Onions & Corn

Shower, Scriptures, Breakfast, & News as usual.  We grow to the Fillmore Market every Friday morning.  We were the first customers in the store.  By the time we finished our shopping there were more customers.  When we got home I went out to the garden.  The first thing was to plant the onions that I bought yesterday.

The tiller worked quite well.

The row of potatoes to the right which were planted over a month ago were starting to come up.  I watered them for the first time earlier this week.  I tilled  the row for the onions.  The tiller started right up when I slid the choke and pulled the crank rope.  I went up and back two times.

There were a couple of asparagus plants that had new shoots.  I picked all of the asparagus that was ready.  Carol prepared them for me for lunch.

I used a rake to pull out the soil which left a farrow.  I got me a chair to sit on.  I cut off most of onion tops.  I removed the rubber band which held the bunch together.  I pulled the onions apart.  With dibble I made a hole for each onions.  They were planted about three inches apart.

I inserted an onion in each hole.  I pressed the soil around the onion and tried to keep it fairly straight up.  The two bunches of onions took most of the row.

I started running water down the row.

The above photo shows water at the end of the row.   We had lunch.

Not a good photo.  Carol finished the puzzle this morning.  After lunch we went out to the garden.

The sweet corn is ready to plant.  I made two more rows.  I planted the early corn half way up the rows and the later corn in the bottom half of the rows.

The water is running down the corn rows.

Another photo.

Still another row with the water.  Carol helped me with the corn. 

 This is a row before any water.  I made the hole with a garden trowel and Carol pulled the corn plant out of the six pack and put it near the hole.  Sometimes she would hand me the corn plant.

 It is finished.

I did all of the trimming- before I did the mowing.   I was able to mow faster because the trimming was done.

I finished the mowing.

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Broken Pipe

We did then Monday morning chores. They are washing and ironing, just one white shirt and Carol did that.  I vacuumed and swept the floor.  Every time I went out to house two, I killed leaf miner flies with the zinger.  I called it a zapper in earlier posting.  We went to Fillmore where I bought bunch onion seeds and come PVC cement.

We had a cold spell about a month ago.  I have several hose bibs that are on a little to keep the pipes from freezing.  In the evening when  locked up the chickens, I could see that the running water for the chickens was frozen.  I thawed it out with hot water.  This was when the above pipe froze.  You see in the above photo all of the ice.  This pipe froze and instead of breaking the freezing pushed the cap and nipple up a little.  When it thawed the   We
have had a couple of warm day.  I shut off the water and pulled out that short nipple.  I glued it back together.

I ran a sprinkler on the south side of house six.  Last week dug some holes for some posts.  The solid was had and dry.  The sprinklers softened the soil so I was able to dig without much difficulty.

I planted 4-6 White Lisbon bunching onions seeds in each cell.  I should of planted some six weeks ago, but forgot to get some seeds.  I bought seeds in Fillmore this morning.  There are 105 cells in this tray,

I found three pomegranate buds in the bush.  I will keep a close watch for aphids.

I picked a CSA bag for Thayne and Kim Christensen from Kanosh.  I forgot to take the picture when they were all in one tray.


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