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Bill Jones wrote:

> Finally a few pimentos are ripening, so I made machaca from them.

What's that?

There's no choice but to deal with squash,
> so I made a giant pot of Italian-style zucchini in tomato sauce and 
> canned 14 pints of it.

Recipe, please...
I make lots of zucchini bread and squash casseroles and freeze them.


> The filberts bore a quantity of nuts for the first time, and for some
>  reason the squirrels are incompetent this year, so I cured several
> dozen of them.

How old are your filberts?

I planted 3 Hazelnuts this year.



 Best of all, the seedling (non-grafted, so pot luck) walnut
> had 8 nuts, despite being still small.  That virtually guarantees
> good harvests in years to come.  And my two little cherries, along
> with the larger one by the shed, whose fruits were mostly
> unreachable, yielded about 5 gallons of cherries!

Investigate bush cherries...


 We put lots of them into the rumpot, along
> with many other early berries.  And the grape harvest is more
> enormous than ever, with 3 kinds of table grapes (Canadice,
> Interlaken Seedless, and Himrod)

How do you like the Interlaken?


> Speaking of dry weather, it rained about a half-inch over about one 
> week's time.  That brings our total for the rain year to 71.42",
> which will probably be the final total, since no more is expected
> until after October 1.


Wow.  We only get about 54" here..
> I'm happy to have finished Step 0 (deciding what it is you need/want)
> on several building projects.  In the front yard we're converting the
> old lamp tower to an obelisk, and building a trapezoidal arch to walk
> under, for an Incan theme.  To discourage people from going around
> the archway, there'll be a low trapezoidal sundial to the side.  It's
> design will be truly unique.  The gnomon will be a smaller replica of
> the obelisk, standing apart from the trapezoidal face.  An ordinary
> sundial makes a great calendar in winter and fall, but in spring and
> summer the shadow is so short that you can't easily resolve what date
> it is.  So I had a great idea to position things so that the shadow
> falls in the normal way onto the flat face only in fall and winter.
> In spring and summer the shadow will fall onto the side of the
> trapezoidal block.  Conveniently, the side pattern will resemble a
> plant stem, to go with the flower motif that will appear on the top
> (actually the mathematical curves for each hour of the day that
> resemble flower petals).

I'd love to see pictures of this.  I've been batting around the idea of
a inground sundial and a labyrinth for the garden.  I have several pages
bookmarked, but can't decide on exactly what I want.

Bev

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Bevanron in NW Georgia          EarthNSky Farm  34.498N 85.076W
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