What did you do in your garden today?

[gary350]

@gary350 , are those condos backing up to your property? bet they are jealous. Awesome size veggie plot. I don't have a large direct sunny area. At best I can place a large pot is a small sun area and put a tomato plant in. However, with all the Amish about us, and the two of us, we get plenty of veggies.

Houses behind us are HOA they built 50 houses in that farm field 5 years ago. All the houses are 38' wide 42' long = 3192 sq ft including 1st & 2nd floor. Inside floor plan is different on every house. The house directly behind us has 6 bedroom I think there are 9 Mexican men living there now. They are construction workers they leave when the sun comes up and return after dark, they are very hard workers. 1 men said, he is staying for 6 months and sends all his money home to wife an children. He said, he makes more money in 6 months than he can make in 10 yrs in Mexico. The man that owns that house rents out the rooms. Developer is going to build 480 new houses in another farm field.

The woman in the house to the right spoke to us 1 times 4 years ago she came to the fence I thought she was going to say Hello but she said, Your yard hurts my eyes you are going to do something with it aren't you? Wife was quick to say, we are building a chicken coop right next to this fence. The woman was quick to throw her head back and walk away. She is a Typical HOA person they think they are better than us. They put up a 6 ft tall fence so they don't have to look at our garden. Snooty people keep to themself.

The people that live in the other 2 houses to the left won't speak. More full blooded HOA people.

Our neighbor hood has been here 45 years we are not HOA. The original house that was on our lot burned 9 years ago. A contractor built a new house and we bought it. Lots of very nice people in our neighborhood we all wave and talk to each other. 4 people on our street have a vegetable garden. Man across the street has a garden slightly large than mine 30'x70'. We talk to everyone on our street all the time everyone is very friendly.

 

[Sean Regan]

Nothing in ours, but we cleared the last of the branches, in the garden between ours and another neighbour's. The guy between us is in a long-term hospital facility.
I noticed the little phlox plug plants on the shed window sill are starting to show little purple flowers.
A week ago, as here, there were none.

Trafford Borough Council has sent a letter advising of the community charge increase.
The "good news" it will only be 7.5% (The maximum they are allowed to raise it is 7.9%)
The "bad news," is that we will now have to pay £50 a year for the green, (garden waste) bin to be emptied each week. This will bring the charge up to err.. 7.9%
Strange that isn't it?

 

[Esther Knapicius]

@gary350 see your from Middle Tennessee, have cousins live in Cleveland, Tennessee. They moved there about 3 years ago from Washington State, the politics there were nuts, and crowded. One cousin left up there in Washington State, all the rest moved to Tennesse and north Georgia. Easier for us to see them at Thanksgiving. All 16 of them. Fun.