August Avatar: What is going on where you are?

**Scorpio Rising** 8/1/2016, 8:39 pm

OK, August is here! Lull month for much of us as far as planting...but still lots happening! And we all are in different stages of the game!

What describes your August?

**Scorpio Rising** 8/1/2016, 8:45 pm

My first ever year growing melons! This here is a Minnesota Midget, in a container on my South Annex, LOL. I have Blacktail Mountain watermelons, also in the annex, and Sakatas Sweets (musk) in the tomatoe and pepper 4x4.

I have never tasted a homegrown melon in my life. Hope this is my first of many! sunny

countrynaturals 8/1/2016, 11:34 pm

I'm doing better raising butterflies than I am raising veggies, so I'll leave my new avatar alone. Rolling Eyes

BeetlesPerSqFt 8/2/2016, 7:44 am

I like Suz's spin. I 'grew' fireflies this year, and since they are still out and about (and, yet, on the blink!), and they are beetles...:
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**AtlantaMarie** 8/2/2016, 8:20 am

My avatar fits in with any weather, so I too will leave alone...

Besides, it goes with my cracked sense of humor, lol!

**Scorpio Rising** 8/2/2016, 10:08 am

Love it!

yolos 8/2/2016, 10:12 am

The Avatar is really too small to see this picture but it is a picture of my Lady Cowpeas almost ready to harvest. Cowpeas in abundance in my late summer garden here just below Hotlanta.
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landarch 8/2/2016, 1:56 pm

I hope rain, cooler temps, and lower humidity...deciding on what plants to rip out to make way for fall crops. Need to learn a bit more about season extension in case I get a late start on a few things.

CapeCoddess 8/2/2016, 3:17 pm

Thanks SR, for remembering to start this thread!

Cape Cod in the summer time means LOBSTAH PARTIES! So I get all my co-workers and neighbors party scraps - lobster shells and bodies, clam shells, veggie leftovers, etc - for my compost pile all month long. What a Face

I love my neighbors! I love you

CC

**Scorpio Rising** 8/2/2016, 7:07 pm

Cowpeas? Need to educate myself! Cool plants, yolos!

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Forgot to post an actual picture of the avatar....

How long does that stuff take to assimilate, CC?

Landarch, I get it. So hot and dry.... Will need to do any germinating inside. I can barely keep the actual garden alive, let alone think about seeds.....

countrynaturals 8/5/2016, 2:05 pm

Okay, so I lied! When I visited the compost area this morning, there was a perfect volunteer sunflower. I know I've used a sunflower in the past as an avatar, so this time I just used the center. This one is so perfect, it deserves its 15 minutes of fame.
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CapeCoddess 8/5/2016, 4:09 pm

Scorpio Rising wrote:

How long does that stuff take to assimilate, CC?

The lobster shells and bodies can decompose in 10 - 30 days, depending on how active the pile is. My newest pile, started last month, makes short work of them. Last years pile still contained a couple of really thick claws here and there which I'm still picking out of the fall/spring composted beds, along with clam shells of which I'm beginning to wonder if they ever breakdown.
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That sunflower IS perfect, Country! I like how you used the center as your avatar.

CC

countrynaturals 8/5/2016, 5:33 pm

Thanks, CC. I'm sure the chickens will appreciate that center in a couple of weeks, too. rofl

**Scorpio Rising** 8/5/2016, 6:03 pm

Love it! Great idea CN!

Interesting, CC, I would have thought much longer!

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