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Can't get you out of my head...  Astronomy Domine...   The first version I ever heard was the Ummagumma version... :

One of those you gotta hear it.. in Quad.. 

Last year to this year and beyond..

The plants that were planted last year were these.. The containers choice tomato variety I had one the year before and another.. In the Earth box planter and what I have learned from having this device is because the plants are relatively too close to each other that you need to have two of the same variety or they can cross pollinate and then you get a secondary variety, or third.. Whatever.. These can cross pollinate which can happen in a garden setting as well but not are much... The Earth box planter is more set to grow the plants at  a normal rate with the self watering that they can do.. Set to evaporate through the planting mix.. This year I didn't stake them or cage them and the main reason was because this year they were patio planter variety which simply put means they are made to grow in a patio planter...   Hence the name, and my memory from having this variety before was they didn't need caged but this year they should have been, and so I did stake them in July and they grew together in a funky looking single looking creature tomato.. Note to self, cage them.. 

There was a variety along the fence this year called Beef Stake and it grew quite well and produced tomatoes that were quite large, in fact the biggest I have likely ever grown.. So next season I am thinking this could go into the Earth box planter, and might even just be the one single plant in there.. I've never grown a single plant like that before, the instructions call for two plants, one in each corner of the box as far away from each other as they can be set.. Most plants now say 24 to 36 inches apart and after this year I think the three feet is the better distance as this year was completely bigger than ever before..

The black krim was last years trial and error tomato variety.. I don't mind trying a different variety tomato every now and then, some work out and some don't.. I had this variety and another about like it, and only one grew and produced very large and somewhat quite deformed tomatoes.. So deformed at one point they looked like a boxing glove.. They were very tasty but were hard to judge when they are done.. As with the stripy variety one year or the yellow, that when they are done you get caught off guard  and surprised that they are in fact done..  It also didn't help that last year the pumpkin variety (giants) invaded the cage where they were growing.. This messed up the growing pattern.. I think I only had at most five tomatoes from this plant, while others did ripen they got gotten by something else either a bird or some unwanted predator...  So they got tossed in the compost tumbler..

This year these three as well as the beef stake variety.. The beef stake was in the fence planter by itself taking a twenty foot area to itself.. That is the reason if I get it for the Earth box it might be alone in there because of it's sheer size potential.. The Better Bush was alright.. It produced fairly large fruits and they were very tasty.. The Tidy Treats were cherry tomato variety and mom likes these so I get a cherry variety every year for her, then the Roma variety is for me.. I had two but only one produced very well at all..    And I was going to get a moby grape variety as it is bigger than the cherry variety and I like those more than the cherry, but i never got to it this year.   They all produced quite well through the first early frost which was...????   No idea when first frost was, and actually as I was cutting the vines up yesterday they still looked like they hadn't had frost yet.. In fact the watering was shut off just after the first of October.. The Earth box was given it's final watering the first Monday of the month.. Most of the time this can be hard to judge when to stop watering the Earth box but this year.. I could have kept filling it up.. When I took care of the vines there in the garden area I dumped the Earth box as well and usually there is still water in the basin but this year it was dry..

This year I took everything out of the compost tumbler.. The reason??  I never have had it be dry through winter.. Usually I start a batch of compost and it usually is the tomato vines and the pumpkin vines and the pumpkins as well..  This year I pulled the vines out, tilled that area and then put the tomato vines there and covered them with leaves..  Usually I bury them and then cover that area with leaves..  This should be different.. Interesting.. 






The pumpkin top with the $.50 price tag was just to show the price and these were planted this year as a way to show the price was very cheap.. Not the three or four dollar variety that is more impressive because they are more expensive.. I'm a little leery about pumpkins anyway, while they seem to grow fine I have had varieties that grow fine then rot on the vine.. This years were fine but average size about between ten and twenty five pounds which is small and I took a huge chance growing them in the gas meter planting area.. took a chance because the pumpkins that I normally grow are the giant variety and usually take as big of an area that they want, causing a natural barrier which was fine last year..  keeping the little kids in the yard.. This year not so much.. 



So what will next season bring?? I always think well let's try something new.. The gas meter planter is being converted back to grass.. The reason??  It was just an experiment mostly.. I just wanted to see if that area would support a garden of some sort and it did but it was so weedy.. As with all of the gardening area and I don't plant in rows but rather just an area type of thing.. Might be better to plant in rows.. not sure, but grass right there and we have trees coming in sometime and so a tree will be planted there.. The ally planter was left empty this year for the reason of not knowing what I wanted to plant there, and I wanted to till it and keep it bare.. It is now set for the hedge shrubs that I have planted enmass from seed.. And the trees will be planted there as well..  The old pumpkin planter area will maybe have ..  ?????   Not sure... Next year the Earth box will have tomatoes again, it has to be cleaned extremely well otherwise it won't support life at all.. That two years and rotate shouldn't be the way it is with the Earth box because I never use the same soil every year.. In fact it is usually store bought except this year it was partial ours and partial store bought leftover soil fro two years ago..

the spirit of the czar

In a world where reality clashes with..

Hunger...  

Sunday Morning

Persistence of memory

Favorite song time here

Logos (velvet Part) always starts depressing and then this happens...  That hair rising on the back of the neck... Yep...

Speed of Echoes

The Right to vote versus not bothering

http://qpolitical.com/24-hours-after-last-nights-debate-mike-rowe-makes-a-huge-confession-on-what-he-see-wrong-with-this-election/

Mike Rowe..  I trust him to deliver the goods about voting.. Like I said in another blog, this site might not be seen until...  quite later.. Not sure when.. Should be before the election but so far I have no idea what this will be like.. trying to decide if my other blog, the thad one (renamed before this one gets up and going)   is there.. Might try to make it something different.. It was political horse shit and really my biggest fear in July when I really redirected it to be more political than anything.. So..  What will this site be..  It is whatever it has become but with a name like it has, it's got to be odd.. Wouldn't you say?? 

The photo album upbeat version

Rock and Roll all Nite...  And Party Every Day...   The version to end the anniversary  of my niece passing away..  Would she have liked that being a backing track for this??  Originally I had no idea where to post the video..  posting on her memorial page was an afterthought, but.  And then posting it here while this blog still isn't live and not knowing if or when it might be live...  Oh well.. waste of time but.. Our upload speed is almost light speed now..  I'll do that...

Oriental haze

the photo album mellow version

The song(s) placed to this, had I thought of it this set might have gone to another video last year but I really couldn't think on that project.. I was just lucky to get anything done..  But this is a nice version.. I liked it, the video was done after my uncle had wanted the pictures to this photo album.. I copied them and sent them to him and then held on to them to decide what if anything to do with them..  and then this video happened...  And i was happy for a few hours anyway..

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