Garden Update- Early Fall

Today, I went out beyond the fence and whacked down the high grass. I found no snakes, for which I'm thankful. There were broken hen's eggs in the little stand of pine trees. I should thin out the pine seedlings this winter to about one per foot, and start cultivating them.

The front lawn is now mostly bermuda grass, which is wild in this area. It's really thick and lush, and takes a pounding from the dogs, who love their front lawn.

The section that I reclaimed in the north, out by the road, is now, also a thick, beautiful bermuda grass lawn. If you water an area, Bermuda grass will come, and choke out everything else.

I'm getting a steady tomato harvest, but not a bumper crop. I think my new south bed might need a few years of cultivation before it bears as heavily as the other three beds. I sprayed the winter squash again for powdery mildew, but the nine squash that are developing look fine as do the newest squash leaves.

The Old And The New

I couldn't resist picking up a pocket-full of acorns this evening, while walking the dogs. I'm going to continue to collect them, and then sometime this winter, make some acorn meal. Maybe cook it as pancakes, or mixed with almonds for a pie crust.

I also am starting to build a desktop computer, mostly from parts I've accumulated. I built computers in the old days, but it's not done much anymore. I started with an IBM 8088, and overclocked it from 4.77 MHz to about 6, and installed a VGA graphics card and 5 and 10 meg MFM drives. I thought I was hot shit when I finally built a 386-20 MHz with 40 meg IDE drives. This will probably be the last one for me, and will not be an ultimate machine, but will be faster than anything I have now.