Yep, Will got the solar powered golf cart working for me. I can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate that and use it every single day. Yes, I do walk and exercise all the time. After all, how did four and a half acres get planted by hand? Maybe that’s why my knees hurt so much? Oh well, it’s about done now, except for some sweet corn I think I’ll have to replant. As it was so dry, I planted it in the moister parts of the gardens. Then we got 2½ inches of pouring rain. And another 2 inches, then a little more. Now those areas are soggy and I’m thinking the corn seeds simply rotted in the ground, due to the excess moisture.
Then there’s the carrots. I planted them when it was dry, and there was a forecast for rain soon. It did rain — .003 of an inch. Then it got dry again. I think they germinated on the rain’s moisture and then dried out and died. Gotta plant those again too.
Oh well, the pumpkins and squash look fantastic as do most of our beans. The peppers in the field look better than those in the hoop houses. It’s been so very hot, they kind of sat there while the weeds jumped up. Of course, at 110 F in the hoop houses, I sure couldn’t go in and weed them. Now there’s a big job, just waiting for me now that it’s cooled off again.
On the way home from mailing seeds at the post office, I stopped to take pictures of the Pink Lady Slipper bed I love. There weren’t as many as usual. But those that were blooming were simply gorgeous.
Our cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower plants look simply gorgeous this year after kind of a puny start. I’ll be planting them this afternoon as it’s cooled down and gotten cloudy following last night’s gentle rain. It sure feels good to be back in “normal” action again!
— Jackie
Glad you got your ride fixed.
Rick just got home from where we lived in mnts.driving water truck for a month.you wouldn’t know the old place up there the roads are like frontage roads compared to when we all lived on them.we have had rain but lots of sunshine but got down cold for 3 nights and days my carrots did nothing yet potatoes are doing well green beans are up but spotty only 2nd year of garden spot here take care ol friend we miss you and David so much.
I miss you guys too! Things have really changed around the old home place. Especially the price of land. Holy cow! I can’t believe the cost of bare land anymore, in Montana and much of the West. Gardens are kind of tough in a lot of places so far.
I’m sure glad you got your “wheels” back! Those energy savers are so important, especially when there is so much work to be done and we don’t feel 100%. I’m so glad you have remembered the old adage of work smarter, not harder, lol. It makes a huge difference in quality of life. The pictures of the Lady Slippers are just beautiful. My potted plants are looking good and the berries around my property are producing well this year. I have been ill and the weeds in my garden have taken over. My granddaughter came yesterday and did quite a lot of weeding which is such a blessing. Hopefully I will be able to get out there to work soon. Sending prayers for a blessed week.
Thank you again for your prayers and thought. Sorry to hear you’ve been sick. That’s horrible this time of the year, for sure. I’m so glad I have my mobility back. I just planted more carrots, all our cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and more sweet corn.
Oh, the Lady Slippers….how beautiful! My Minnesota brother knows where some yellow ones are, but if I recall, it’s the pink that are the state flower.
Yep, it’s the pink ones. I really love them so much!! A couple of years back, I found a purple one that was so pretty.
Dear Jackie,
Glad you finally got some rain. We have had rain every day until this week. Now it is in the 90’s with heat index of 100 +. On the bright side, I have already canned 1 bushel of green beans, (Contenders) and working on another bushel tonight. I also got a bushel of sweet peaches and cream corn in the freezer this week. Everything here came in real early. Hope it does not stay scorching for too long or it will all dry out. Yesterday, there was some kind of harvester equipment the size of my house, came and got all the oats cut down. We are in the middle of some huge, huge fields. LOL I love it all. Take care and everyone stay cool. Your Lady Slippers were beautiful. But I think your cat needs to join Nutri System or Weight Watchers!!
Poor Buffy, getting fat shamed!! Yep, she does like to eat, doesn’t she. Maybe it’s because she was starving when we found her?
Peaches?? Oh my gosh, I’m so jealous. I can eat them every single day. Grandma, in Michigan, used to have a peach tree and I still remember canning them up. The ones in the store are HARD. Can you imagine that?? Shipped in peaches are around $40 for a small box. And they are pretty hard, too. No thank you!
Ah I remembered I have some zuke seeds in my stash. I’ll plant a couple, there is still time.
Oh yes, there is. They come on so fast!
Glad you are up and “running”. Today jam day for us with 8 beautiful quarts of strawberries. Heavy rain last night-3-1/2 inches-indoor projects today. It’s hot and steamy. My truck brakes are locking up and it is not driveable. Something else to fix-always something!
That’s for sure. Will’s working on our backup haybine. The one he caught on fire. Getting there, though. He took out time to fix my golf cart. God bless him!
You getting any of that Canadian smoke??
The rain has kind of made it go away. I know it sure made my nose run and eyes burn. I hope the rains have let the firefighters get them under containment.
Spring in Vermont, or rather, “spring” is really just a continuation of late winter: chilly, wet, kinda miserable. Then, sometime in June, Boom! it’s summer all of the sudden. We’re having a couple of 90º+ days – I’m not a fan – then it will col down to the 60ºs later this week with more rain. Can’t wait.
I have absolutely no luck starting carrots in the garden, they never come up well. Instead, I have seedling trays with small, but deep, wells, which makes it a whole lot easier to manage the moisture. Once the carrots are about an inch high, they go out into the garden beds (an old butter knife is perfect for popping them out), properly spaced so no thinning is necessary. Then I start a new batch of carrot seeds in the empty seed pans. I can start about six dozen plants at a time so we end up with plenty.
I have often wondered about starting carrots in cardboard egg flats which could be set straight into the garden without the transplanting……. I love your way of doing the carrots as well.
Wow, good for you. I have never had luck starting carrots from seed indoors or transplanting them out. I’ve found planting carrots later results in better germination in the garden. The old information on seed packs saying “plant as soon as the soil can be worked” is hogwash.
We are on the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains. Had lots of rain after a long winter. Fjnally getting the summer heat here. And our tomatoes, peppers and potatoes are taking g off, after having 2 plantings die.
It seems that every year something in the garden is a big challenge in some way or other. This year, it’s our corn. Too hot and dry, now too wet and cool. No perfect gardening year, for sure.
We’re hoping to scrounge up a zuke plant – something, likely a rabbit (no foot prints), chomped the blossom on the not that healthy looking zuke plant. I’ll be 65 come next garden season so I have plans.
Is it just the angle or is Buffy looking a bit chonky? She is too cute for her own good. We’re in keeping an eye on our one rescue – he’s a bit of an even more hot mess of health issues. We’ll not let him suffer but we’ll not put him through treatment that does not have more than a six to eighteen month survival rate. It is heart breaking but at least we could afford a diagnosis and to keep him from suffering. But I know (better half will get there) after he’s joined our other feline/canine family at the Rainbow Bridge, another will need a furever home.
Will be but a few weeks before we’ll dig our first tater plant (better half learned his lesson last year re: being impatient). The first planting was getting ready to flower when something consumed the buds.
For like the third year, nary a scape on the garlic. It won’t be long before it is ready to harvest.
Oh, hearing some thunder – weather app shows chance of rain for the next 8 days. Have the lids off the compost bins and crossing my fingers.
It is still stinkin’ hot so any strawberries that ripened over these past 3+ days are a no-go. The berries need some heat but not a scorcher.
I’ve yet to see a use for AI that is a long term benefit to society. And frankly, avoiding AI is my goal. I’ll take actual intelligence, skill, knowledge, and common sense any day of the week.
Did another stealth stock up Sunday night. Errand bundling tomorrow with add a bit more to the pantry. I can tell things are getting tight – grocery store in a upper middle class area is marking down hamburger (of a quality far better than Wally or Aldi) as well as other cuts of meat besides steak. Better half couldn’t pass up alleged thick cut bacon the store was dang near giving away. Thick cut it was not but after 1.5+ hours of productive weeding, it hit the spot with gifted home raised eggs.
More and more, I’m finding AI taking over all info on my phone, when I ask questions. I roll right past the AI. Don’t want anything that the WEF claims to be better than God, and which they say is re-writing the Bible. Also trying to reinvent humankind into transhumankind. Such foolishness. I don’t even care about the “good” AI does. Want nothing to do with it.
+Yep, I’m definitely anti-AI! I can’t see any possible benefit for it. I hate it when my phone “knows” better than I do what word I mean to use. I tried to type in cocaine, referring to the name folks call my famous pepper relish dip, and it kept replacing it with Cochise!!
I’m pretty much a luddite, as far as technology goes. I guess I’m just old!
Yep, Buffy is getting a little FAT. Oh well, I guess I am too. Don’t say exercise!!! I’d have to throttle you. lol
Absolutely NO marked down meat anywhere around here. It goes up weekly. At the sale barn, cattle are selling for $3 and $4 a pound, live weight and baby 3 day old calves, $1,000 each. The price of beef should be skyrocketing soon. Eek~!
Buffy is not getting fat! She’s stocking up for winter. Pretty kitty..