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Cubits
Posted on Feb 3, 2023 3:41 AM

''Change the only constant''

I don't know who said it but I don't like it .When I find a good thing I stick with it and feel a loss when I have to move on.
Cubits has been my home page and
I have kept a garden photo calendar blog on cubits for 13 years now I will surely miss it .

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Fall , September shuffle
Posted on Sep 12, 2022 7:14 AM

No rain this month till yesterday , almost 2 inches of a slow soaking rain (very thankful)
It did however take down the largest sunflowers and cosmos , so I spent the nice cool evening cleaning up and now the house is full of flowers Green Grin!

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The pasture project is filling out with flowers
tall goldenrod in full bloom, and my bees have discovered it

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the late thoroghwort is in full bloom and ''everyone ''has discovered it
the snout has to be a favorite , who can't smile at a butterfly with a long snout nodding
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along with planting out and digging to move for the September shuffle I have started some early clean up on the cooler mornings
much still blooming



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Preparing for the Shuffel.
Posted on Aug 16, 2022 4:57 PM

September is the big shuffle when I move or plant things in their permanent winter home.
I have a long list. Sighing!
clearing some veggie beds
trying a cover-crop of buckwheat.
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moved a tool rack into the garden area

found a great bargain on pots at Lowe's only a dollar

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plenty of flowers for picking
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had to cut back several of the cosmos, just getting to big for the space allotted.

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the pot at the front door has some unusual flowers.


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Bees in the pasture doing well , working hard to fill the top box. Smiling
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Mid August (picking time)
Posted on Aug 8, 2022 8:52 AM

Still hot and humid with not enough rain , but the garden goes on
Picking a lot of veggies
pulled all the onions , as always not near enough .
all the cucumbers except the ones in the greenhouse have succumb to bugs Grumbling like the melons.
Large slicing tomatoes are just hitting full steam ,.....lost a lot of first ones to bugs Grumbling
I am having a sharing issue this year Sighing!
something wiped out All the swiss chard in one night , then came back for my last row of small beets
I am thinking rabbit , my old dog can't make it to the garden anymore, and the rabbits seem to know.

Herbs doing well , and the perennial gardens look good , producing tons of blooms for the bees and me. Thumbs up
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tons of surprise lilies everyehere
I like the scent and have bunches in the house

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skullcap, make a nice cut flower

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the zinnia patch does not seem to have any two alike

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Hot and dry summer
Posted on Jul 16, 2022 6:47 PM

Watering almost every day , we are in a drought -5 inches or more

covered the greenhouse , growing cucumbers inside.

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plenty of blooms

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plenty of daylilies

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