Moving the Log

I woke up in the middle of the night hearing the rain that ran off the roof.  It was still raining when I got up. And rained off and on until about noon.

I have picked some asparagus almost everyday.  I picked a few asparagus spears late this morning.

Jim Larson stopped by this morning to look at some of the logs that I have.  He would saw them into lumber.  He would like to drive in with his skid stear, but there is not an easy way in.  The photo above is a log that we cut down several weeks ago.  It is about seven feet long and has a diameter of about fourteen inches.

This afternoon I watered in house two.  The tomato plants are getting pretty large.  I pruned of the branches.  I put those that are long into a labeled plastic quart bottle.  They should root in two weeks.

 Here is a close-up of three.

The cucumbers are doing extremely well.  The one in the above picture is the first one and his close to the ground.  It is starting to curl.

I put some tomato clamps to hold them up.  The white objects are hooked to the string and circle the cucumber stem.

Peas were soaked in water and planted several weeks ago.  They are doing well.  It would have better if it were a month ago.  The rain last night really helped.

The two pictures are the tree spade.  I hope to put it up for sale.

The Fremont Barberry is blooming now.  The flower have a sweet aroma.  And the fruit in the fall is very sweet.  It looks like a good crop.

Alisha and her twelve year old neighbor visited the nursery.  She wanted some Honey Suckle plant.  I dug up three and they came back for seven more. I finished today around 7:30.

Carol did not fill well  all day.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Zinnias, Customer, and Weeds

I got one row ready to plant. I put down pink tape every 18 inches and held them down with a nail.  A tomato plant is placed at each marker.  There are five plants between each post.  I secured the post with a piece of conduit and tie wire.

The posts were not plumb.  I wired a wedge to help hold it plum.

I planted some County Fair Zinnias a couple of weeks ago and transplanted them in to on tray of Jumbo six packs. And another tray of six pack of slim Jims.

 Fremont barberries are new in the above tray.  The old ones are Round leaf Buffaloberry. 

The flowers from an Oak tree in our yard.

Flowers from the Big Tooth maple in our yard.  I little hard to see.  

The early spring look of Stansbury rock daisy, Perityle stansburyi.

How it looks after I cut off all the dead stems.

The above picture and the two below is of the weeding I done on the north native plant garden.

I don't know the name of this plant there are two specimens side by side.  It is a milkweed that bleeds when it is cut.  The milk weed is another one that has to be dug out by the root, if not the weed will grow back.  The seeds blow in the wind.

I dug this type of milk weed up by the roots.  This is about the only war to kill it.

Dug up weeds in the south garden.  There are still a lot more to go.

A Fern Leaf Peonie  which is in full bloom.  Quite a history with this plant.  Got a start from a neighbor, planted it in my yard in American Fork, brought it with us when we moved to Holden, and moved it once to the present location in our backyard.

Comments and questions are welcome.

More Weed Barrier

Sweet potato

cabbage and broccoli

Twine from house one

Comments and questions welcome.

Dermatologist

I wanted to get some of the garden ready for tomato plants today.  I got the weed barrier out and then selected the place in the garden to place it.  There will be some photos later.

I sprayed one tank of Round-up on the weeds that I missed with the lawnmower tank.

I drove to Fillmore where I had an appointment with a dermatologist to take a look at the pre-cancer scabby things on my face.  Most of it is one the left side.

I bought a few things at Roper's then I came home.  One was the Miracle Grow potting soil.   In the meantime Carol was finishing up on the heart monitoring thing.  She started yesterday while we were in Provo at 11:30 a.m. and finished today at 11:30 a.m.  When I got home we put all the materials (batteries, cords, and shipping envelop) together in the black container.  We drove to the south end of Fillmore where the FedEx drop box was located.  We received a little help from the person at the station.  We then came home and had lunch.

I received some strawberry plants that I ordered about ten days ago.  I ordered one set which contained twenty-five plants.  I put them in a bucket of water to get them ready for transplanting.  I filled six baskets with some used potting soil.  I then wetted them down.

I finished fill the baskets with the Miracle Grow potting soil.  I put four plants in each basket.  The last basket had only three plants.  There should be two left over, but I was short two. I watered them well and they are on an outside bench.  I hope to sale them for $25 each.  The plants cost $25 and I all ready had the pots.

The above photo is of a small cucumber.  There needs to be a male flower, but there aren't and yet.

I got the weed barrier down.  I used the tiller to loosen the soil.  Once going down and another coming back.  I shoveled out an irrigation row and used spikes to hold the weed barrier down.  The tomatoes will be planted in the center of the row.  Last year there were iris and strawberries in this spot.

I put a washer on each spike and pounded them into the ground.

The north edge of the weed barrier is next to the peonies.  East and west of the peonies will be planted to melons and watermelons.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Provo - ER

These are photo from Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, which is today.  They are not in a chronological order.

The above photo is of the Sweet potato bed.  It was not deep enough.  I added 2x4's to make the sides 3 1/2 inches taller. Last year the sweet potatoes grew down into the hard clay.

It took two wheelbarrows full of used potting soil to fill it up.

Monday afternoon I moved the tomato plants in jumbo six packs up to quart containers.  I used recycled potting soil.

I planted a bunch of pepper and tomato plants.  There are seventy-two plants per tray.

The first planting of beans died.  I think that the days were to short to keep them going.  The next plantings were pole beans and today I notice flowers.

The Red Bud in front of our house is really pretty.  This is the pretest that I have seen in our yard.

Here is a closer look at the beautiful flowers.  

 There are not many weeds in the strawberry patch.  I got most of what was left.  There is a shadow of my hat and head in the late afternoon sun.

 Above is a small plant that has two flowers. Last year we didn't get many berries.  I am expecting a good crop this year.

Beautiful phlox.  I cleaned out the weeds.

Carol was wheeled out for an x-ray.  While she was gone the blood pressure cuff started pumping and it wasn't on the wrist of anyone.  I thought it might burst.  It didn't.

Comments and questions are welcome.