They measure an average of 8" tall and look so healthy. I'll be putting them outside for a few hours at a time over the next few weeks and then it's planting time.
Gosh, I can't wait to see what lovely fruit I get this year.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Tomato Plants
If you remember back on April 6th, I mentioned that I transplanted nearly 50 tomato plants that I had started from seed. Well, it is now April 23rd...17 days later and look at these little beauties now.
They measure an average of 8" tall and look so healthy. I'll be putting them outside for a few hours at a time over the next few weeks and then it's planting time.
They measure an average of 8" tall and look so healthy. I'll be putting them outside for a few hours at a time over the next few weeks and then it's planting time.
Monday, April 19, 2010
May the Mower RIP
I had a push-mower for nearly 4 years when it shot craps on me in early Spring of '09. It was a great mower and I hated to see it go; but we put it through hell (cutting a 1/3rd acre) every summer for 3 years.
I bought another mower and the 2nd week of using it, I wasn't paying attention and ran over a piece of pipe that previously held an enormous light post. In my defense, the pipe was hiding under foot tall grass. The blade stopped immediately and I freaked out. I gave it 10 minutes and upon restarting it, the mower was never the same.
It vibrated so violently that one could only cut grass for 5-10 minutes before having to take a break as your hands would hurt so bad. Partner that with my uneven ground and you can imagine the toll it took on the mower. We had to reweld the left front wheel several times over the course of the summer; but it hung in there the rest of '09...sputtering along. On Saturday, I drug it out of the garage for the first time this year, gave it a tune-up and said a little prayer.
Well, 95% of the way through it had had enough. The right front wheel popped off. We drug it into the garage and knew that it's time had come.
Sunday we went to Lowe's and I bought this beauty.
It's a Troy-Bilt, certainly a little more "high-class" but for the price $199, I couldn't pass it up.
It literally took 10 minutes to pull it out of the box, unfold the handle and tighten everything up.
Mower Oath (holding up my right hand): I promise Troy-Bilt Mower, I will try and take better care of you, as I wish us to be best of friends. I will refrain from running over metal pipes, stumps and anything else that may cause you harm.
I bought another mower and the 2nd week of using it, I wasn't paying attention and ran over a piece of pipe that previously held an enormous light post. In my defense, the pipe was hiding under foot tall grass. The blade stopped immediately and I freaked out. I gave it 10 minutes and upon restarting it, the mower was never the same.
It vibrated so violently that one could only cut grass for 5-10 minutes before having to take a break as your hands would hurt so bad. Partner that with my uneven ground and you can imagine the toll it took on the mower. We had to reweld the left front wheel several times over the course of the summer; but it hung in there the rest of '09...sputtering along. On Saturday, I drug it out of the garage for the first time this year, gave it a tune-up and said a little prayer.
Well, 95% of the way through it had had enough. The right front wheel popped off. We drug it into the garage and knew that it's time had come.
Sunday we went to Lowe's and I bought this beauty.
It's a Troy-Bilt, certainly a little more "high-class" but for the price $199, I couldn't pass it up.
It literally took 10 minutes to pull it out of the box, unfold the handle and tighten everything up.
Mower Oath (holding up my right hand): I promise Troy-Bilt Mower, I will try and take better care of you, as I wish us to be best of friends. I will refrain from running over metal pipes, stumps and anything else that may cause you harm.
I "heart" St. Louis Fashion
This would be why nothing much has been happening around my house and why my grass is a foot tall.
Fashion & Flash hits the runway May 1 Newsroom Washington University in St. Louis
Fashion & Flash hits the runway May 1 Newsroom Washington University in St. Louis
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
The DressForm and the Wardrobe
Here's a quick pic to show you where the wardrobe I bought from Craigslist ended up. It's got a new home in my studio. Although it's not an enormous piece, it sure fills up the space.
I haven't decided exactly what I'm going to use it for; but for now at least it has a proper home.
What's growing in the basement?
No, this post isn't about mold...it's about my garden. Okay, so it might be strange to be talking about growing my garden in the basement; but for those of you who start seedlings, you know what I mean.
I didn't document the entire process; but I'm sharing with you some photos I took this weekend after transplanting nearly 50 tomato plants. I have nearly 50 plants because I started a mere 18 different kinds of tomatoes. I have everything from cherry to beefsteak sizes and colors that range from creamy white to blackened-red and even some striped ones thrown in for the fun of it.
Although as I explained several times over the course of the few hours it took, transplanting really sucks. It's not the painstaking work of lifting out each plant and giving it a new home, it's the guilt of playing God and deciding which to keep and which to toss in the compost pile.
Here is a close-up of one of the little beauties now.
Here's some of it's buddies...
While last year's trial of growing lettuce was a huge disaster, I convinced my Dad to give it another try this year. This time the lettuce looks much better then the sickly ones we bought at the last minute. I'm keeping them under the lights for a little while, so I can freshen up the garden beds outside.
Of course I had to expand my garden to account for all of the new things I wanted to grow this year and in the future. My Dad built a big raised bed for me this year, giving me another 30 sqft of growing space...that's on top of my 48 sqft from before. Yet, I have one entire bed of strawberries...at least I hope I do. I've started seeing some green leaves pop out of the ground, I just hope they overwintered okay.
How is your garden season starting...off with a bang or with a nearly silent phff.
I didn't document the entire process; but I'm sharing with you some photos I took this weekend after transplanting nearly 50 tomato plants. I have nearly 50 plants because I started a mere 18 different kinds of tomatoes. I have everything from cherry to beefsteak sizes and colors that range from creamy white to blackened-red and even some striped ones thrown in for the fun of it.
Although as I explained several times over the course of the few hours it took, transplanting really sucks. It's not the painstaking work of lifting out each plant and giving it a new home, it's the guilt of playing God and deciding which to keep and which to toss in the compost pile.
Here is a close-up of one of the little beauties now.
Here's some of it's buddies...
While last year's trial of growing lettuce was a huge disaster, I convinced my Dad to give it another try this year. This time the lettuce looks much better then the sickly ones we bought at the last minute. I'm keeping them under the lights for a little while, so I can freshen up the garden beds outside.
Of course I had to expand my garden to account for all of the new things I wanted to grow this year and in the future. My Dad built a big raised bed for me this year, giving me another 30 sqft of growing space...that's on top of my 48 sqft from before. Yet, I have one entire bed of strawberries...at least I hope I do. I've started seeing some green leaves pop out of the ground, I just hope they overwintered okay.
How is your garden season starting...off with a bang or with a nearly silent phff.
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