okay well i have not done a thrift store purchase in a long time and that's not
because i haven't gone to the thrift stores it's because i haven't found anything worth buying
i think a lot more people are frequenting those places and i have not found a nice china mug in
months so uh pretty hard to find good things but a little while back and i just have stashed them i
didn't do anything with them yet i have found some more of these old mason jars and i've always said
that i refuse to pay more than a dollar a dollar fifty a piece i think i've paid as much as two
but uh you find these things in antique shops and they want ten dollars a piece for them and i don't
buy them for their antique value i buy them for their mason jar value and yes you can still get
the rubber gasket for them so amazingly enough i found a set there were six for 4.99
and then i saw some more and then there were some extras where there was no price at all
and so i asked the lady to price them out for me and she decided to give them to me for
3.99 for these which is a dollar a piece which i'm not unhappy with and i had double checked
all the lids and rings and believe it or not these actually came with gaskets now these gaskets are
old and broken and should be thrown in the garbage but i know where to get gaskets and this all of
these are beautiful no chips all of them have the glass lids except for one but i do have extra gas
lit uh sorry extra glass lid so yeah these uh and the fact that they were stored with their rubber
has just kept them in great shape so at this point i'm just going to wash them all oh and probably
put a fresh rubber on them and stash them away until i'm ready to use them
now i can get the rubber gaskets at canadian tire for very little um cost me i think less than two
dollars to get rubber gaskets for all of these so i'm not unhappy with this purchase at all it's
actually one of the better ones like every one of them i checked and they were all in perfect shape
you know that's the thing you're always gonna find some that have chips or something wrong with them
but these are all in beautiful shape so i was happy to pick them up at a decent price
now they don't all have rubber gaskets but most of them do there you see but yeah i would not
use those they're ancient and that one seems to want to stay put i'm going to have to force it off
anyway all these need a good wash right now so well that's it for my thrift store purchase
it's been a long time coming but this one was well worth the money
well now here i am at the entrance to my garden and my beets seem to be doing quite well
and my cauliflower seems to be doing okay as well and that whole little area is interspersed
with dill and i allow it to do that and that long defense there i've also grown some beans
so this is a pretty packed little garden but as you can see i still
seem to have something that has been chewing away at my at my beet plants so
and today i dug up this spinach bed because it all bolted it was way too hot so i did put in
some sweet potato slips i don't know if they'll grow in time and my potatoes are
doing well this is two rows of potatoes and they're growing quite nicely as you can see
and along the fence line here i planted some indian corn or ornamental corn i don't know what
you would call it but it is not it's the colored corn and here is a another row of potatoes so
the first bed had two rows of potatoes and this is another one and along this fence i've planted some
some more raspberry plants they're very tiny and here i have the chamomile
and this is supposed to be my pole being trellis but it would appear as
though the bunnies have been having a field day with my plants yeah gnawing at them and
well hopefully they'll still continue to grow and my cabbage is mostly doing
okay one or two of them have gotten chewed up a bit but otherwise they are doing well
and here is my uh garlic wok and looks looks like i forgot to cut one of this capes off i thought
i had them all missed one but i don't have my cutters with me so that's gonna have to wait
till the next time i come here and my oregano seems to be doing very awesome now that it's
floured i'll give it a little bit more time and then i will be cutting it and hanging it to dry
and here is the celery that i grew from seed and planted i don't know if it'll come up in
time and there's a horseradish bed one of them is starting to come up i did cut all
the leaves off and just planted the root so hopefully will come up and
and of course now uh this is my tomato field and i have over 100 tomato plants here
and they're still quite small but this is ontario and i only planted them about three weeks ago at
this point the ones at the far end are the largest they were the first to get planted
okay and here i am walking towards the back end and i don't want to get
too close to the water because i am watering the plants and i have a camera in my hand so
okay and here is the raspberry patch that i planted last year and it's doing extremely well
this spring i found that something i suspect it was bunnies had eaten them right down to the
ground and i didn't think they'd come back at all but here they are they're beautiful
and they're actually even producing berries which is a bit of a surprise to me
okay and these plants at the back are the first ones and uh they're doing very well and i do not
cage my plants i tie them to a steak now i do focus on allowing the plants to grow upwards
and i take out the bottom leaves and some of the side shoots so that they can focus on producing
fruit and here you'll notice that i have a fresh plant and what i've done is taken a side shoot and
just stuck it in the ground where some animal has decided that i shouldn't plant there and
they've destroyed about five of my plants and i've just replanted with side shoots and
tomatoes seem to be a very resilient plant i just stuck that in the ground and they're
doing okay okay and my rhubarb plant is doing fairly well unfortunately we did have a bit of
a dry spell and i wasn't coming out often enough to water everything but i'm just trying to let
this establish itself but perhaps i'll take a few stocks and that might help it along as well so and
well this is my tomato field and it's coming along quite nicely considering it's only been a few
weeks we're doing okay and i'm quite happy with the results and as you can see we are starting
to get some first fruits and lots of flowers so i'm not unhappy with the state of my garden
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