Garden clean-up

 After it warmed up some I went to work in the garden.  I have been removing plant material to help be ready for spring.

I cut down all of the corn.  It froze over a month ago and much of the stalks had dried.  I cut them down and hauled them to the compost pile.

I picked the corn and shucked it.  It was surprising to find large ears of what looked like good corn.  There were two ears that didn't look to good.  I gave it to our chickens.  They went right after them.

The kidney had some nice geraniums.  I started to pull them.  Most came quite easily.  They were pretty wet and my gloves got wet.  I dug the rest of them up with a shovel.  I cut down the frozen chrysanthemum. I put them on a burlap tarp and put them on then compost pile.

There were geraniums under both of the north baywindows.

There is a waterline that I thought might freeze and break during then winter.  I dug up the end of the pipe.  There was a plug in the end just after the hose bib.  My adjustable wrench couldn't hold the plug.  I can't find my smaller pipe wrench.  I got the big on and was able to unscrew the plug.  I found a couple of PVC parts.

I bailed out the water and was able to install a drain.

I cut and dug out the chole crops.  There is one left on this row.  I have to leave something to do tomorrow.  

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What Should I Do Today

Yesterday, I got my blue chisels out.  I watched four or five You Tube videos.  They were pretty, but took a long time.  I couldn't see a good way to make something.  I finally come up with what I thought was a good plan.

I made a rack with two pieces of wood with three short spacers.  One each end and one in the middle hooked together with three screws.    I devised a way to hold it in place.  A small piece of wood was fasten at each end that went across the front and back.  A heavy object was placed on it on the other side. 

I walked out to house six and watered the tomato plants.  All of the blossoms have been harvested and the bag and pots emptied.  The potting soil is on the right side.  They are bring in more plants.

Dustin has removed his shirt while emptying the pots in house five.

Whenever I work with wood in the garage which is most of the time, it gets really dusty.  Sometime ago I bought a furnace filter to use in the garage.  I attached it to a twenty inch window fan with duck tape.  There are two strips on each edge of the fan.

 Here is a photo show the other side.  The air would blow in the facing directions.

There is so much scrap wood on the back half of the garage, thought I would make a box with shelves or compartments to hold the various sizes.   I cut some piece of plywood to the correct sizes need.  The I asked myself.  "Where am I going to put the box?"  There wasn't any place.  Therefore, I begin to move wood and make a place.  I moved wood around.  That didn't help either.  There was a lot of scrap wood around my radial arm saw.  I took the above photo after I had moved most of the wood.  There were a lot of pieces of lath.  They were used to mark all of the iris plants that I bought when we moved here over twenty years ago.   They are going out to the shed.

This is how it looked when if finished.  I ended up with a garbage can half full of sawdust.


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The Man From the Bank

The chickens are really doing well.  Seven chickens, and yesterday there were seven eggs and today they laid six.   I am expecting Trent Anderson from Zion's Bank in Delta.  He helped complete the papers.   Carol was gone and he and I worked for over an hour on them.

This morning we took our garbage to the they.  The dumpster was only one fourth full.  The picture above shows the other dumpster with just a few things in it.  I also took two pallets to the landfill.  I have two tires and about seven gallons of used motor oil that I want to get rid of.

I hauled these cardboard boxes to the west compost pile.  More cleaning of house five.  There was a couple of boxes of fire wood in house five that were wet all winter. The boxes fell apart.  I put them in new boxes.

I hauled the boxes to the west compost pile.

I took another pallet apart.  I used the skill saw to cut it apart.  I have quite a few pieces for making small stools.


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Clean Garage & House Two

The tub facet is partially plugged with calcium salts.  When the water is turned on, some comes out the shower which is not wanted when have a bath.  With a large pipe wrench, I took off the corroded one and drove to Fillmore and stopped at Ropers for a new facet.

I screwed on the new facet as far as I could without a wrench.   I then wrapped it with duck tape.  I did not want to scratch the facet.  I was able to get it quite tight.  I pulled off the tape.

I removed most of the trays and dead plant that were on the heating bench to make room for the more trays of plants that had germinated and didn't need the heat anymore.

The above photo is an expanded view of the heating bench.

I watered the strawberry plants that were in house six.  This is the first time that I have watered them since bringing them inside over a month ago.

The was so much junk on my workbench in the garage that I could not use it as a place to work.  Many of the things there I put away.  If needed they are in my large tool box.

The top of the table saw was covered with more stuff.  a lot of scraps of wood.  There is a box for the wood under the left side of the saw.


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Tomato Plants - Gone

A little cool this morning.  The tomato plants in a quart bottle in the kitchen window are rooting nicely.

I put them in these square pots.  The photo doesn't show to much, but in a couple of weeks they will be doing well.

The transplants are a clone of the tomatoes in the above basket.

I transplanted these butterfly bushes yesterday.  This morning I used two bamboo stakes to hold them upright.

Next, I removed all of the tomato plants on the row on the right side except six on the north end.  I was coming back after lunch to finish, but that didn't happen.

While removing the tomato plants there were some that looked like there was no frost damage.  I will check them after they have turned red to see how they taste.

We began removing tomato plants in the west garden.  They were held up with tomato cages made with tree baskets. It was pretty warm so I removed my coat.

the dead tomato plants are laying on the ground.  The conduit pipes were in the ground nearly three feet.  With a pair of vice grips, I was able to pull them out.

I put the tomato vines on the west side of the garden where I have been growing pinion pines and Utah Junipers.  I hope they decay some during the winter.

A view from the west side looking back towards the garage.  The tomato vines are gone.

The tomato cages are on the weed barrier waiting for next year.


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Zinnias, Customer, and Weeds

I got one row ready to plant. I put down pink tape every 18 inches and held them down with a nail.  A tomato plant is placed at each marker.  There are five plants between each post.  I secured the post with a piece of conduit and tie wire.

The posts were not plumb.  I wired a wedge to help hold it plum.

I planted some County Fair Zinnias a couple of weeks ago and transplanted them in to on tray of Jumbo six packs. And another tray of six pack of slim Jims.

 Fremont barberries are new in the above tray.  The old ones are Round leaf Buffaloberry. 

The flowers from an Oak tree in our yard.

Flowers from the Big Tooth maple in our yard.  I little hard to see.  

The early spring look of Stansbury rock daisy, Perityle stansburyi.

How it looks after I cut off all the dead stems.

The above picture and the two below is of the weeding I done on the north native plant garden.

I don't know the name of this plant there are two specimens side by side.  It is a milkweed that bleeds when it is cut.  The milk weed is another one that has to be dug out by the root, if not the weed will grow back.  The seeds blow in the wind.

I dug this type of milk weed up by the roots.  This is about the only war to kill it.

Dug up weeds in the south garden.  There are still a lot more to go.

A Fern Leaf Peonie  which is in full bloom.  Quite a history with this plant.  Got a start from a neighbor, planted it in my yard in American Fork, brought it with us when we moved to Holden, and moved it once to the present location in our backyard.

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