is it just me or are the days getting shorter?
summer is here and a young man's fancy turns towards tomatoes. i would call this year's tomato patch decent, not great but it could be worse. i don't know if it's the crappy weather or the new location that's the culprit in the less than stellar crop. maybe a long stretch of hot sunny weather will pick things up or maybe a little fertilizer is the answer.
the declining number of bees isn't helping things either. i was trying to pollinate them myself this morning but i'm not as dependable as a bee so it's a crapshoot at best. speaking of bees, there was a large wasp nest under the eaves of the house. it seemed dormant for the first few months but it started growing and i noticed a lot of activity so it was time to get the ladder and a long stick. i whacked the nest and a shit load of wasps came flying out. i almost twisted my ankle hopping off the ladder which was unnecessary as the wasps didn't get very close to me. but a big chunk of the nest almost fell on me and it had some interesting stuff in it:
yes summer is here and life is good. oh yeah, there's a soccer tournament going on that's pretty good.
i love you sons of bitches.
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PETA would not approve.
You can deter wasps by hanging an old nest from your eves. They're territorial and will not attempt to encroach on an occupied space.
Or so I've heard...
I just whack em with a stick or squirt them with my Splatch.
Leslie posted a response to a recent discussion, but nobody but me showed her any love, so she's keeping quiet.
Go and show her how much you miss her!
i thought harry was shagging her silly.
Have you ever thought of building a greenhouse for your tomato plants? Here's a link I found:
http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/projects/fruit-and-vegetables/how-to-grow-tomatoes-in-a-greenhouse/336.html
Those wasp grub might have made decent mealworms!
A good size chef's salad at the hospital is only four bucks and has half a dozen cherry tomatoes in it and they wash the dishes. Fuck growing them.
gb - in the past few years i had a plastic drop sheet nailed to the fence that served as a poor man's greenhouse for the first month until things warmed up.
bill - i thought you were as one with nature and enjoyed watching nature produce the gift of life. i guess harry was right about you.
Nature does great without me.
Billy, mate, I'm sorry, buddy, but words fail me. At this point in time, I couldn't give a flying fuck about your tomatos, your relocation problem, your fertilizer problem, your pile problem, or any other minor problem you may have, my friend. This may seem a bit callous and selfish, matey, but how the fuck can you drone [ah, yeah, and the global bee crisis] on about such trivialities when we spent no more than eight bloody days in the World Cup. Yeah, laugh like there's no tomorrow, my friend, some might say that such a 'gobby' twat like me deserves such good fortune. Well, that may be true, but words still fail me! :-P
Off to join a Jihad, somewhere! :-P
To You & Yours, I Wish You a Happy & Peaceful 'Starry' Night!
Peace,
Uncle Bulgeria...
yes, the sun has set on the english football empire.
i'm quite sure that our hockey team will not win the championship in my lifetime and you should probably feel the same way about your football team. but the good news is you can sit back and enjoy the greatest spectacle in sports without having to worry about your blokes choking.
i'd give my left nut to see ghana advance but it looks like my left nut is safe for the next four years.
Billy, my friend, the thing I love [in a truly manly way, of course - a kind of 'The God Father meets 'The Deer Hunter' kind of way] about you, matey, is that no matter how low and down I'm feeling, you always manage to make things 10 times fuckin' worse, mate! :-P Nah, seriously, matey, when all's said and done, it's only a game. We partook, lost as usual, and like you said, there's been a few surprises and I'm damn sure that there'll be quite a few more. However, if Germany win, then as soon as I hear that they've reached the final, then I'll alter my will and be done with! :-P
To You & Yours, I Wish You a Happy & Peaceful 'Starry' Night!
Peace,
Steve..
PS And to Harry...you can fuck off before you even say it, mate! :-P
Ciao!
i never thought i'd live to see the day when the yanks would field a better side than merry old england.
I known people trying to pollinate there crops and use a riding whip and hit the plants.
We harvested our spinach anyhow we are in zone 6
i tried using a feather last year but it didn't seem to work very well.
You just shake the plants good to get the pollen to float around.
Why not install an apiary?
Billy, sir, tha needs good old Dartmoor pig manure, matey, the stuff that my trusty old Tammies produce on a mass-scale, daily basis.
And therein, Squire, lies the answer!
FG, always glad to help.
i checked out apiaries a few years ago and decided it was too much work.
and i don't think city bylaws would let me keep a pig. which reminds me of a real good joke.
Billy, mate...and, are you gonna share that 'real good joke', my friend, or am I to forever remain miserable because I may not have heard it before? Or, on the other hand, am I to forever remain happy that I've never heard it before due to the fact that it may not be, in my humble opinion, funny? I dunno, why's life so fuckin' complicated? :-P
To You & Yours, I Wish You a Happy & Peaceful 'Starry' Night!
Peace,
Steve...
from the sopranos:
a man walks in on his wife with a duck under his arm and says, "this is the pig i've been fucking"
his wife says, "that's not a pig, that's a duck under your arm"
man says, "i was talking to the duck"
"That's the first time I've seen a dog walking a pig."
My tomato plants are producing huge...no, I didn't do it this year, I'm a little ashamed.
Soapy water messes up wasps, I usually make a little sign:
"Free Wasp Wash"
stupid bastards fall for it every time.
Let's get back to your feather dance... Did you use two different cartoon voices depending on whether you were giving or receiving pollen?
Billy, buddy, your jokes are as sharp as your ardent wit, my friend. May the 'Lords Of Laughter' recognise your talent, and a such, invite into their mystical circle! :-P
TYAYIWYAHAPSN!
Take Care & Stay Lucky!
Peace,
Ivanho...
Billy, hate to be perdantic, mate, but there should be a 'you' inserted between the words: 'invite' and 'into! :-P
Ciao!
Ivanhi...
tex - those rat bastard wasps are back and have started rebuilding. i might try your soapy 7% solution.
thims - i saw the feather technique on you tube but it hasn't bore fruit yet.
farmer - brevity is the soul of wit. even if my jokes are shitty, they're short enough not to waste anyone's valuable time.
Billy, you sharp-witted fucker, do you always have to destroy words of serious wisdom by reducing them to realms of laughter with the wealth of your vast expanse of wit, my friend. Do you ever take life seriously, or do you loiter around all day enjoying the fuckin' moment, mate! :-P
TYAYIWYAHAPSN!
Take Care & Stay Lucky!
Peace,
Ivanlo...
i work like crazy! dug a little moat around the tomato plants this afternoon.
it'll irrigate them and keep those rat bastard heathen bugs away.
has anyone seen harry?
It probably rains there too much, but diatomaceous earth will help with the bug problem. You'd have to reapply it after every rain though, and it has to be dry to work on the bugs.
Scratches holes in joints of their exoskeletons which allows bacteria to infect them and kill them.
I have not seen Harry, but for all we know Frump has been censoring his comments. That's assuming everyone is on this side of the daisies.
Gardening and dealing with nature. I guess all of us will have to have several life time to get or understand it all.
The one artichoke we have on North side of our place is doing great. Now the four out garden not so....My conclusion they don't like direct sun light.
Coffee is on
Prince Harry's on Royal duties, Billy, mate. The guy's got to earn his keep! :-P
TYAYIWYAHAPSN!
Take Care & Stay Lucky!
Peace,
The Royal Correspondent...
Larvae...geeuz do not be whacking things with a stick. Unless it's a person or geese... lol
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