Seriousness What's out in your garden now .... - Page 50

montsnmags · 06-05-2010, 04:21 AM

Okay, so today I got around to nicking the garden boxes from next door (they're marine-grade stainless steel) and hacking a chunk off one with the jigsaw and drilling a couple of holes to see if I could hook them over the back retaining wall for a herb garden. It works!

I've still got to do the rest, buy more if the hooks, and paint them, but we'll soon have the start of a herb garden.

The rest, with different hooks, will run along our bottom balcony, possibly with dwarf chilli plants in them:

This bit will hold some of the longer boxes (they're all different sizes) and go to that first big pole.

The Loved One also put some more postcrete in the holes of the uprights for the new side retaining wall, and we'll probably start on the horizontals on Tuesday. The top garden formed by that will get some hoop pine mulch and some more golden cane palms.

Cheers,
Marc

Stitchawl · 06-05-2010, 05:41 AM

Herb gardens are the best of all to have. You can pick and pick, always having new growth (if you're lucky.) By varying your ethnicity in food choices, you give your herbs a good rotation of harvesting, so you always have fresh herbs for the meal. The only one in serious demand seems to be parsley, so I have several pots of it growing. Three pots of rosemary, three of oregano, two thyme plants, six basil plants (just because it smells so damn good,) two fennel plants, two dill plants, peppermint, spearment, two pots full of cat-chewed lemongrass, and as of this week, three pots of cilantro. I think I got the cooking herb requirements filled... Time to think about tea herbs.

(Note: I freeze a LOT of herbs for winter use.)

Stitchawl

beppe · 06-05-2010, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

Okay, so today I got around to nicking the garden boxes from next door (they're marine-grade stainless steel) and hacking a chunk off one with the jigsaw and drilling a couple of holes to see if I could hook them over the back retaining wall for a herb garden. It works!

I've still got to do the rest, buy more if the hooks, and paint them, but we'll soon have the start of a herb garden.

The rest, with different hooks, will run along our bottom balcony, possibly with dwarf chilli plants in them:

This bit will hold some of the longer boxes (they're all different sizes) and go to that first big pole.

The Loved One also put some more postcrete in the holes of the uprights for the new side retaining wall, and we'll probably start on the horizontals on Tuesday. The top garden formed by that will get some hoop pine mulch and some more golden cane palms.

Cheers,
Marc

So, you are not the light weight you pretend to be. Of course your Loved One is essential in this kind of operations. Bravo

beppe · 06-05-2010, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Herb gardens are the best of all to have. You can pick and pick, always having new growth (if you're lucky.) By varying your ethnicity in food choices, you give your herbs a good rotation of harvesting, so you always have fresh herbs for the meal. The only one in serious demand seems to be parsley, so I have several pots of it growing. Three pots of rosemary, three of oregano, two thyme plants, six basil plants (just because it smells so damn good,) two fennel plants, two dill plants, peppermint, spearment, two pots full of cat-chewed lemongrass, and as of this week, three pots of cilantro. I think I got the cooking herb requirements filled... Time to think about tea herbs.

(Note: I freeze a LOT of herbs for winter use.)

Stitchawl

Great. Let what you call cilantro go to seed. You will get the "bestest" of all. Coriander. Excellent with meats of any sort. Excellent with everything actually. Whole, under the teeth it cracks up a little bomb of marvelous flavor.

beppe · 06-05-2010, 08:03 AM

I worked and worked. I have one vegetable box, that's how the green foot above calls them, ready and covered for planting. It has to wait for when we come back from the sea. It will be late in July. I will put on the winter things. The lawns are trimmed. The other box, just needs a little scratching. Now I have to trim to measure a huge bush that occupies half of the terrace and clean the terrace. The garden is becoming nice. We eat outside more and more and LD likes it very much. We set up a little red tent for her where she can take little restoring naps with her dolls. She is adventurous and tries to climb the threes. Her legs are a collection of bruises. Black and blue. Ah!

WT Sharpe · 06-05-2010, 09:34 AM

This little fellow was in my garden this morning for a picture posted in another thread. If you look close, you can see the squash peeking out behind him.

kennyc · 06-05-2010, 10:06 AM

If you see the Buddha on the street.....SQUASH the Buddha! SQUASH the Buddha!

ardeegee · 06-05-2010, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

This little fellow was in my garden this morning for a picture posted in another thread. If you look close, you can see the squash peeking out behind him.

Is that Jizo?

WT Sharpe · 06-05-2010, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by ardeegee

Is that Jizo?

No, it's a "Laughing Buddha".

ardeegee · 06-05-2010, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

No, it's a "Laughing Buddha".

The "covered with children" made me think Jizo.

kennyc · 06-05-2010, 11:19 AM

Their is also that tradition in the Navajo Storyteller figurines

http://www.pueblopotteryme.com/storyteller2.htm

WT Sharpe · 06-05-2010, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ardeegee

The "covered with children" made me think Jizo.

Until I read that link that I sent you to, I didn't realize that rubbing his belly was suppose to bring luck.

I'll probably get lots of it since there was a ton of dust to be wiped off him before that picture was taken!

Oh, joy!

kennyc · 06-05-2010, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Until I read that link that I sent you to, I didn't realize that rubbing his belly was suppose to bring luck.

I'll probably get lots of it since there was a ton of dust to be wiped off him before that picture was taken!

Oh, joy!

Yep, more grandbabies!

WT Sharpe · 06-05-2010, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kennyc

Yep, more grandbabies!

Stitchawl · 06-05-2010, 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Until I read that link that I sent you to, I didn't realize that rubbing his belly was suppose to bring luck.

I'll probably get lots of it since there was a ton of dust to be wiped off him before that picture was taken!

Oh, joy!

When we were first married, I used to tell my wife that rubbing MY belly would bring good luck. I know it certainly brought ME good luck!

Your Buddha is a Chinese Buddha. I wonder if he works in Japan?

Stitchawl

06-05-2010, 09:34 AM	#741
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06-05-2010, 04:21 AM	#736
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Okay, so today I got around to nicking the garden boxes from next door (they're marine-grade stainless steel) and hacking a chunk off one with the jigsaw and drilling a couple of holes to see if I could hook them over the back retaining wall for a herb garden. It works! I've still got to do the rest, buy more if the hooks, and paint them, but we'll soon have the start of a herb garden. The rest, with different hooks, will run along our bottom balcony, possibly with dwarf chilli plants in them: This bit will hold some of the longer boxes (they're all different sizes) and go to that first big pole. The Loved One also put some more postcrete in the holes of the uprights for the new side retaining wall, and we'll probably start on the horizontals on Tuesday. The top garden formed by that will get some hoop pine mulch and some more golden cane palms. Cheers, Marc

06-05-2010, 05:41 AM	#737
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	Herb gardens are the best of all to have. You can pick and pick, always having new growth (if you're lucky.) By varying your ethnicity in food choices, you give your herbs a good rotation of harvesting, so you always have fresh herbs for the meal. The only one in serious demand seems to be parsley, so I have several pots of it growing. Three pots of rosemary, three of oregano, two thyme plants, six basil plants (just because it smells so damn good,) two fennel plants, two dill plants, peppermint, spearment, two pots full of cat-chewed lemongrass, and as of this week, three pots of cilantro. I think I got the cooking herb requirements filled... Time to think about tea herbs. (Note: I freeze a LOT of herbs for winter use.) Stitchawl

06-05-2010, 08:03 AM	#740
beppe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,161 Karma: 81026524 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Italy Device: Kindle3, Ipod4, IPad2	I worked and worked. I have one vegetable box, that's how the green foot above calls them, ready and covered for planting. It has to wait for when we come back from the sea. It will be late in July. I will put on the winter things. The lawns are trimmed. The other box, just needs a little scratching. Now I have to trim to measure a huge bush that occupies half of the terrace and clean the terrace. The garden is becoming nice. We eat outside more and more and LD likes it very much. We set up a little red tent for her where she can take little restoring naps with her dolls. She is adventurous and tries to climb the threes. Her legs are a collection of bruises. Black and blue. Ah!

06-05-2010, 10:06 AM	#742
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,904 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	If you see the Buddha on the street.....SQUASH the Buddha! SQUASH the Buddha!

06-05-2010, 11:19 AM	#746
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,904 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Their is also that tradition in the Navajo Storyteller figurines http://www.pueblopotteryme.com/storyteller2.htm

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