foggy morn

wonderfull fog deep and soft


love days and NIGHTS like this

Blessings
Bear

the cave others been before

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Moon Tea

Well it's a full moon and time to make some moon tea.
For you day dwellers this is quite different from the sun tea your Friends have raved about for years.
start with a clean 1 gallon jug place about 12 tea bags (yes I am a teabagger) in the bottom and fill with clean spring water. place this out side in full moon light till the morning and then remove to the back of your cave (56*)and chill.

at your option you can remove the spent tea bags and add to the compost pile after removing the staples from the bags.
at this point it is ready to drink, I like a bit of honey with mine (raw proffered)
I use a black tea (after all I am a Black Bear) and process My tea in full moonlight till I drag my dusty old hide out in the morning.
I process several while the moon shines and keep them stacked in the back of the cave (coldest spot) till needed.
I recomend this process and hope you enjoy it to.

Blessings
Bear

fall colors changing the wall paper out side the cave

chilly day today clouds hanning low

snow clouds for sure

Beautifull

Blessings

Bear

As I promised

Ok as I promised
new crop peas growing on old okra


carrots just sprouting





radishes freshed picked

radish bed

small bucket is basil

Fall gardens

OK well fall is hear (FINALY YAHHHHHHH)
got my didgital cam back from repair "thay gave me a new one " even better than the old one sent in.
will start up loading picts as soon as i can roust my hide from this hear chair.
got some radishes from the garden yesterday "film at eleven " carets comming up slowely and lettice comming along.
more later

Blessings
Bear

OK EVERY BODY second crop is in and sprouting
We will be showing pictures later and hope to start a cold frame soon
looks like peas around okra stalks will work so pictures later
Blessings
Bear

road side

beauty beside the road

road sind by the stratch patch

from momb's window

helping to keep the humming birds happy

time to stop and sniff #1

out the window

bucket list LOL

Have been harvesting cucumbers from the pool for the last week and getting ready to make some pickles

I have grape sized maters in the other pool looks like I may get a BUNCH if the blooms are any indication

okra plants doing good (far right ) and the maters are getting tied to the grading behind them got a lot of base ball sized green on them

peppers are doing good and have 3 more to get planted in buckets soon ( been to darned hot)
hope to get them in good dirt soon
Blessings All
Bear

small harvest but it's fresh

Picked the peas, it is getting to hot for them so cleaned out the bed and put the buckets with the maters in them with one bed getting the okra plants will be interesting to see how thay do in a shallow bed


looking forward to a good harvest

first mater for the season hope to get a bunch more for salsa

last of the squash till fall(to darned hot) and having a problem with blosum end rot so we will play with the dirt and see if that helps this fall

pea time

Blooms on the vines

We got peas in the pod
Pods are just showing a little filling

When plants started up I tied strings to top of grid and draped them down,

then used Popsicle / craft sticks to hold down the ends in the dirt.
So far the strings seem to be staying in place, time will tell.

Got greens ??

So far this has been an excellent try at growing things with minimal dirt.

The watering system is NOT working the way I had intended it to how ever I believe with a tad more pressure it will work better, so next time I'll set it higher up for a stronger gravity flow.

The lettuce did better than I expected and with a bit of rethinking and a small greenhouse could be doable all year long.

"Yeller" squash is doing real well also I will however set up a bit of shade for them next year and with an improved watering system I expect them to really produce.




We have been wondering if we are to close to Oak Ridge (the nuke plant)

gots squash

First harvest



We have a ton of blooms hoping to get a mess this weekend


going to cook them up with a bunch of vidalia onions

hope to have maters in about a week

update

OK after a lonnnnng absence I am updating this

I had some trouble in the transplanting of the started seeds thy ( failed to thrive ) for some reason I am trying something different this time so we will see how thy do

We have squash growing good and I have already had a mess of greens

the watering system is not working as i had hoped so later I'll try setting it up differently

right now for the tomatoes I am using direct water and some sand filled spikes that use a 2 Ltr. bottle

I moved the started Pete pellets directly in to bigger pots and returned them to the plastic shelter and am going to hit them with some fertiliser

Chrissy likes the garden BUT only at night. This is Her coming to get me back in during the heat of the day. well as the Indians say " only Mad doge and English men go out in the noonday sun

Soom of the plants in the kiddy pool

part of the 9 pack of tomaters from a local grocery

Cucumbers in the other pool



Aftre all this is the volinter state ( come up from last year )