Tuesday Afternoon

There were a lot of deer on the road south of Scipio about 4:30 a.m.  As soon as we got home I checked out houses two and six.  The temperature in both were over 110 degrees.  I quickly opened the doors in house two and  opened the east door of house six and removed the fan cover.

Alisha Bills called me on the way home from Manti.  She wanted some help with the weeds in her yard.  There is a lot of tall grass on the north and west edge of her yard.  I hope to develop a plan to help her out.

I planted a row of beets along the south side of house six.  The tray has 105 cells.  Some of the cells had no plants in them.  I planted them along the edge of the drip tape.   we will see how they do.

The above picture show the beets, drip tape, dibble, and holes made with the dibble. the plants fit perfectly in the hole.

Above is the empty tray and part of a row of beets.

I used a tube tray as a template to make holes for the tray of onions.  I put the tray upside down and pushed the dibbler trough every other hole.

I pushed and pulled the onion plants out of each cell and stuck them in the hole.

It really worked well.  I later watered them.

I had eight purple plum tomato plants that I rooted several weeks ago.  I put them in a tray of water to irrigate them.

I pulled some beets our of house two and house six.  I cut off the leaves and stems. Then cut the beets into smaller pieces and boiled them for abut forty minutes.

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Saturday. Sunday, & Monday

Wires for the Grapes

The are a lot of things that I wanted to accomplish today.  I watched half of the news this morning and went to work.

Paula Warner might come tomorrow and get these Fern Bushes.  They were in the orchard and I brought them to the patio where I could give them some water.

Alisha wanted me to spray the weeds and grass around here shrubs.  I the truck has some stuff in the bed that I needed to empty.  I got the house garbage and one trash can for house two and took it to the dump.  I can now put the tank sprayer in the truck and spray Alisha's weeds.

I was pruning off the side shoots of a special tomato plant that I growing.  There it is doing well and has four side shoots.  I cut one of them off.  The above photo doesn't show it clearly.  It is one the right side bottom.

She wanted some seeds of the trees that are in our yard.  She got some seeds from the Red Bud that is in front of our house.  Right now it is in full bloom.  We also got some seeds from the Hawthorne tree and Almond tree.

I pulled her two large Red Beets.  She wanted to plant some.  We filled this twelve inch pot with soil and the she planted some small beet plants and put and onion plant in the middle.

She planted the seeds in three different small pots.  I instructed her to water from the bottom.  She took a small Styrofoam container that was in the greenhouse.  She was here for nearly two hours.

We drove to Fillmore where I made a deposit and we got a few groceries.  For a treat we stopped at the Ice Burg and I got Carol a chocolate soft ice cream and I got me a vanilla cone.

I picked asparagus a little before lunch and got a nice batch.

I strung the wires for the grapes.  It took quite awhile.  I made several trips back to the garage and the greenhouses for tools.  The bottom wire was stiff and I could not get it tight.  I cut a piece of barbwire that was on the west fence.  I called Raymond and he gave me permission to use the wire.  You can't see it in the picture.  You can only see the bottom wire.  I pulled the barbed wire tight and wrapped it around the tee posts.  I got the turnbuckle that was in house six.  I tightened it up and that pulled the post a little bit, but caused the barbwire to sag.

I am going the sell most of the geraniums.  I took several pictures to show them on Holden Face book page.  The retail price at the Beaver Nursery for a smaller plant sells for $1.96.  I should be able to get more.  At least $2.75.

I made slug bait with yeast, sugar, salt, and water.  The strawberry plants are being eaten by slugs.  There are eight small cups of bait in the strawberries.  I put a couple of other cups by the pole beans.

Carol spotted some humming birds in the Red Bud tree.  It took awhile to find the bird feeder.  Carol filled it and I hung it on the roof over the front porch.

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Mow the Lawn - Ran out of Gas

Elisha called me this morning and wanted to see how her plants are doing.  She also wanted a Fremont Barberry.  The one she got last fall had died.

I got her a new one and she took the four strawberry plants that she didn't get last year.  She want a cherry tomato plant in a hanging basket.  I put a black Cherry plant in the basket which is in the above photo.

I forgot to pick the asparagus earlier, so I picked it around ten.

I washed it and put it in these large mouth  pint bottles and then into the fridge.

I started soaking Green Arrow pea seeds yesterday morning.  I prepared the ground which took awhile.  I decided not to use my tiller.  I figured that I could use a shovel, stirrup hoe, and an V hoe to do the job about the same time of bringing the tiller out which is in house six.  I spaded the soil and used the stirrup hoe to break up the clods.  and with the V hoe I made a row for the seeds.  I broke the clods further by placing a pipe in the row and walking on it.  I then planted the soaked peas and covered them with soil.  The last thing it did was to walk on the soil to press the soil tightly to the seeds.

I run the water down the row for the rest of the day.  It had about three more feet to get to the end.

A couple of days ago Paula Warner called for some Fern Bush.  I brought one out to the driveway where I could get a good photo.

I mowed the lawn with my new mower.  I was able to mow faster this time.  I know how to speed up, slow down, back up with blade running and with blade not running.  I also make large turns with the blade off.  I mowed up a lot of grass and leaves.  I backed up to the west door of house six.  I put the leaves and the clippings around the tomato plants for weed control.

There were more weeds in some areas and more grass in other areas.


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St George & Back

Richard went under the knife yesterday morning.  He had surgery on his back.  The doctors did work on his back and then went in to the back below the chest.  The four and one half hour surgery went well according to his doctors.

The Japanses Zelcovo tree was started from seed.  A branch broke in one of the spring snow storms and you can see the branches hanging towards the bottom right corner.  I put up a folding ladder which wasn't high enough.  I put up and extension ladder; it reached the branch.  I carefully climbed the ladder and was able to cut it off.

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Home Early

We were up early for our weekly trip to the temple.  We came hop soon as our shift was over.  We usually eat lunch before we come home.

Our son, Richard, had back surgery this morning.  Carol called him after we got home and he reported that the surgery went well.

 The geraniums are doing really well.  Above is  a tray of eight plants that are well in bud.

 These are beginning to bud.

I cleaned all of the old pine needles under this Austrian pine west of our driveway.

The garlic is looking good.  It is between a row of rhubarb on the left and a row of peas on the right.

Paula Warner called in need of some fern Bush. I found eight in #5 pots that have been there for years.  She may not want these.

Here is another photo of some.

I found two in five inch pots and two in quart parts.

I was walking out to house two and this white and yellow cat was looking at me.

During the winter I dumped the shreds on the compost pile.  I filled the wheel barrow and brought them to house six.  I am using them to much the tomato plants for weed control.

I started to dig the weeds from the Iris plants and pretty much finished todayl

Another view from the opposite direction.


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