My daughters' dresses have been sitting next to the sewing machine for 2 weeks, I haven't finished them yet! I will definitely need to get that done this next week! So far I've cut out most of the pieces (everything but the ruffle and sleeve bands) and I've sewn the bodice fronts & backs together, and the skirt pieces together. I need to attach the skirt to the bodice, add the sleeves, add the ruffle to the skirt, do the front facing, and add buttons/buttonholes.
I also need to make myself a new hat... I got some bandanas (medium-blue) to make it from, we'll see how well it works. I have this pattern from Birch Street Clothing and they have a bandana hat pattern/kit that I am trying to take my "inspiration" from.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Update on the garden
Whew, we have gotten SO MUCH RAIN in the past few weeks! We got around 9" in April, and so far we're up to 7" for the month of May! I haven't had to water the garden in an entire month.
Everything is doing well, except for the lettuce and tomatoes. Something is eating the peppers, the beans, the zucchini (which seems to be their favorite), the cantaloupes, and possibly the lettuce. (The lettuce does not stand up well to our Texas thunderstorms, and sometimes it will be there one day and gone the next, so I assume something is eating it). It's frustrating as heck. I would spray with some insecticidal soap, but... don't you actually have to see the bugs for it to work?? I can find out WHAT is eating the plants, but do I have to spray the bugs themselves? Or will spraying the plants keep the bugs away? (I feel so stupid for not knowing!)
And still, only 3 of my 12 miniature dwarf apple tree benchgrafts have sprouted. It's been TWO MONTHS! I planted them in groups of 3 (total of 4 groups of 3 each, that is) and if only 3 are going to sprout, I don't know what I'll do. It'll look stupid to have a couple scraggly trees there, I'd rather tear them out and move some thing else to there (dwarf fruit trees in containers, maybe), but it'll be a waste of the $130 I spent on those trees.
(Oh yes, I forgot to say... Burpee replaced my lisianthus that had been damaged, and the replacements came in yesterday. I planted them yesterday evening).
Anyway, here are a few pictures. Click for a little bit bigger image. The caption for each photo is just beneath the photo (instead of above).
An almost-ripe dewberry! This thing is huge, it's the size of a quarter!
More dewberries. Awesome! I'll have to keep a really close eye on them as they ripen, and make sure the birds don't get them. (I suppose I ought to have bird netting on hand, just in case).
One of my 4'x4' planters. They're all pretty much the same, except the one that has zucchini & Roma tomatoes (the zucchinis look awful, like I said- something's been eating their leaves).
The pretty purple flowers on my Royal Burgundy bush beans.
Beans!! These are the pods on my Tendergreen Improved bush beans. I think they're supposed to be harvested at 5"-6" long, they're currently about 2" long. Wild estimation, anyway.
Lemons! Looks like it'll be a loooong time before these guys are ripe.
Everything is doing well, except for the lettuce and tomatoes. Something is eating the peppers, the beans, the zucchini (which seems to be their favorite), the cantaloupes, and possibly the lettuce. (The lettuce does not stand up well to our Texas thunderstorms, and sometimes it will be there one day and gone the next, so I assume something is eating it). It's frustrating as heck. I would spray with some insecticidal soap, but... don't you actually have to see the bugs for it to work?? I can find out WHAT is eating the plants, but do I have to spray the bugs themselves? Or will spraying the plants keep the bugs away? (I feel so stupid for not knowing!)
And still, only 3 of my 12 miniature dwarf apple tree benchgrafts have sprouted. It's been TWO MONTHS! I planted them in groups of 3 (total of 4 groups of 3 each, that is) and if only 3 are going to sprout, I don't know what I'll do. It'll look stupid to have a couple scraggly trees there, I'd rather tear them out and move some thing else to there (dwarf fruit trees in containers, maybe), but it'll be a waste of the $130 I spent on those trees.
(Oh yes, I forgot to say... Burpee replaced my lisianthus that had been damaged, and the replacements came in yesterday. I planted them yesterday evening).
Anyway, here are a few pictures. Click for a little bit bigger image. The caption for each photo is just beneath the photo (instead of above).
An almost-ripe dewberry! This thing is huge, it's the size of a quarter!
More dewberries. Awesome! I'll have to keep a really close eye on them as they ripen, and make sure the birds don't get them. (I suppose I ought to have bird netting on hand, just in case).
One of my 4'x4' planters. They're all pretty much the same, except the one that has zucchini & Roma tomatoes (the zucchinis look awful, like I said- something's been eating their leaves).
The pretty purple flowers on my Royal Burgundy bush beans.
Beans!! These are the pods on my Tendergreen Improved bush beans. I think they're supposed to be harvested at 5"-6" long, they're currently about 2" long. Wild estimation, anyway.
Lemons! Looks like it'll be a loooong time before these guys are ripe.
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