I think our honeyberry bushes are getting confused by the <12hr a day sunlight and warm temperatures … we’re getting flowers?! Picked them off so the plant wasn’t wasting energy.
Category: Homesteading
IBC Lighting
We got a bunch of IBC totes for the price of a single one … storing water during the extra-wet parts of the year should let us get through the extra-dry parts without drawing on the ground water for crops. But the totes also glow in a very cool way when there’s a light source behind or inside of them. These would make pretty cool decorations! (and then I discovered that illuminated IBC tote walls are absolutely a thing someone else discovered)
Autumn Window Planter Box
I saw a really pretty autumn planter box at a local restaurant and wanted to remember it for next year. Could even plant a pumpkin instead of the ivy so the gourd components would be live.
Autumn Ash – 2024
Hazelnuts – Finis
Well, the cluster of five nuts I’ve been tracking are some of the nuts from the ground.
Hazelnuts – Almost Ready
The cluster of hazelnuts I am tracking is almost ready …
PEX-A
We are installing a new water filtration system, and 1″ PEX-A isn’t easy to get into a bend support. First attempt kinked pretty badly — luckily heating it up seems to restore its shape. It’s hot enough when the material becomes translucent.
Tractor Kitten
Hazelnut Progress, continued
Phlox
We have wild phlox that is purple and we have wild phlox that is white. But every now and again we get one that is white with purple stripes, and I love those. Anya dug this one up from the field and planted it in my bee garden last year, and it is huge this year. And still has the striped flowers that I love!
