mattie g

Sounds like you at least have success with the tomatoes, so spacing them out a bit is the easy part! I plant eight tomato plants in one of my 16' x 6' raised beds* each year, along with companion plants like marigold, basil. Plenty of room to grow to upwards of 12' tall and quite wide once I stop pruning the suckers. I want to get back to weighing my harvest this year - I'm really interested to know exactly how many lbs of fruits each plant/type produces. This year will be quite different though, in that I'll be starting indoors from seed. I've always ordered my tomato and pepper plants from Lazy Ox Farm (a plug for them if anyone is interested), but decided to go it on my own this year since I have a decent LED grow setup. Fingers crossed on that... * I need to double-check those dimensions

I’ve got a plentiful stash of those beautiful black sirens singing out my name from the basement. Enjoy!

I'm not here to bash models by any stretch, but there's absolutely no reason to put any stock in what ops show at anything more than 120 hours. I mean...even the ensembles appear to be struggling right now and it's questionable to look out more than maybe 180 hours. Too bad I'm bored as fugg since we're not able to go anywhere. I guess the weather isn't totally miserable so you can at least get outside for a bit, but FFS this is just a boring winter.

I suppose we don't even know because there are such big run-to-run changes.

43 and mostly cloudy in Burke. Pretty standard for this January.

Since this winter is done, we might as well start talking about this year's gardens and lawns. I'm getting a good start on the garden since this winter has been so lame. In-ground parsley from last year is still alive. Overwintered spinach is still dormant, but I suspect it'll begin growing in the next month or so. Garlic is much the same, but should start taking off before too long. Thinking about the build for my next raised bed - likely to be where my climbing plants will go (cucumbers, cantaloupes, etc.). All my seeds are on order, and I'll get them started indoors in the next few weeks.

Let me just point out one issue with this post: You identified Ralph along with what you refer to as “really good posters.”

This is more of an exercise to detox (and to prove I can do it) than a weight-shedding one. And if I had time to exercise, I would, because I could probably use it.

4.75” here in Burke.

I hear that. We were tempted, but we fought the urge. Next week might be tough, too, but right now I’m having as tough a time as I’ve had since we started. So bored...

You haven’t had much rain?

Jonesing real hard for a beer right now. Drynuary...I hate you.

And we actually have sun!

Just walked my daughter to have her twice-weekly outside "art class" with another homeschooled friend of hers. As we were walking, the thought "It'll be nice when spring is here" came into my mind.

Yup - here are my notes: 10” from a two-part storm that had WAA snow on Saturday and ULL on Sunday with a reasonable lull in between. Just missed out on the best ULL snows by 20-30 miles to the north.

Great beer, though I feel like it's dropped off a bit in the last couple years. I'm doing Drynuary, so I'm insanely jealous every time I see or hear of someone having a drink.

I challenge you to try. If he keeps trying to blow things up then maybe he'll get 5-posted.

Glue?

But for some reason PSU can't help but converse with him. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Please stop, PSU!

Exactly. The "joke" about COVID that he doubled down on wasn't even close to funny (it was one of the sh*ttiest things I've read on here in a long time), and neither is his consistent drive for attention. I wish people would stop quoting or tagging or even mentioning him (like we are now). Just ignore him.

Temps or precip...doesn't matter if we have one and not the other.