Two Trips to Fillmore

The night was a little warmer.   The house temperature was seventy-two degrees.  I didn't turn on the furnace.  We have had the fan on but haven't turned on the AC yet.  I planted another row of crimson sweet watermelons in the south garden. I was going to come back after they were watered to take a picture, but I forgot.  It was 9:30 when we drove to Fillmore to get a few groceries and greeting cards.  We got a lot more groceries than a few.  We wanted chrysanthemums.  The had two but are getting more this afternoon.  They got a pallet of them yesterday.  Three large boxes of mums froze.  We then went to the drug store for birthday cards.  We then came home.  I made an appointment at the dental office to have my teeth fixed.

I did weeds.  This picture is west of house five looking towards the sun which makes it a little blurry.  I dug up the foxtail grass.  I want to do more.

There are a lot of landscape rocks.  I pulled up the foxtail grass.  It is piled up on the right side of the picture.  We went back to Fillmore at four to get the chrysanthemums.  They were in the truck which was parked in the parking lot.  We waited for a while and then got ice cream cones.  We drove around Fillmore while we ate our cones.  We then decided to go home and come back in the morning for the mums.

We got this weed eater string on our first trip to Fillmore this morning.

We got a call from Richard this morning telling us that Carol's brother, Gary passed a way this morning.  Carol has talked on the phone to her sister and other family members of his passing.

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An Unplanned Event Again

Today is Saturday and I have three TV show that I watch every Saturday.  The last several times have been reruns.  Today, they were all new.  I did the watering before breakfast and took the garbage out to the dumpster before the show was to start.  Carol was picking peas so I went out to help.  We picked a nice batch from the vines in our garden.  I missed the first ten minutes of the first show.

Carol was cleaning the patio.  I got the blower and she blew off all the leaves and stuff.   She said that she would then clean off the steps that went down to the crawl space under our house.  I got a large flat edge shovel and began to remove the leaves and dirt that has accumulated of the last two years.  There were a lot of worms in the rotting leaves and dirt.  I scooped up a bunch in the shovel and took it out to the chickens.  I thought the chickens would grab those large night crawlers and run, but they were pretty cautious.  The above photo shows mostly cleaned steps.

I put them in a blue tub and put is on the flat wheelbarrow and took them out to the compost pile.  I thought that the worms would help in the decomposition of the compost.

I took a shovelful to the compost pile in the north end of house two.

Carol did a good job at cleaning the patio.

Before lunch I transplanted about fifty eggplants on the north side of house six.  There are two rows of plants north of the post on the right.  The first row are pepper plants that are doing well.  The second row are the egg plants.

I mowed the lawn and walked past the Perityle stansburyi plant.  It will soon be blooming.

After lunch I mowed the lawn.  I am getting pretty good mowing the lawn with the new mower.  I like to make my lines straight.  It took me a little over two hours to mow and trim.

When that was over I cut the weeds next to the road north of the greenhouses one, two, and three.  I gassed up twice and replaced the cutting string twice.

I found these orange foxtail lilies north of house one against the fence.  I haven't been back there for nearly two monthsl

The last thing in the garden is the planting of some watermelon.  I ran the tiller up and down an old row and made a new row and put in the watermelon plants.

It has been unusually cold for this time of the year.  We haven't turned on the AC this year.


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It is Growing

Some of the plants in our yard.

 Two of the many Columbines between the garage and our house.  They are pretty perennials that are attractive from early in the spring until mid-summer.  After that the seeds are spread.  Stems and leaves are old.  They look pretty ugly.   When cut down at this time, new lush leaves will begin to grow.

Yesterday morning, we planted these Wave petunias that we bought at Hansen nursery near Payson.  We planted them in front of the bay windows on the north side of our house.  This is the first time in years that we have had to buy bedding plants.

We have had this salvia perennial for years.  It blooms every year at the end of May.  It frequently reseeds its self.  Some we have to remove.

I have been closely watching the tough plant.  it is a Stansbury Rock-daisy, Perityle stansburyi.  Such a pretty lime colored perennial.

A couple of weeks ago I bought these Crimson Sweet watermelon seeds.  There are four jumbo six packs.  I planted on seed in each cell.  With a few seeds left over they became the second seed in some of the cells.  They are doing well

These six cucumber plants are producing a lot of foot long seedless cucumbers.  They are visible in the above photo.  The vines are over five feet tall.

Some of the cucumber plants in house one are over twelve inches tall.  I saw one cucumber about and inch long.  In a couple weeks they should be producing cucumbers.   Neither one has been hooked to the twine trellis.

 Above are some of the vine crops, ieg, melons, squash, etc.

I ordered these strawberry plants several months ago.  They should have been planted three months ago.

The above tomato plants are in house one.  The weeds were really bad so I sprayed them with roundup.  I sprayed the weeds in the pathway and on weeds between the two rows of tomato plants. Some of the spray got on the lower leaves of a couple of plants.  It looks like they are dying.

I planted this sweet potato start early in April.  I thought that it had died.  Today there is some new leaves.  It has survived snow, frost, and drought.  

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Preparing Grape Trailis

I was out in the garden this morning digging weeds waiting for Richard.  I then came in and started breakfast.  Richard came.  I turned off the stove where I was making oat mush and went out to help drive in the tee posts.  we worked out there for over an hour.

We worked in the south garden for over two hours.  I found a couple of  6 1/2 foot post.  We did not have enough.  Richard took home his six foot post that he brought yesterday and brought a few more post that were a little longer.  I found a ten foot post.  I cut three feet of the end of it for a seven foot post.   We drove in all of them or I should say that I drove a little bit.  He drove the most.

The posts are eight feet apart and there is six feet between the two rows.  The above photo shows the six foot isle between the two rows.

I use the blue twine to help keep the post in a straight row.  I rolled it up to use it again somewhere else.

The peas and onions have been watered by the rain and I used a hose and water breaker water them well.  Today, I made a dike on both sides of the onions and on both sides of the peas.  I then run water from the rows.  It took most of the day to get them wet.

I finished breakfast.



around two this afternoon we drove to Fillmore for some zip ties and the plastic boxes.  The boxes had not come.  We got gas and came home.

I made a few more tomahooks.

I bought 25 eight inch zip ties. I then bought 100 5 7/8 inches long.  They were way to short.  The eight inch ones were perfect.  I put them around the purlins above the cucumber plants



I dug and pulled weeds around an asparagus plant.

I picked a few asparagus spears and cooked them for lunch.

I bought some crimson sweet watermelon seeds.  They are pictured above.  I planted some old seed earlier.  They should have been planted several weeks ago.