Gardening in a Kilt (Buzz Kidder Canvas)

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Yeah, I have to admit the use of volcanic energy is pretty dang cool

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Yeah, I have to admit the use of volcanic energy is pretty dang cool

I don't know a lot about that. You would think we could use the solar and stuff out here, but it doesn't quite work out. It probably would if the area were just being settled. Still I don't know a lot about that stuff either. I'm just a grizzled hermit in a kilt.

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In that picture, I am holding my favorite garden tool: the mattock. Also, these are the type of ankle-strap sandals that I prefer to wear with my casual
kilt. It is the desert after all.


** Moving this here from my post in another thread.

I mostly just checked plants today. Some of the tiger aloes are blooming, as well as the tiger jaws. The fig trees have lost all of their leaves and are ready to transplant and also take cuttings. I always start several fig trees (Brown Turkish Figs) and then give them out to people. I do the same with all my plants that can be rooted without grafting them onto a rootstock like the grape vines and so on.

I was wearing the usual BK canvas and the socks I talked about before. There is a tendency to bend down and pick things up off the ground that I have to be on the gard against. I try to keep that in mind all the time though and I've stopped myself just as I start.

Mrs. Marmalade said she would be starting the marmalade making soon, and it will be picking time.. I will try to get her to bring her camera and get some pictures of a little bit of kilted gardening.


String, I am going to talk Mrs. Marmalade into adding a little honey to the marmalade. Neither she nor I have or handle bee hives, so it will have to be store bought honey for now. There is an issue out here with the Africanized bees. From what I understand, the bee handlers are trying to breed them back with the European honey bees in some way to calm them back down. I don't know enough about this to speak on it; just that the bees and other buzzies love my citrus and other plants.


Guess I do feel a little more at home with garden stuff... Kilt or no kilt, LOL! To end the day, my florabunda rose bush is blooming quite well. The roses end up as sulcotta tortoise food though.

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Those sandals I am wearing in the picture are dressey slides and I normally wouldn't garden in them.