Today we washed the sheets.  Carol started before breakfast and we finished after breakfast.  I say we because I helped her make the bed.

I wanted to moved the poultry wire in the chicken run all spring.  It has been to wet and muddy.  Today was a nice dry day.  The wire was twisted and there was a lot of dry and green grape vines growing through it.  I addition the were hog wires holding them together.  I used wire cutters and pruners to free the wire.

I think that it took a couple of hours.  Now I can gather the eggs without having to bend under the wires.  The above photo shows how much better it now looks.

I planted corn last week.  I had two packets of Blue Lake Pole beans.  I planned to plant two 1206 trays.  I filled a tray with potting soil and compressed the soil with my golf ball tool.

There was not enough seeds to plant two seeds in each tray let a lone three seeds that I wanted.  I guess I will be ordering more seeds.

Both trays of sweet corn are coming up.

I watched You Tube videos about French clefts and wanted to put one in the appliance garage to hold a vegetable cutter.  The appliance garage has to much stuff in it.    I redesigned it many times.  Took it out and put it back in several different places.  I went back and forth to garage to house and back to the garage to get tools and cut the wood differently.  After many tries I got it done.

Moving the compost from the road to the garden was another job I wanted to do.  After supper I started up the tractor with the intent to put the compost in the raised bed where I am planting strawberry plants.  I thought that I would get would bucket for the garden.

I ended up with about five loads.  I hope to move all of the compost by the road to the garden.



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Long Day at Work

Another day of going to work in the greenhouses as soon as it gets light.  Later in the morning it gets pretty hot.

The weeds in house one have grown humngus.  It took me about an our to get most of the weeds.  I put them in the composting box which I water several time a day.  It doesn't get any higher.  From here I went to breakfast.

After breakfast I began working in house six.  There were a bunch of tomato plants that put in there early last week.  I propped them up with a tomato clip attached to a bamboo stake.  Today I clamped them the trellis twine to hold them upright.

I carried all of the plants and weeds out the west door that I cut down last week.  They are in a pilee hoping to turn into compost. 

I don't know the name of the this plant but it is in the cabbage family.  I cut them down with a large lopper.  Then I picked them up and carried them out the west door.  There was about twenty plants.  

This how it looks after I was finished.   The cabbage like plants were in the empty space on the left.

 There are grass weed toward the end that I wanted to take out.  They were being watered with the kohlrabi.  I want them to dry up before.  I cut the drip tape and folded it three times and then wrapped it with electrical tape.  I saw that being done on a YouTube video.  I didn't work for me. When I turned on the water, the water began to spurt.

I then put on a pair of end plugs.  The leaked some.  Now the tall grass weeds will dry out some.

I looked in house two and the plants were quite droopy.  I stopped what I was doing water everything in house two.

This snail was crossing the side walk by the back porch.  I put it in the garbage. 

I picked the cucumbers.  It filled a tote to over flowing.  Some of them were on the ground and were dirty.  I put them on the wheel barrow and washed them.  I put them back into the tote and covered the tote with plastic wrap.

 I drove to Fillmore for a bunch of things including poultry netting.  I spent most of the afternoon covering the north end of the chicken run with the netting.

I stretched a wire from the garage to the hen house.  It come loose and I had to get on top of the hen house to fix it.  

From the north side of the hen house.

This not too bright picture shows how it looks when I finished.

I destroyed a wasp nest at the back of the hen house.  Also, there is a nest under the bottom step of my step ladder.  The ladder was in house six standing up and the wasp found  a place at the bottom.


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