all the time that it would start raining and I'd have an excuse to stop and let my back rest. The stain that looked so good just two years ago was chipped and showing bare wood everywhere the summer sun hits in the afternoon. I've stained and put polyurethane varnish on my front door every year since my house was built. One year of sun and the paint looks as old as I do.