I’ve been trying to come up with a post topic for two days. But, shopping for steric acid to make lotion and finding out that 1/2 gluten & 1/2 whole wheat flour plus water does NOT indeed make low-carb tortilla dough, but in fact, makes a springy wad that would bruise a brama bull? Not so post-y.
Maybe I could have used the tortillas for the flops…if I hadn’t fed it to the chickens. It was a pretty good time watching them sling it all over the yard.
So, here’s what I’ve been doing while I haven’t been successfully making anything you haven’t already seen (though I have, strangely, had some good luck with kraut turkey burgers and kraut chili this week.):
I have NEVER been one to buy annuals or flower-dy plants of ANY kind, but there’s more….
And more….
I planted one HECK of a lot of pansies and mums! You can’t see the bulbs and hollyhocks, but there’s a bunch of those too.
Oh, and about 20 vincas under the crepe myrtles.
Man, my back aches…
Ivory
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I love the color of your mums. I have not seen that color here in my neck of the woods. It’s always yellow and orange. Are mums annuals or perennials? I haven’t Googled it.
( I think I planted one a couple of years ago. It looked great the first year but then on the next year it was too tall so they kinda flopped down because of the weight of the flower. I love your flower beds, it’s so neat.
Mums are perennials that bloom spring and fall. I’m supposed to cut them down to the ground twice a year and cover them in mulch to prepare for the next round of blooms. We’ll see how it goes!
At our nurseries we have burgundy, white, yellow, lavender, and orange.
Oh, so that’s the secret, cut it down to the ground. I’m not that much of a gardener but I’m trying. LOL Thanks.