Tonight we shared a T-bone steak done on the grill, with steamed broccoli and some sauteed mushrooms.
Would the holes in hardware cloth be too small if it was laid right on the ground over the seeds?
Fortunately we don't have to deal with chipmunks, just squirrels, raccoons, opossums, voles and 13 lined ground squirrels (and now a fox is visiting the balcony at night, he likes peanuts!), but last year the squirrels ate most of my wife's gazanias before they could even bloom, in past years they've at least waited for them to go to seed. They seemed to like the borage plants I tried to start last summer, too, though I actually did get a couple of them to bloom. The blooms aren't very big but they're a pretty shade of blue.
Some birds were pecking holes in my tomatoes last summer, I hope that doesn't happen again this year.
Got the rest of the garden in today, 25 tomato plants, 6 broccoli, 2 spaghetti squash, 2 hills of Hales Best cantaloupe, and a hill of zucchini, plus two rows of leeks, around 20.
We had left over lasagna for supper.
Oh dear, that's no fun to lose your plants.
I got two more rows of tomatoes planted tonight, so I'm 2/3 done with the tomatoes. I still have broccoli, spaghetti squash, melons and some leeks to put in, but I should be able to finish most of that tomorrow.
Have you tried them with dried cranberries? I've put them in spice/fruit bars and they were very good.
I replace half of the landscape fabric yesterday with some new 6 foot wide strips, I like those better than the 3 foot wide ones, and I now have more overlap between strips, which makes for better weed control.
I got in one row of 6 tomatoes this morning before it got too warm, I'll put more in this evening and possibly the rest tomorrow.
The last time I made an Alfredo sauce it didn't come out very well, not sure what I did differently or wrong from previous times.
We've replaced 3 disposals in the last few years (all 20+ years old) for all three we went with some higher end InSinkerator models, they're built to last and really quiet. The most recent one is a Pro 750-4 model. The other two are 1 HP models.
I'm tilling the vegetable garden today, two passes to loosen the soil and then at least one to till in the compost that is part of the Nebraska Urban Soil Health Initiative study we're in. Tomorrow I hope to put back the landscape cloth, probably replacing about half of it, and then plant tomatoes and other plants on Monday.
It got down to about 40 last night but the two week forecast doesn't show any lows below the mid 40's, so hopefully it is late enough that we won't get a cold snap like we did last year, a day after the plants went in. :sigh:
We ordered pizza and lasagna last night and had leftovers of both for supper tonight.
I've started the preferment for a batch of semolina bread. (Hamelman calls it a 'flying sponge', it sits for 90 minutes.)
We're having BLT's tonight.
Tonight I had macaroni and cheese while Diane had oatmeal.
We had steaks on the grill, with salad and steamed broccoli.
