So my original intent when I started this a couple years ago was to fill in between the wood with aggregate. Given my current health issues, and the fact that I’ll likely need to clear the snow, I decided to change the pathway to wood.

This is what it looked like when we bought the house.

The cheapest quickest thing at the time was to just sod everything.

Next year I got the flower beds started

Fence and gate

More flower beds

Still grass

And the start of the pathway

If you have any particular questions, feel free to ask.

Pickled all my garden beans, was gonna save some by freezing for a family dinner, but the recipe I used called for 1.5lbs, and well I had exactly 700grams, so I used them all.

I mostly followed this recipe, with some modifications, that I got from another post earlier this week.

I doubled the sugar, and put 4 cloves in each jar instead of 2 for all. I don’t like vinegar that much, so hopefully these are more dilly and garlic.

I’ll see how they turned out in a week!

Don’t think it’s worth spraying down with neem oil or something at this point.

It’s only its second year, the buds are just forming, and I wasn’t expecting to do much with them. If I’m gonna try brewing a batch of beer the first will be with some store bought dried hops to get the feel of things first.

On the plus side, I did get a decent haul of bush beans, a couple dozen are over ripe though.

No, threepio hasn’t been upgraded to have some thrusters, it’s supposed to artoo, who’s answering correctly.

The pages feel thinner and you can see the text on the other side more as well. Book 6 is a 10th printing and book 7 is a 5th printing. Doesn’t say years, so I wonder if they switched to thinner or back to thicker?

The tomatoes and peppers aren’t going to like this at all. ~100mm of rain as well over a few days.

22 Tomato and 11 pepper plants, spacings a little tighter than it should be on some of the tomatoes, but it should be okay.

I’m planning on grabbing some more Asimov books and grab most of Martha’s MurderBot series, as well as Hugo and Nebula collections.

Any other sci-fi type stuff you guys recommend? I’m not a huge fan of the more fantasy stuff, although I agree Star Wars falls into that catagory.

Had my second carpal tunnel release surgery last week, so I couldn’t resecure the fan correctly with only one hand.

And now, the strong Cree Cob white lights are burnt out, so now I’m left with just the supplemental wavelengths and some smaller white LEDs. The Cree ones are a LITTLE strong for vegetable starters anyways. But these aren’t enough for this stage either now.

An assortment of pepper and tomatoe varieties.

Most lived, some died. They got a little too dried out over the weekend so the smaller ones shriveled. Just forgot about them, kid had a dance comp and then my mother passed. So I’m just glad most actually survived.

Still got another month atleast before hardening, that will give the peppers about 8 weeks, they’re 4 weeks now.

Tents a little full, I’m expecting not every transplant to take.

For tomatoes I have:

Gusto Halia

Jubilee

Cherry Roma

Beefsteak

Black Krim

Yellow pear shape

Green zebra

Rainbow blend 

Get stuffed 

For peppers:

Red bell

Fat and sassy

jalepeno (early)

Sweetie snack mix

Hungarian hot wax

Habanero

Red habanero

Shishito

Sweet

Mini bell mix

Early sunsation

Golden California

Purple Beauty

The full spectrum white light would be too intense on this light right now, it’s not adjustable, so I’ve got supplementary wavelengths on, they’re better for seedlings anyways.

Fan for airflow, humidifier since it’s dry as shit here.

Most have some true leaves coming in, but there’s still a dozen or so still sprouting as well on the heat mats.

They’re all peppers and most look like they have their taproot coming out of the seed as well. Hopefully some aren’t too deep.

At least, that’s what I assumed happened. It’s a first edition copy from 1999 as well.