Oh! So this is what's up...
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 4:06 pm
*appears*
I haven't been as active online as I used to be --RL (not PL) gets in the way. But since I just finished moving several cya. of dirt to the beds (one dump cart at a time, just me and 9yr old El Boy), I thought I'd come online to give an update...
--and discovered that things had changed, to put it mildly. So then, here we are.
I'm still down in Zone 9a (I think that's Sugar Land), increasingly devoting time to citrus trees and figuring out what I can plant that the nutria will not try to make their own. The last few years have been substandard tomato years for me, alas. Two years ago I got in a load of substandard dirt (insufficiently composted) that wrecked my spring crop, but produced a respectable number of fall tomatoes. Last year I got decimated by some kind of burn, origins still unknown; that was a shame because I had rediscovered a lost cache of seeds from the 2010 SETTFest and many of them actually proved viable. This year, fresh regular soil mix is topping off the bed and that's about it, and I'm limiting varieties to proven-for-around-here.
I think this is the right place: someone still looks like his cat...
I haven't been as active online as I used to be --RL (not PL) gets in the way. But since I just finished moving several cya. of dirt to the beds (one dump cart at a time, just me and 9yr old El Boy), I thought I'd come online to give an update...
--and discovered that things had changed, to put it mildly. So then, here we are.
I'm still down in Zone 9a (I think that's Sugar Land), increasingly devoting time to citrus trees and figuring out what I can plant that the nutria will not try to make their own. The last few years have been substandard tomato years for me, alas. Two years ago I got in a load of substandard dirt (insufficiently composted) that wrecked my spring crop, but produced a respectable number of fall tomatoes. Last year I got decimated by some kind of burn, origins still unknown; that was a shame because I had rediscovered a lost cache of seeds from the 2010 SETTFest and many of them actually proved viable. This year, fresh regular soil mix is topping off the bed and that's about it, and I'm limiting varieties to proven-for-around-here.
I think this is the right place: someone still looks like his cat...
