Weeding Cone-Tainers

When we got home from Manti, I did the watering.

It was way to hot to work in the greenhouse.  I got my heavy shovel and dug up all the puncture weeds along the street.  I filled a five gallon bucket with the puncture vine.  I put it on the trailer to be hauled to the dump.

I made a bunch of tube trays 4 1/2 inch shorter.

 I weeded the cone-tainers.  Most of the weeds spotted spurge.

The above picture is a pile of spurge and the shorten tray with the plants.  

 A lot of wasps.  They don't like me.  The are always buzzing me near my hears.  I put a little honey above the garage door.  Sure enough, they began to eat the honey.  I got them with a fly swatter.  I did this several times.

I got a picture of Freckles, our cat, showing the gash on his neck.  It is nearly healed.


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Saturday, Sunday, & Monday

We went to the temple Saturday, and I didn't have time to post anything.

I was able to plant another tray of Detroit Red Beets.  They begin to germinate in five to six days.

The peas are pretty much dried up.  I dug up an armful and put them one the compost pile. I did this and other weeding while watering some parts of our garden.

The watermelons are receiving a good soaking.  I did some weeding here.

I weeded around the sweet potatoes which are doing very well.

I may have taken some pictures on Sunday; but I wait until Monday to post anything.

This morning I hurried out to house six.  I wanted to get ready for the concrete reinforcing wire.  I dug out all of the kohlrabi  and piled them in the main isle.  It was pretty muddy there.  

I loaded the kohlrabi into the wheelbarrow and hauled it out to the compost pile.

The seedless cucumber are getting a good watering.  The water comes on every night at seven for two hours before it shuts off.

I got a good picture is garden spider.

It must have caught a grasshopper.  All that is left is one grasshopper leg.

I did a lot of tomato pruning before lunch.  Some of those branches may grow a couple feet during a week.  

 An interesting tomato.  I am not sure but I think that this is a cutting from a tomato plant that I dug up last fall.  I kept it in house two all winter.  The fruit from the one in house two is much smaller.

I made another bow for Blue Lake pole beans.  This went much faster than the first one I did last week.  I secured the south side of the hoop.  Next I tied the middle piece to the greenhouse bows.  Last I secured the north side of the hoop.

 Found another wasp nest under the bench in house six.  I sprayed them with WD-40.

 Lastly, I weeded five trays of cone-Tainers and put them in trays which I cut off 4 1/2 inches off the legs.  They are now on pad one where the will be watered.



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Twice as Good as Last Week

Frank, Dianne and Joe came to pick produce.  I got so busy that I did not get a picture.  We picked eggplants, cucumbers, and tomatoes.  They left about three and I made preparations for the Market in Fillmore.  I was going to start at five.  I washed the tomatoes and cucumbers, graded them and put them in totes.  I made price signs.  I loaded up, drove to Fillmore, set up and waited for customers.   None came.  Finally a car stopped. I knew who they were.  They had bought some things at Duanes and other things came from their garden.  A little later another customer came and spent $6.50 which was twice as much as last week.

This is what I saw while picking tomatoes and cucumber.

It is not as clear looking at it from the other side

The Garden Spider trapped a grasshopper in its web.  All that is left is its leg which is one the left side of the circle.

This is what's left of the cucumber plants.  I will find a place to plant them.

 Both pictures one above and one below are the new cucumber transplanted to the bow.

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A Bow in House Six

I worked most of the morning in house one.  I went up and down every isle pruning all of the branches.  I then started clipping the new growth to the twine trellis.  Some were so tall that I stood on a small stepstool.  Other's had to be dropped.  I didn't finish the clipping.  I did some watering in the garden and in house two.  

After lunch, I drove to Fillmore and bought chicken scratch and thirty-two feet of welded concrete reinforcement wire.

As soon as I got home I removed all the hoses on the lawn and mowed the lawn.  I used, used motor oil for the lawnmower.  It almost stopped twice.

 I unrolled it on the back lawn and measured half, and cut of sixteen feet. Picture above is the half that I left on the lawn.  The other half is in house six.

The bow is about seven feet wide at the base and about six feet high.  I tied it to the greenhouse bows to hold it up.  It is pretty flimsy and I don't know if it will hold the heavy cucumbers that I will be planting there.

I made the small clips.  I drilled a hole to accommodate the spike.  I drove it into the ground.

 I forgot to water.  The above photo is of the cucumber plants that are going into house six.  An hour later to water would most likely been too late.

An hour after they were water they stiffened up again.  I saved them.

 Eggplants and

 Slicing tomatoes and

salad tomatoes for the vegetable sale tomorrow in front of Ropers in Fillmore.


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Mount Timpanogus Temple

We spent most of the day in American Fork at the Timpanogos  Temple.  We did sealings for Carol's  relative that passed on.

After our temple visit we gave them some of our garden produce in the temple parking lot..

 The pole beans are nearly ready to climb.

 I weeded all the Bristlecone pine plants.  The above photo shows a grassy weed which was in almost every cone-tainer.  I cut and pulled all the weeds.

This tray show a lot of weeds.  Mainly a grass and spotted spurge.

Two weed free trays of Bristlecone pine seedlings.  I took them up to pad one where they will get a good watering to early in the morning.

It was 4:30 when we got home.  The basil above had started wilt.  I watered everything.



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July 24th 2018

Today is the celebration of the Mormon Pioneers settling in the Salt Lake Valley.  The falling photos are of the parade, breakfast and other activities that shows the celebrations in Holden, Utah.

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