With winter approaching fast, I’m doing a lot of yard work.
I’m eating cherry tomatoes off the vine and am trying to get my rock project,
which I’ve written about with frustration several times, finished.
My best consumer experience: The last of my garden vegetables
I’m enjoying cherry tomatoes this year. They grew very well,
and I’m not dealing now with dozens green tomatoes.
My zucchini plants only grew two zucchinis, one of which
rotted before I could eat it.
It was exciting to come out to my garden one day and see a
good-sized cucumber poking out of the leaves. Cucumbers, along with beans and cherry tomatoes, are the best things I grew in my garden this year.
My worst consumer experience: Buying an expensive lettuce
spinner for my rock project
As I was struggling to get rocks separated from the dirt,
weeds, and straw I’d raked them into, the idea to buy a lettuce spinner popped
into my head. I’d made the mistake of racking the rocks off deteriorated weed
fabric I wanted to replace
After working four hours on the rock pile, I went to Target
at 9:30 p.m. to buy a lettuce spinner. The only one they had was plastic and
cost $35. I thought that was way too much, but I bought it anyway. I had so
much work to do before the fall rains hit, I didn’t want to take the time to do
comparison shopping.
The lettuce spinner worked well – for a while. Although the
spinner function didn’t work with rocks and dirt, the basket itself was a good
at separating the rocks from the dirt. However, when it started to rain and the
clay soil was damp, it didn’t work nearly as well.
