Yes, we need the moisture but gee, I want to go outside and play! Yesterday, I added more wood chip mulch to the front flower bed under the edge of the solar array after mowing the leftover stalks with the lawn mower. (I also mowed the small garden next to the chicken coop and the big daylily bed in the back yard.) I planned on mowing the asparagus patch in the main garden as I mowed the planting areas in the berry patch and the asparagus bed there. It looked so nice with all the dead stuff chopped up and neat looking.
Then, last night, the rain started. A cold, drizzly rain. Yuck! So instead of having fun, I’m in the house packing seeds and washing five tons of dirty dishes instead. Oh well, it sure needs doing. I’ve got family coming for Easter dinner, so I really need to shovel out. I hate even calling it “cleaning house.” I’ve been busy giving seed classes to local groups lately, one at Nett Lake, another at the Bear River School, and Saturday at the Embarrass Town Hall. It seems like lots of folks are very interested in growing more food for their families! That’s so very nice.
I’m still transplanting pepper seedlings and Will is taking them out to the greenhouse, where they seem to love the heat. I’ve sure got a lot of tomatoes yelling at me to get to them too!
I checked our fruit trees, and they came through the winter very nicely. And they have big, fat buds on them too! I sure hope we don’t get another late spring frost like last year. It caught all the trees, wild and domestic, so we didn’t get much fruit or berries at all. Here’s hoping.
When it dries up a bit, I need to mow the cornstalks down in the Main and Sand Gardens. Will is going to be spreading manure pretty soon, as soon as the ground dries up a bit. It’s much nicer to spread on top of chopped garden debris rather than standing stuff. Then we’ve got to hit the Wolf Garden and pull tomato stakes and cages from the 200 plus dead plants. We’ll burn the vines in a pile, to make sure we don’t have any pests or disease, then I’ll mow the corn stalks out there too. And, of course, we have to pull a gazillion bean trellises made of cattle panels and steel T posts too. Gee, the work never ends. But we sure do enjoy it a lot!
— Jackie
Wow ! So BUSY i just got the garden cleaned out before cultivating with the tractor. Got my peas an some greens, but the nights are still hovering to close to below freezing. so waiting to seed potatos and other root stocks, soil is Cold, but the peas didn’t care, up they are! did I notice a flat already on your handy cart? rain is natures blessing to the too dry winter(cant be a suggestion for staying in doin housework??) so much work prep for gardners but oh such rewards!
Send some rain my way if you would, lol. We are dry and the wind just keeps blowing making in much worse. I have been planting garden the last couple of days. I put in lettuce, radishes, carrots, onion sets, beets, potatoes and set out some cabbage,broccoli and cauliflower plants. I took a chance and put in beans, summer squash and butternut squash hoping the weather stays warm. I still need to set out tomato and pepper plants, then I will be pretty well done planting in the garden. I’m going to put watermelon, muskmelon and some herbs in containers due to small garden space. I picked some asparagus yesterday and the Rhubarb looks great. I’m hoping for a great year. Just need the rains. Sounds like you and Will have lots of jobs to keep you busy for a while. I hope your knees will behave for you this year. Sending prayers for a blessed week.
Send the rain my way-dry as toast here. Tillage kicks up a cloud of dust. Enjoy Easter with your family. We can always complain about the weather -safe topic.
Yep we can! We’re pretty dry here too. The beaver ponds are very low and we’re worrying about fire danger as the swamp grass everywhere is still tall and easy for fire to quickly spread. Happy Easter to you as well!
This is worse than waiting for Christmas when we were little, right? Our rain has let up but the wind is cold. My son is back in the field working ground to start planting when it warms up.
The wind is brisk so the dirt turns back to tan color very quickly. I like your golf cart. I use a side by side with a dump bed and it is so handy. We got one years ago and then of course whenever I needed it, someone had taken it out for farm use, so we got a second one. Now I have no excuse for not getting the same stuff done that you were describing. Am putting in waist high garden beds this year and someone mentioned using grain bin rings as gardens and my son said we have one 15 ft bin ring in the barn, it’s. been there for years. So now I will be having a 15 ft round, with a pie shaped cut out from the outer ring so I can pick strawberries from the middle and the outside of the ring. I’m really looking forward to that. I started seed potatoes in clear plastic cups just because it was way to cold to plant them outside when I bought them. I covered them in dirt and after about 2 weeks in the house, they started to grow. Some of them are about a foot tall. I hope they do well when I replant them. I got the idea and then looked it up on YouTube and got some tips from people who had done the same thing. Well Happy Spring and a Blessed Easter with your family. It takes a lot of work to get the house in shape and cook, but having your loved ones around, chaos and all is wonderful. Especially now that we have great grand babies to add to the family tree.
I always check to see if you have posted, I think of you both when I see the weather maps and am always amazed at the amount of things that you two accomplish.
With a smile,
We’re enjoying a nice, sunny day. I went into the gardens today for the first time and boy did that ever get me going!! I don’t start any potatoes inside; ours always do great without it and it just adds more work for me. Phooey!! I did get my peppers transplanted though. We’re supposed to get more rain tomorrow, and we can sure use it as it is so dry. But we really love these sunny days! You have a wonderful Easter!!