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Jun

Hard Work Builds Character

   Posted by: MotherHen   in Gardening, Moving House

And, boy, are my kids characters!

Between the 100° afternoons that just won’t go away, and the looming stage 3 water restrictions (which, of course, means a rate hike) we are taking out the garden.

And since we’ve decided not to plant a Fall garden, this is it for this house.  No more gardening here at this location.

Pulling the plants was the easy part.

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We plan on taking the cinder blocks with us when we move, so they need to be neatly stacked out of the way where it won’t be so tempting to climb on them and break them.  Apparently, cinder blocks are heavy.

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As I understand it, soil is also heavy.  Dusty is hauling some of the wonderful garden soil out front to spread around on the “lawn.”

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Dusty, Tex and Tex’s friend are working very hard, tryin’ to get it all done in one day.

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It kinda feels odd to see this going on.  Feels kinda wrong.  But, at the same time, it feels like progress!

Now, it’s time for me to go make these hard workin’ characters some quesadillas!

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3 comments so far

Cyndi L.
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Sorry that the garden has to go but you gotta do what you have to. Question? How did you keep red ants out of the garden? I never gardened in my time in Texas. Too hot and I didn’t want to deal with red ants and scorpions.

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June 26th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
MotherHen
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Well, scorpions are something we will be dealing with once we’re out of town, we don’t have any here. Fire ants are opposed to water, so we water them. If we have any real problems though, we use boiling water and that is a real discouragement. It kills some of them, but, the most of the colony lives underground, and even though most of them are unharmed by the boiling water they seem to take the hint, usually only one treatment is required, sometimes two. Of course we have to be careful of the plants and their roots when we are pouring boiling water around.

June 26th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Ritsumei
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Wow. That’s hard. My sympathies on the loss of your garden.

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June 26th, 2009 at 9:48 pm