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Picked a quart of strawberries and tossed another quote.  Wet weather, slugs, and pill bugs are ruining them faster than they ripen in the perpetual darkness.

Fresh salads.  Sugar peas are blooming and waist high.  Green beans are starting to vine.  Maters are still under the cold frame covers and doing fine.  I had been using them for moisture management, but the cold nites are a good reason too.

Bee hives are up to 5 now, 2 bought and 3 caught swarms.

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

Hunter S. Thompson

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Well a new era has begun for me, no more tilling with. Tractor or little tiller.  Two more rows and some drilling, adding bricks in botoms and filling, more weed barrier and mulch.  Heck nearly done, then it's planting time, maters,  zukes, cukes, canteloupes? ?

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8 hours ago, MOPanfisher said:

Well a new era has begun for me, no more tilling with. Tractor or little tiller.  Two more rows and some drilling, adding bricks in botoms and filling, more weed barrier and mulch.  Heck nearly done, then it's planting time, maters,  zukes, cukes, canteloupes? ?

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                  Do I see maybe their might be some double watering tubs?

"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

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2 hours ago, BilletHead said:

                  Do I see maybe their might be some double watering tubs?

Yes. What you can't see is the pile of extra tubs off to the side, they will all be doubles. 

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45 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

Yes. What you can't see is the pile of extra tubs off to the side, they will all be doubles. 

     Great. I hope and feel you will like it. In your case maybe a bit more water depending on rainfall. Maybe less also. As far as soil might supplement some miracle grow or equivalent granules down watering tube. I don't premix with water just pour down tubes. Your spot looks nice. In the thick of things I would say we get about 50% of daylight. Do miss some of the morning and late afternoon.

"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

BilletHead

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I had 3 of the doubles last year, only one did I put a tube in, the rest just stuck the hose in the gap between the tubs for a bit.  I fertilized pretry much the same way, I very carefully tossed some into the gap and add water.  Grew more cukes than I needed.  Also had 4 single tubs and they were much more of a pain to watwr etc.  So this year go big or go home!

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                  Finally have the garden done. Crazy weather. thumbnail_0528210802a.jpg

   Lettuce ready to start picking,thumbnail_0528210802b.jpg

 Full bed of assorted peppers,thumbnail_0528210802c.jpg

   More peppers and a bunch of tomatoes,thumbnail_0528210802d.jpgthumbnail_0528210803.jpgthumbnail_0528210802e.jpg

               Wildflower patch doing well. Coreopsis and Shasta daisies in full bloom and behind it the pale purple coneflower is about to burst out. Coming on strong  the butterfly milkweed is still green but buds forming.

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"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

BilletHead

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