Garden Muck

During the drought time, when it was empty of water, I excavated the garden pool. I hauled 21 loads (8 gallons per load using large Tubtrugs (link here)) for a total of 168 gallons of muck, which I spread around the garden.

Hopefully, this is like that annual flooding of the Nile, and will enrich the soil accordingly.

Best quote of the Labor Day weekend

"We could not possibly have invited anyone over because we didn't know anyone up here."

Priceless.

Ferry-Morse

http://www.ferry-morse.com/

Lots of gardening information.

Ironweed

http://www.hortmag.com//article/plantthisironweed

Vernonia noveboracensis

Added to my wish list.

Seven Sons

Available from Park Seed (link here)

On my wish list.

Carpenter Weed

http://www.hort.net/profile/ast/silpe/

On my wish list.

Saw one out by the Oconomowoc Art Fair this summer, and it was spectacular.

Sharks in Lake Mighigan

There's no telling what might turn up in Lake Michigan.

Rich Fasi of Traverse City says he found a dead 2-foot shark in the water while fishing on West Grand Traverse Bay on Wednesday.

The saltwater fish was a juvenile blacktip shark, said Mark Tonello, a fisheries biologist from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

- AP/azcentral (link here)