Making leaf mulch

Raking up leaves from around the neighborhood and shredding them.

This is what one truck load shreds down to.  This is a 4x4x4 foot box.

Replacing tanglefoot on orange tree

Just now noticed ants in the orange tree. So will replace the tanglefoot. It seemed to work well last time so I will do it the same way this time.  i put the tanglefoot in the same place as last time.


I also cut off one large unproductive branch.

Garden progress update

The beans are hard to harvest because you have to reach your bare legs and bare arms past the zucchini branches which irritate the skin.
The fig tree the back is still looking very wimpy. I have been watering it more and it seems to be responding well.

Fed veggies

Fertilized all vegetable beds in front and back to eating asparagus.

The squash I planted in the bed second from the garage.

Melon patch

These are in plot two from garage

Starting seeds indoors

I used the Burpee 72 cell seed starter kit. I read that this was a good way avoid any damping-off problems.

I am hoping that the fluorescent lights will be just warm enough to keep the seed tray at the right temperature. The seed tray is setup inside the house.