The vegetable gardens in the backyard are producing vegetables and the rose garden some beautiful flowers. This week earlier picked some jalapenos and today some husky red cherry tomatoes and a small beef eater tomato that was barely larger than the cherry tomatoes.
I planted a “red habernero” and green bell pepper plus dill and parsley plants. I put some stakes in and started training the peas, beans and tomato plants. The tomatoes will be producing in large amounts in a week or two.
I also picked about 2 gallons of very small grasses and weeds from the garden along with their weeds.
Here’s some pictures
Newly planted green bell pepper and red habanero.Newly planted dill and parsley next to eggplant, lemon thyme and mint.West side of garden 05/22/2021.East side of garden 05/21/2021.Training bean plants with stakes and garden Velcro.Training pea plants and big beef tomato plant with stakes and garden Velcro.Trussed up husky red cherry tomato plant with stakes and garden Velcro.Holding back best possible with stakes and garden Velcro the lemon tomato plant.Front rose bushes after trimming earlier this week.Both front rose gardens.Another view of the front rose gardens.First harvested jalapenos this year on vine.Clipped jalapenos. Getting jalapenos and other veggies ready for crab boilJalapenos in crab boil.Quickly put together crab boil.
May 17, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on All Songs on Deck Workout Sounds
Been a long productive day after working on items late into the night and morning getting things going on one of my servers so need a patchwork of songs for this workout and all songs are on deck ready to roll regardless of tempo or genre! I have a lineup but in between set will pull whatever I feel into the mix.
Initial look I have a some Pretty Tony, Mark Morrison, Gyptian & Beenie Man, Sister Sledge, Linkin Park, Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak (Silk Sonic ) then whoever I decide to pull into the mix!
May 9, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on As The Garden Grows
The garden saga has most spots in the garden full or ready to be filled with seedlings I currently have growing. I do want to research some herbs and spices that make great teas. I want to make sure that the herbs I plant don’t have a tendency to overrun the garden like mints do.
I added cilantro, Serrano, mad hatter and Ancho chili peppers. I love having a variety to make different dishes but also mke a nice pepper relish like my dad used to make. I added the cilantro and Serrano peppers Saturday and the mad hatter and ancho chili peppers Sunday.
Now most of my gardening will be weeding, re-positioning and maintaining of my drip system. For instance today I switched out a rotating drip sprinkler for a bubbler on a high mount and replaced a bubbler with a down spray sprinkler which I may go to more as they focus all the water down from a nice height instead of sideways with a spray.
I harvested my first tomato of the season and have some jalapeno peppers looking pretty nice that I will pick in the coming week or days.
I also put down some spray grass seeds in my grass strips in the backyard and repaired some sprinklers.
Beef Eater tomatoes reaching that ripening state earlier in the week.Lady bugs getting busy/ mating on squash plant leaf. As I went to video instead of photo they took their action underneath the leaf.This nice Big Beef Tomato was he first tomato of the season picked and eaten, it was delicious.Cilantro plant in the ground folks.Serrano peper in the ground.Wide view of west side vegetable garden Saturday.Wide view of east side vegetable garden Saturday.Sprinkler repair in the strip of gras to the east of my pool.Sprinkler repair number 2 in grass strip on east side of pool. Sprinklers on other grass strip seemed fine.Madd Hatter peppers! Had them for the first time last years and I do like them.Ancho Chili peppers behind the Serrano plant next to my greaps and raspberry.Jalapeno peppers almost ready to be picked.
May 7, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Late Night Work Out Music
This is the reason I’m building up my home gym once again, the ability to work out real late or any time really I am free. This late after 11:00 PM PST is going to be it tonight. Hit some weights and then the treadmill like I used to in my own house.
Tonight no allegiance to genre or date of release just music I want to hear while I work out before and afterwards so there will be some slower mellow music deep into the night as I chill in the after glow of a night time work out!
I may have a little Usher, K,naan, Beach Boys, Mantronix, Da Brat, Beenie Man & Cecile, Janet Jackson and whatever get the feeling for in between work out sets or after I’m done.
May 2, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Sunday Yard Work and BBQ
Getting it done in the backyard fleshing out the vegetable garden plus fed my always yearly beautiful roses in the front yard not the normal rose food but some rose food with something in it to control the aphids. On top of that picked up a nicely priced pork shoulder so put that on my indirect smoker a bit late again but wanted to familiarize myself with the indirect grill using my oak and fruit wood plum and peach logs making some pulled pork.
Sadly pulled up my Thai Basil bush that has been going big and strong the past 3 years and attracted a swarm of bees.
Thai Basil bush all dried up no longer producing.
Moist healthy soil under old Thai Basil bush.
Another example of rich garden soitl.
Newly planted Lemon thyme in front of Georgia Collards and Swiss Chard with gourmet collards just planted today by the fence.Newly planted gourmet collards.Newly planted chamomile next to Mexican tarragon and mints.West side of vegetable garden with my grapes and raspberry trussed and getting trained this year to go up.East side of the vegetable garden.Shot down the short sidewalk in front of my house of my roses.Front yard shot of my roses with neighbors grass in the front yard.Roses and ferns front yard near garage.Roses on opposite side of porch away from my driveway.Pork shoulder with my custom rub.Starting to smoke my shoulder on offset grill.Chimney’s for lighting my wood for offset grill plus propane torch and fire poker.Chimney’s all lit with oak and plum wood.
April 25, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Updated Linux Music Relay Server
I updated the Linux server that hosts ShoutCast and IceCast relays and caused a brief stream outage. This server also hosts my CCTV and one of my Plex Media servers both which I updated the versions on as well with the OS updates. Another update weekend!
April 24, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Happy Streaming Again After Update of Patches
Performed some OS updates on the system that hosts the music and pushes it to my relays for listening pleasure back up and and streaming in a few moments.
April 24, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Plants Added to Vegetable Garden
I added some more plants into the 2021 vegetable garden today. I added baby collard green, swiss chard and mixed greens mesclun seedlings along with starters bought from a garden nursery consisting of egg plants, cucumbers, relleno chili peppers, big bertha bell peppers, black plum tomatoes, yellow pear tomatoes I always plant and some sweet yellow onions I normally stay away from.
Collard green seed experiment. The pack of $4.54 gourmet collard green seeds not growing at the same fast rate as the $1.99 pack of Georgia collard greens.All the vegetables I planned on planting and did plant today.Plants moved near garden for planting.West side of vegetable garden planted with tested drip system.Row of swiss chard and collard greens next to row of squash, cucumbers and egg plants.Row with chives, yellow onions and behind that row of peppers, relleno chili, big bertha bell, habanero and jalapeno.Yellow pear tomato planted today with sage and mint in background.Black plum tomato plant with basil and cherry tomato plant in background.East side of vegetable garden.
April 20, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Planting Bean and Pea Seedlings
I put in some peas and beans into the garden this evening I had started from seeds. Interestingly the mustard greens and okra seeds I started at the same time showed no signs of budding yet. I have some collard greens, mesclun greens mixture and more swiss chard and green onions, plus some peppers I am also waiting to pop up I started in other pots as seedlings after I started these. The collards, mixed mesclun greens and swiss chard seem to be budding and will go into the ground soon.
