Fifth Avenue Forum

Mines in too. Nice light rain just started to water for me.

12 tomatoes
6 bell peppers
6 cukes
6 leaf lettuce
4 zukes
4 squash
Several bean plants and beets (from seed)

Finished weeding today. Planted a row of sunflowers and a row of herbs: basil, parsley and chives. The tomato/pepper row needs a couple more plants but other than that garden is set.

I also think the potatoes are not dead yet. I think they may pull through

Really good stuff you gardeners. I like it, a LOT!

Any of youins planting any hot peppers?

Really good stuff you gardeners. I like it, a LOT!

Any of youins planting any hot peppers?

Seranno and Chili peppers. Passed on Bhut Jolokia. They are a curiosity, but when they grow, I’m NOT eating them.

I have a few jalapeño plants in, which I'll slice and pickle.

I have a few jalapeño plants in, which I'll slice and pickle.

Sounds good. I'll take a jar.

Jalapeños here too. Will chop them up and use in chili’s and Thai dishes

So bored with absolutely nothing to do that I just finished up a diamond cut on my yard. That's right, I cut the same yard twice.

I have jalapeños, habaneros, poblanos, a cayenne, a Hungarian hot, Thai chiles, super chiles.

I pickle and/or eat the jalapeños and poblanos. The hungarians are great hot banana peppers for stuffing or slicing. The rest get dried and ground and used as spices.

I did Ghost Peppers once and got about 50 peppers from one plant and threw about 49 away. Too hot to do anything with.

Now I want to plant some.

I've been in my townhouse 5 years. Today, I finally finished off the backyard landscaping. The first spoiler is how it looked when I bought the house in 2015.

I took out the inner ring of hedges in February 2016 but I never quite got to the point where I wanted to get grass down. Finally, last November, I decided to rip out the rest of the hedges and leave the trees. It's a lot of physical freakin work to get hedges out of the ground and clear the roots. That left me with just the trees and the wood chips. In the spoiler below is the finished product.
The biggest challenge of the entire project was that the city of Orlando had erected a chain link fence right up against my property line 2 years ago to protect their property of a retention area due to people further down the street dumping stuff over their fence into it as well as keeping trespassers out. Therefore, the landscapers had to take all the wood chips and previous debris in wheelbarrows through my house as well as bringing in the sod and pavers and mulch through the house. Supervisor told me that it's the first time they've ever had to do that.

Nice work

Got 10 tons of screened topsoil coming on Wednesday. Will be relocated via wheelbarrow and shovel. Pray for me.

The beginning of Cool Hand Luke suddenly comes to mind. (The bit after the parking meters)

10 tons is a shitload. God bless you. What are you doing with it?

I just spent 4 hours staking out multiple iterations of 28'x28' squares, trying to lay out the footprint for a playset and border.

Guess which one "we" finally decided on...the first one I suggested, which was initially shot down.

Got 10 tons of screened topsoil coming on Wednesday. Will be relocated via wheelbarrow and shovel. Pray for me.

RIP DDs back and wallet

10 tons is a shitload. God bless you. What are you doing with it?

About half of it will be used to backfill raised vegetable beds dug into our clay/rock hillside before mixing in compost, peat, etc. The rest will be used to level out our yard, which has more undulations than a US Open green thanks to the half-assed nature of our builder.

*excavator

The builder hired the excavator and signed off on a job “done”, so they can all **** off.

YEah my yard is a disaster too. "rough final grade" emphasis on the 'rough' part

I can confirm that 10 tons is a lot of **** topsoil.

It will build character.

I can confirm that 10 tons is a lot of **** topsoil.

I’m curious. How many wheelbarrow full loads did you move? I’m assuming, what, 15 per ton. So maybe like 150 trips??

A real man would move it all in one trip, like grocery bags...