August 19, 2016
The last day of my job at the software company I had worked for since March 1998. I had formally resigned a couple of weeks before then.
August 26, 2016
Plot 3: Yesterday I removed the watermelon vines. They were finally starting to create melons, but I wanted to keep up with my rotation schedule. This morning I planted the remainder of the small transplants I had raised in my light shelf:
· Collards “Georgia Southern”
· Cabbage “Michi hili”
· Kale “Dwarf Blue Curled”
· Cauliflower “Chef’s Choice Blend”
· Broccoli “Summer Purple”
I then sowed seeds in the rest of Plot 3:
· Radish “Crimson Giant”
· Radish “French Breakfast”
· Bok Choy “Rosette”
I must not have sowed any beans along the west edge of Plot 2, since nothing at all was coming up. This morning I sowed some old Kentucky Blue string beans there and added southern cowpeas in the gaps in the bush bean rows.
I planted whatever pepper and tomato seedlings I had left in the southern end of the S bed.
August 26, 2016
I moved most of the remaining dirt from the stump grinding and the compost pile into the S bed.
August 25, 2016
I finished clearing out most of the weeds in and around the S bed.
August 20, 2016
Over several days, I pulled out most of the grass and other plants from a five-foot area along the west fence. The wet ground made it very easy to pull the plants, so it went pretty quickly.
I moved the conduit-and-clothesline trellises from the northeast corner of the yard, where they were shaded almost all the time, to the space I created along the west fence.
I then combined stump grind dirt, rough compost, and store-bought compost to make cucumber and cantaloupe mounds. Later in the day, I tried to buy cucumber and cantaloupe seeds, but they were not being sold. The people at Buchanan’s had not heard of planting cukes and cantaloupes for the fall. I was trying to do it because a national gardening group had a planting calendar for Houston that showed late summer sowing times for them. I had some cuke seeds left, so I sowed them. I might plant beans on the big cantaloupe trellis.
