It’s been a pretty busy gardening week this week. Mainly getting some of the seedlings moved into larger containers and just trying to keep up with the watering and weeding. Two more sets of plants finally germinated; Balloon Flower and Lovage. The Lovage was planted back on May 25th and just sprouted yesterday (June 17’th) – so nearly a month for that one. Two other flats are apparently “duds.” Which may just be due to the age of the seed – Mexican bush Marigolds and Formosa Lily. The soil may be the … Continue reading
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I’ve been very busy trying to get my stuff growing and also helping out with getting other projects taken care of around the “homestead.” Yesterday I finished setting up an irrigation system out in the orchard. It still needs a few tweaks, but I think the “hard part” is pretty much done. That being getting the irrigation valve manifold connected to a timer and water source – and then getting the rest of the piping hooked into the manifold. On the gardening front, a lot of seeds have germinated, and … Continue reading
A little late for a month-end roll-up, but better late than never. Here are the stats for May: Top Posts Home page with 309 hits Gardening Bug with 171 Enochian Tablets… Building Your Own with 117 ScreenShots with 71 EVE Multibox Mining with 41 Almost had a month without an EVE post in the top 5! Early this month I crossed a pretty big milestone – breaking the 20K visitors mark. I thought that was pretty cool, esp. for the semi-regular, somewhat eccentric blog that Lemegeton tends to be. 897 of those hits came in … Continue reading
I’ve planted quite a few things since getting up here to Utah, and just to get the hang of starting things from seed in preparation for some serious nursery work. So far nothing has grown into their first “true leaves,” but I have had quite a few things sprout over the last week or so. Here’s what I’ve got sprouted so far: Alyssum ‘Basket of Gold’ (Aurinia saxatilis) Angel’s Trumpets (Datura stramonium) Hibiscus (Pink, White, Red, ‘Texas Star’) (Hibiscus moscheutos) Hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus) Ma Huang (Ephedra sinica) Things I’ve planted, but … Continue reading
Actually, I’ve been moved for a couple of weeks, but I’ve been so busy getting situated, etc. that I haven’t had much time to blog or do much of anything else for that matter. I spent the better part of the day yesterday just trying to find one network switch to try and better organize my new network set-up. Speaking of the network, I’m going to have to do some optimization in that arena as well. I’m on DSL now (which I had a few years ago down in ABQ) … Continue reading