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Nice video!

First, I don’t till (though I suspect most don’t), and I also pile all the fall leaves in the yard on the garden, and I mean it’s piled. It’s about two to three feet of dry leaves that compacts to about a soggy inch by spring. Then, even before I plant, I bag my lawn clippings as mulch. I usually get to August before the lawn clippings are too scarce to keep down any weeds, but by then everything is so overgrown that it’s pretty shaded. Thanks for noticing!

It’s going to be a good week for the gardens around here. Ours is looking good. This is the main garden but all the other stuff is doing well also.

Minimizing the grass area is right in line with my thinking. He’s got some large trees on the property that shade a pretty much a large dirt area. I was going to suggest mulching a pretty large area and putting it in some azaleas and other plants that tolerate shade, and maybe a swing set or something for his two young daughters. There is a smaller lower area that gets plenty of sun and does seem to have better soil because what is there does at least grow. He will definitely put in some type of fire pit. As we get closer to September I’ll post a few pictures and ask for more suggestions. By the way, when I lived in Arizona for a short time, I loved the look of the hardscapes. You should go all NPZ and plant cactus.

Moving this over here, but a friend of mine is moving back from England after a three year placement and bought a house in Severna Park. He’s been delayed because of the virus so I’ve been cutting his “lawn” the past couple of months, and it’s a wreck. The soil there seems really sandy and dry. I’d have no idea what grass to recommend when we aerate and seed this fall.

Knocking on wood as I type this, but the garden is looking really good so far. A lot of green tomatoes already set, and several varieties of peppers too. The mystery squash plant is going crazy (by how much it’s running, I’m assuming it’s a decorative gourd that rotted last year), but the pumpkins haven’t taken off yet. Hoping to have about six sugar pumpkins by mid September for brewing. If not, I may have to go steal some from @frd one night.

Got severed. Lots of thunder, lightning, and rain, but nothing too heavy.

Like someone flipped a switch.

Same as WxUSAF here. No rain now though.

Not much wind here. Lightning, thunder, and heavy rain. It looks like about .75" so far using my low tech "binoculars looking at the rain gauge" method.

I'm guessing that could be good because we might get the storms in before sunset?

That's really cool. What veggies have you grown there?

I don’t mind admitting that I had to look up hugelkultur bed. Very cool.

I prefer bush beans because the climbing varieties overtake everything. I’ve got a lot of climbers from last year germinating in the garden that I hate throwing away so I’m moving them to a setting on the other side of the yard where they can do whatever they want.

We need an F U button.

This is some bullsh*t, Cutty.

Still quite a bit of showers and non severe thunderstorms to the southwest to pass through. Good sleeping weather.

You can’t hog all the cool weather AND the rain. And where is Mattie?

He’s just smarter than us.

Happy B-day, BM!

Avery is awesome.

I read awhile back about a December start to next year with a full season and no all star break.

Something has to be up with baseball. The Os released 30 some players so contracts must be getting done. I'm hoping they still have the playoffs. The good news would be that with a bye, the Caps can’t get bounced in round 1.

I wouldn’t upset anyone if I dropped by some afternoon or evening?

What an absolutely amazing weather day. Totally perfect. @Eskimo Joe and any other fishermen... Any good ponds In the area that you can recommend? Totally catch and release unless it’s snakehead.