Most Pots are Empty/ Cleaning Shed

The cats and kittens that live at our place, about eleven of them, are eating a lot of cat food and pooping all over the lawn and close to the house.  After a few days it really sinks.  I have had the trap out for several day.  We put a small frying pan which hold some of their food.  This morning three of the kittens were in the trap.  I pulled the trip wire and the gate fell down and locked them in.  They have been relocated.

I spent much of the morning and early afternoon empting the pots.  Most are empty now.  Below is the a 48 foot bench.  At times it is filled with plants.  Now there are some plants on the east end.  I dumped the pots in a large nursery can and carried them into house two, where I put them in the new raised bed.

I continued in the organizing and cleaning in the shed.  I have a lot of plant tags that I have had for years and years.  I don't even grow the varieties and more.  I started dumping them in large nursery cans. I filled up two.  They will be going to the dump tomorrow.  The photo below shows the boxes that I removed.  There was a lot of dust and dirt on the floor.

The picture shows some of the shelves and the stuff on the floor.  I want all of that on the shelves or stacked neatly under the shelves.  The one nursery can is filled with pot tags.

 There are a couple of Italian squash.  I brought them in the house for the picture.

I cut an eight piece of the end, cut it in half, and wrapped them with aluminum foil.  Carol baked the while I was out side working.  Below the plate with potatoes and gravy with the squash covered with butter.  Tasted pretty good.

Before supper Carol fed the cats.  I put some cat food in the tramp.  The cat that we wanted to relocate went in, I pulled the trip wire, but she was not all the way in and she got a way.  Another cat came in and she was caught.  I relocated her to another place.

I opened another water melon.  It was red and sweet.  We gave the rest of it to the Stephensons.

Comments and questions are welcomed.

The Freeze Never Happened in our Area

Today, I turned the furnace own. The temperature in the house was 63 degrees.

I was working again cleaning around the greenhouses.  I keep finding trays all around the south door of house two.  I worked some there this morning and again in the late afternoon.  The germination trays can get extra heavy when it rains and if they out in the rain.  Rain was the forecast this afternoon.

While I was doing this Robert and Frank, Andrew, the furnace guy arrived about the same time. Andrew got the furnace going.  It didn't take him long.  The valve attached to the furnace would not turn for me.  It turned for him.  Isn't that the way it works.  He loosind one of the gas pipes to bleed out the air.  He tightened it up when he smelled the gas.  He lit the piolet light and turned up the thermostat.  The furnace worked.  I had him pick some tomatoes while I got the check book.  $15.00.

Robert and Frank removed a lot of tomato plants out of house seven.  The weight of the tomato plants hanging from the bows was putting some stress on them.  Robert and Frank picked peppers, tomatoes, The mature Italian squash and some watermelons.

I dug the onions before lunch.  They were laying on the black weed barrier.  After lunch Carol and I cut off the onion tops.  I put them in the garage for them to cure a little.   Later we drove to Fillmore from some groceries.  We got a roast and hamburger at Ashton Farms.  Eric, our son, called and wanted to know if the could visit us tomorrow.  That was the main purpose going to Fillmore.

I moved the compressor into house three to get it out of the rain.

It rained on the way home from Fillmore and it has rained quite a bit this evening.

No pictures today.  I got too busy to document the day with photos.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Day After Irrigation

We picked our pole beans as soon as it was light enough to see.  We didn't get many.  Our plants have not produced well.  Carol washed them.  We put them a grocery bag and we gave them to one of our neighbors.

Our neighbor, Karen, has a beautiful flower bed.  I had to take a picture.  Many of those plants she got from us.

I picked the tomatoes from our garden.  There were two totes.  One full and the other one half full.  She peeled all of them and put in quart bottles.  There were fourteen quarts.

While Carol was processing the tomatoes,  I picked two buckets of these large Roma type tomatoes.  I put the in the trunk and was ready drive one block north where one of our friends live.  I started to back out of the garage, she and another friends walked up pushing a stroller and a new baby tied in front of her.  Her husband helped build our patio.  She wanted to see our gardens.  I showed them our gardens.

Before lunch I removed all the irrigation pipes and put them away for the next water turn.  That may not happen until next spring.

One of the last things that we looked at was the Italian squash.  Pictured below is the hoop house.

Later in the day we drove to Fillmore to make a bank deposit and two by a few things at the hardware store.  Tonight we picked more cucumbers.  Hope to get rid of them tomorrow.

Comments and questions are welcomed.