Jeff's been busy cleaning the gutters and setting up the rain barrels. Of course, it hasn't really rained since he did it, but he's ready when it does!
He read...on-line... about a new version of 'compost tea' so he decided to try it. It's more like instant tea...just put a couple of handfuls of compost in a bucket and add water. 
He let them sit over night in the garage and them watered the garden...and used what was on the bottom as mulch. This smells as much as the regular compost tea does but the "teabags" have to dry out before he makes a batch of that. He did hook up the aerator...and it's bubbling away in the teabin.
The potato boxes love any attention they get. After the compost mulch, Jeff 'hilled' them with leaves and it seemed the plants grew a couple of inches overnight. He's got several different kinds
harvest. Jeff also put in a variety of peppers and he just started buying flats of sweet corn. He finally found some pole beans and planted those last night. The flower rockets in the top steps of the corner boxes are doing well, too. Can't wait until they flower!
The fashion show in Cooperstown had great results for us. The model took home the bracelet she wore because her grandmother bought it for her, the shop 'paid her' for modeling with a gift of the shrug...which made her happy... and another woman who had been at the show came into the shop and bought another shrug and the sundress it was shown with. That's 2 sold shrugs for me, l sundress for Sharon and the bracelet for Anita. I guess we'll do the show again next year!
My PC is totally dead leaving me with my net book which has a screwed up caps lock key and faulty punctuation...and no audio. At least I can read emails! So I'm at the library writing this entry. Guess I'll be doing this once or twice a week for a month or two or until I get a new PC. Oh, well, life, huh?!?
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