People ask us what we do with our spare time and we just blink and say “sleep.” Honestly, there is no spare time, as we’re going crazy, planting. After all, two old timers hand-planting 5 acres isn’t an easy task. Yesterday, I planted about half an acre of three different sweet corn varieties plus pole beans.
Today, it was (so far) lots of pole beans and some more dry bush beans. Then we took a couple of visitors out to the Wolf Garden to give the tour and Will discovered we have some ground squirrels out there, digging up and eating the sprouting sweet corn seed. I have to get a trap out there right away!
Will’s been busy with our new, battery-operated rototiller I got on Amazon, tilling the onion rows. It is the only one we know of that takes DeWalt batteries, which we have many. That’s a win-win for us! The good news is that it really works well. He tilled five 75-foot rows, and the battery still read 100%. We were amazed!
Our transplanted squash and melons look great, as do the peppers and tomatoes. Today, Will is busy, pounding in more steel T-posts and caging our flock of tomato plants — there are 219 of them this year.
I still have to plant the Damaun super-sweet corn and melons and squash in the main garden and Seneca Sunrise sweet corn in the Berry Patch Garden tomorrow. Then, I’m about done planting and it’s on to weeding. Thank God, the weeds are a little slow as we have had very little rain for over a month. We did get a trifle last night, not even a quarter of an inch, but it did help!
— Jackie
We’re supposed to get three inches over the next four days (most coming the next two days). Again, we’ll see.
I have a group of bad boy tom turkeys. I barricaded my straw bales. Today they scratched up a few small potatoes which is NOT acceptable. I put up fencing around the area they hit, will finish fencing off the plants tomorrow.
Strawberry season is about over. Will pick one more time in the morning. While we need the rain, it will end strawberry season.
While only a few weeds in the garden, any rain will kick them into overdrive. See some grass in the asparagus.
We’ll be in the 90s this weekend so hoping the rain hits and I can do some weeding on Thursday when I am off work. If not, weed, stay hydrated, and take breaks this weekend.
We have a small electric (corded) tiller which we’ve found quite handy for weeding.