Helper Tree Gets A Major Trim

This tree is over thirty years old but doesn't look a day over fifteen, due
to it's heavy trimming. Otherwise this tree has no business being this
close to the house. Most defiantly a volunteer and as most Camphor
trees here in mid Florida are sensitive to our hard freezes that occur
on occasion. So being on the west side of the house and relatively
close to the house gives it a better chance of not getting burnt by
a hard freeze.

This tree helps me climb up on top of the roof of my house more
confidently than using a ladder. So once every two years It gets a
a trim and shaping to keep it's symbiotic relationship intact. 

This tree has been perched on by many of Spring migrating birds.
Numerous stray cats, that I've seen through my kitchen window
and who knows how many other critters that I've that have gone
unseen.

Big Blue Leviathan Revisited - Day 9

Seedlings VS Cuttings VS Well Established

The race,  a study, what works and what doesn't.

The first set of tomatoes is just about a tie, between the cuttings
and last year's geriatric, relatively speaking, Turkish tomato.
That is until a Hornworm took out a big chunk out of the cutting's
tomato. All but one of the classic signs of this garden pest was
there, until that is, until is was gone. Like to think a hungry bird
spotted it and brought that feast home to it's partner or babies if
it's not too early.

So that makes my established tomato in the front and leading.

My next observation is to see if the seedlings tomatoes catch
up with the cuttings.

Winner of the second round. Plenty of new growth through out this tall
specimen, with the fruits of it's labor at the top. Judging from the size
of it's tomato this would have won the first round.

Stake Em & String Em Up If You Got Em

Yesterday's Epic rain trampled a couple of my tomato seedlings. So it's time
to stake them up. The warm temperatures and what little sun I still have
make these tomato plants grow so fast it's almost like you can see them
grow.

What An Epic Easter Egg - One Epic Downpour Of Rain In The Middle Of Our Seasonal Dry Season

In edition to refilling two fifty-five gallon barrels (manually)
might as well fill up two fifty gallon Hefty garbage cans (manually)
for some auxiliary Dry Season storage and fished out my never used
lids that could of been tossed out many a times, to keep the mosquitoes
out.

Rinsed my dusty car off with the over flow and doused a few 
fortunate few recently planted specimens.

Driveway is sitting in two inches of standing water that
should not last, as the ground sucks up the bountiful.

We Got Them In Green To

Big Blue Leviathan Revisited - Day 6