Laissez les bon temps rouler mes amis!

Not a bad Saturday night in the Backyard if you ask me Sha... Good food, good friends, and chilled Strawberry Blonde. Here's to you folks all across the globe who give me a reason to share our adventures. Salute... May the sun always shine upon your face and may the wind be always at your backs...

Shrimp Creole or Étouffée tomorrow. We gonna be peeling tails all night it seems.

Those 93 Chevy Euro's

Cannot evade the ever so long reaching arm of the law... I just happened to be ringside and couldn't turn down the opportunity for a great shot... Cheers

To see it start to take off...

What a difference two weeks makes! We changed our setup a bit this year to allow for more growth rather than overcrowding. Last years plot turned out incredibly thick and the tomatoes eventually hit about 6.5 feet and were too heavy. This led to 4 plants breaking their big vines and eventually dying as the result. Note taken...

We use a little something special called Maxicrop Seaweed Liquid that the plants absolutely love. I suggest you give it a try if you can find some. You'll see in the last pic that it grows really huge plants from the nutrients in it that are collected from the Norwegian Coastline. This is where mineral rich mountain waters, the Gulf Stream, and the Arctic waters come together to produce the perfect conditions to Ascophyllum Nodusum seaweed. It's awesome stuff!

Here's last years beginning and end pics. It got a little out of control, but man did we turn some veggies out!

Whoa Nelly! I wish you guys all the best in your crops this year. 

Send me pics of your plot and I'll do a post for you.

At first glance...

One of these things is not like the other....

Aim small, miss small

Good things to know 

Pallet Culture

I've made a few knicknacks for my smokin' hot little barefoot gardening squaw over the years from pallets. It's amazing the wood that people just throw away. I happen to be employed at a company that does just that at times and I try to grab it when possible. So far I've built an outdoor coffee table on casters, a oak bar top for Cabin 4B, a 4 quadrant storage box for the garden, and a bad ass Texas Flag. All of it came from free pallet wood. There's tons of the stuff out there if you know what you're looking for. I suggest some of you grab a few and experiment with them. After all,  they're free right?

There are several things that you should learn about pallets before you start filling up your truck bed and hauling them to the house to build your dreams. The purpose of pallet markings is to communicate information about pallets or the timber from which they are constructed. Wood markings can indicate the grade of lumber as well. The standard is a 2 letter country code (xx), a unique number (000) assigned by the International Plant Protection Organization (IPPO), HT for Heat Treatment or MB for Methyl Bromide, and DB to signify debarked. I do know one thing for sure, and that is to make sure you use heat treated (HT) pallets rather than Methyl Bromide (MB) fumigated pallets if you are going to grow anything consumable in it. You've been warned. If you don't see an IPPC logo on it, don't use it. There is no telling what's in it. Basically, if you are going by what I've told you and you don't make a damn butcher block out of pallet wood, you're probably cool with using them for just about any project.

Now, get to building neat stuff and send me pictures to post!!!