Looks great, the ducks are a nice touch too. I'm waiting for someone to make pavers out of these two tiles:
Im suprised that the people there who are struggling with bills are not using all their land to grow fruit and vegetables and even have a few chickens
Nice work Zap! You got a pet duck? My sister had a goose, it was like a pet dog around the place until some bastard stole him from the yard.
You'd think right? Maybe they don't recognize anything that isn't deep fried and covered in sugar as edible? Yup got 5 duckos. They provide the comedic relief. I like that pattern Mark. Probably could get molds made and pop out pavers.
My family has gone full hog wild in Kentucky. Pigs, egg layers and meat birds. The stuff coming out of the garden is incredible. The meat birds stink like hell! They put 50 of them in a cage on wheels called a chicken tractor. They drag the thing through the yard every few days. One got run over so they ate it. You don't realize how mushy store bought chicken is. It's more flavorful too.
Oh I bet! I've been enjoying my harvests. Got enough garlic and tomatoes already for the year. Still have sweet potatoes from last year... and ginger. More produce coming in. And the grapes and fruit trees are nearly ready too. Another month and a half and we are good to go.
I hear garlic is real easy to grow... Got any tips I can pass on to my sister? I flew the Salinas rodeo recently and stayed over in Gilroy. I swear the airplane still smells like garlic! Not a great smell when it's 105 outside!
Hmm. For garlic basically plant the biggest cloves you have and eat the little ones. Plant oct/nov and then harvest mid June. You need to also pick the scapes (flower stalks) which you can eat or make pesto sauce from when they have grown to 1.5 spirals. This is about 3 weeks before garlic is ready to pick. You pick garlic when about half the lower leaves go brown (the last 4 to 6 pairs nearest the ground). Then you gotta hang them up out of the sun and cure for 2 weeks before bringing them in. I grew red chesnok which are a bit milder and are a hardness variety (have a scape/flower stalk), also grew german garlic which is a stronger tasting larger bulb without a scape flower also called a soft neck. The German ones were attacked by onion maggots which ruined about half the bulbs. So that was disappointing. Red chesnoks had no issues
There are two types of garlic, hard neck and soft neck, the one Zap is referring to is the hard neck, it's what grows best in most areas of the U.S. If you're buying garlic with the intention of planting some of the cloves, look for the heads of garlic that have a stiff stem coming up through the center of the head. The super cheap imported garlic you often see in the grocery stores is usually the soft neck.
Added more path. 2.75 pallets of brick laid out of 14. Slow but steady. I might try the diamond saw tomorrow slice bricks and make a nice edge.
My workshop suffered from too little storage space for all my tools and supplies so I built some drawers on sliding rails for one of my workbenches and got lots of plastic kitchen containers and boxes for little parts. Pretty happy with the results. Maybe now I won't need to remember how deep I need to reach in to pull out what I need from the pile...
I loved the above drawers so much that I decided to make six more for my wood working bench. I just can't believe how much of a difference having drawers makes to keeping things neat and organized. I should have prioritized this years ago. I've been miserable with cluttered work bench tops. I am waiting on the slide rails to be delivered so I can install them. Probably in the next week or so. Very exciting!
Mounting these things took forever. So many tiny measurements and adjustments, alignments, etc. I also had to finish rebuilding the table, putting in cross braces because whoever made it originally before I inherited it did a pigs ass job. 3 more drawers to go tomorrow but the 3 drawers I mounted open nicely.
Just finished installing the drawers. These things literally took me forever. I had to contort myself to crawl underneath the table to screw in the shelves. Anyway it's done now. Gonna pack the drawers with tooling.
Are those drawer handles just temporary placeholders for some far more artistic and investment cast bronze handles
