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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Completed One Thing After Another

Watched the new, had breakfast, and went to work.

Yesterday, when I let the chickens out of the hen house, there was a lot of water running.  The above picture is pretty fuzzy, but there was a breach in the pipe in the center and a little bit to the left.  I shut off the water and  started to dig up the pipe.  I had to bail out a lot of water, but finally got it.

I dug up the pipe and pulled it loose.  Inside the ell there is a white PVC that brings the water from house four.  It is a pretty muddy mess.  I washed the two ends that will be joined together.  I went to work on another project to let it dry up.

Last week I covered the carrots with black folded weed barrier.  This morning I began building a poly cover.

The above photo shows the completed project.  Under the poly is the black weed barrier, and under that are the carrots.  They will be protected from and freezing this winter.

I made weights out of several 2x4's that were nearly seven feet long.  There are two pieces on each side.  The poly is put between the two pieces and held together by screws.  

There were two conduit pipes that were two tall.  One on each side.  I pulled the up and cut off about twelve inches.  I then drove them into the ground so the top was a little bit below the to of the raised bed.  The poly easily covers the weed barrier s show in the photo at the beginning of this section.  

Back to the chicken run and the water pipe.  It was pretty dry.  I applied cement two each end of the pipe, pushed them together, and twisted a little so the hose bib was pointed up.  I was going to turn on the water tonight but forgot.

I cut down the rest of the corn on this row which was frozen several weeks ago..  I put it on a compost pile north of the north garden.

 I found four ears of corn that looked like they might be good eating.  I got a picture of only one.  I ate one for lunch which tasted pretty good.  There is a possibility of  a late planting of corn that matures and then there is a frost the kills the corn.  It could it stay in the garden and few ears could be picked each day for dinner.

I stacked these tree baskets on a piece of plywood.

I am considering making a lean to greenhouse either on the west side of the garage or the south end of the garage.

I have five fifty-five gallon barrels that could be filled with water and place inside of the greenhouse to help keep the green house warm during the winter.  A bench would  be on top of the barrels.

Five upright barrels side to side in straight line would require a greenhouse fifteen feet wide.

The above photo is at the south end of the garage.  If the greenhouse were place here there could be three barrels on the west side and two barrels on the east side.  Benches could be on top of the barrels.

Now to house six.  The elder berry shrub was cut down several weeks ago.  It took me a couple of hours to remove all of the branches and leaves.

I started picking up a couple of branches and carried them to house five.  Instead, I got the tarp and filled it with branches and leaves and drug it to the shredder.  It took several trips.  I made several trips with the wheel barrow full of leaves and short stems.

I cut off all the branches almost to the ground.  Then I painted the stems with round-up.

I cut the large trunks that were on the out side.  I also painted them with round-up.

I cleaned up all the stems and leaves and put the bench on four blocks.


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Pole Beans, Onions, and Sweet Corn

A lot to do today.  I watched a little of the news while eating breakfast.

Richard came over the first thing this morning and worked on the tiller.  He put a capful of B-12.  It is to clean out the carburetor.   He started the tiller and it was the same.  It sounded like it would get a burst of gas and then all small part of gas.  He thought that we should do some tilling.  He pushed to house six and tilled a strip on the south side.  It worked pretty good.  We then brought it back to house two.

I had four trays of onions that were getting pretty big.  I planted the Walla Walla first.  No pictures yet.  Nest was the Candy onions, and last were the Kelso onions.  The photo above shows the Kelso onions.  I planted two rows in the same wide furrow.  They were about four inches apart.  The Kelso onion is supposed to be the largest onions.    Some of the onions were over twelve inches long.  They were also root bound.  I cut off the tops and the part of the roots.

This shows a six pack of onions.    I had to cut each cell in the six pack to get the plant out.  They were so root bound that they were wedged in the cell.

I cut off the tops of all six plants with my scissors at the same time.

He is a comparison of to plants.  On the left the roots of the onion are not cut.  On the right the roots are cut.

 Here are the Candy onions after being watered.

 I planted the pole beans.  These are planted in the hoop house.  There is one tray of plants.

This shows the hoops and the bean plants on both sides.

Carol and I dug out the weeds around the Irises and in other areas of the garden.

Next is the sweet corn.  I tilled up and down and then back between the two passes with the tiller.

The tiller worked pretty good.  It ran better than it did this morning.

Planting the corn.

Watering the corn.

 More watering.

I prepared some vegetables for Thayne Christenson.


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Back Breaking Shovel

We woke up this morning with a pleasant surprise.  There was nearly five inches of snow on our driveway.  It was just barely getting light when I tried to push it off the driveway, but it was heavy and wearing clogs I had no traction.  I quit and we had breakfast.

The above photo shows our neighbor's house and the snow west of our driveway.

I pushed off the snow with my little hand held plow.  I pushed from the middle of the driveway in both directions.  My neighbor has a nice four wheeler.  He bought a new plow for it and tried it out on our driveway.  He also plowed the driveway in front of our house.

 The shredder was full from last night.  I dumped it on the snow on top of the other shreds.

Some of the snow and ice has melted a little.  After lunch, I cleaned off the driveway again.

Our neighbor made one pass with the plow.  When he got to the road, the blade hooked on the asphalt and stopped.  He pushed harder and the four wheeler nearly over turned.  The cable winch which lowered and raised the plow broke.  He went home, fixed it and then came back and finished.

I made a path through the snow to the greenhouses.

I made a path through the snow between house two and house six.

 The pole beans that I planted Monday are germinating.

There are two plantings of Peaches and Cream sweet corn have about died.  It was disappointing that they didn't produce some corn.  They tasseled and produced silk, but there was no pollination.  In the top right of the picture there are the yellow corn stalks.

I bundled up the corn and put it on the compost pile which is covered with snow west of house six.


Comments and questions are welcome.