Started Another Day & a Surprise

I watched my Saturday morning woodworking shows this morning.  Two of them were reruns and the other one had some new things woodworking techniques.

I sprayed the morning glory that were near the pole beans I planted a month ago.  I must have killed some of the pole beans, because some of them have died.  I plant new ones this morning.  Most hills  have two seeds, but this one has three.

 I removed the cover that shaded the tomato plants.  The plants are growing and doing well.  I put an upside down  tree basket on each plant.  On one plant I used three baskets.  No pictures.

The picture shows the two rows of tomatoes.  In the bottom left hand corner is a basket.

The above photo shows the three baskets and how they are stacked.   The rest of the plants are  covered with one basket upside down.

 

 

I put a shade basket one of the gardenias.  I also hooked drip and noodle  to keep them wet.  I think that it took me an hour two find the tool to insert the noodle in the main line.  I looked everywhere two times and finally I found it.

While doing the above, I watered the strawberry plants.

Carol asked me to remove all unwanted shrubs and trees east pf the house.  Most were honey suckle and Golden rain tree.  I dug them out or cut them at ground level.  I painted the stump with round up.  I then drug them to the shredder and it cut them into pieces.  I also, removed a lot of dead rose stems and branches.

I hung a wire netting on the south side of the arches on the south side of house six.  It took three panels to reach east to west.  It was difficult to hang them on the posts without any help.  They were stored by the shed.

I put out a drip line under the wire netting.  I turned on the water and hopefully the ground will be a little soft for the planting of the cucumbers.


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Transplanted the Blue Lake Pole Beans

Some friends of ours, the Richardsons, needed some cucumbers.

I picked four nice ones that were in house two.  They are 12 to 14 inches long.  

We drove to Fillmore for a few groceries this morning.  

I planted Blue Lake Pole beans several months ago.  They are large enough with a good root structure to transplant into raised be #1.

I made some holes with the dibbler.  It is hard to see the black holes in the black soil.  The red arrow points to two of them.

The hole and the bean plug are mate perfectly.  There are six cells in the six pack.  Some insect of slug ate off the leaves of one of them.  Hence, only five plants.  They will climb the twine in back of them.

I dug up the largest leek that I have ever grown.  It is laying on the 1206 tray which is 20 inches long.  I cut off the roots and soil.

I cut off the top and cleaned it up.

I shredded more papers this afternoon.  Raised bed #3 is completely covered with shredded papers.

I harvest some Italian parsley.  It has a nice flavor.

We had a little snow around twelve today.


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Farmer's Market, Orem or Provo

I've been researching the farmer's market in Utah County.  Orignally I was going to go to the one in Orem just north of the University Mall.  I would have driven up this afternoon and got home around ten. That trip would have been to hard on Carol.  The next one is in Provo in the morning.  I asked Robert if he would get the produce and be at the Pioneer park at seven in the morning.  He agreed and he was here at nine and went back home at 9:45 loaded with cucumbers and tomatoes.

 As soon as breakfast and few chores were over I picked the cucumbers.  They hadn't been picked for several day, so there were a lot of them.

 Carol took the above cucumbers to the post office.  They were all gone except for two, when I went back to get the tote.

Dianne and Violet came to pick the tomatoes.  The above picture show the produce that they will take to the market in the morning.

The trays above  are the ones that I kept and Robert is taking them to the Provo market.

These State Fair Zinnias are so pretty.  I had to take a picture.

I planted another tray of Detroit Red Beets.  The one next in line is what I planted last Saturday.



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Not too Much of Anything

I got home from the temple about 1:30.  Did the watering and had some lunch.

While doing the watering I got a good look at the cumbers.  I picked seven large cucumbers and wrapped them in Press & Seal.  They are in the fridge.  The wrap keeps them from loosing moisture.

The chickens are now flying and a couple of them have flown on top of the grape plants.  I got a couple of 2x4's to brace up the vines.  As the grape vines grow the will make sort of a canopy over the chicken run.  Also, I was able to pull the plastic netting up to the roof of the shade area.  

I started the lawnmower and it started right up.  I turned of the key.  I have asked Richard, my neighbor to give me help.

The seedless locust tree has quit shedding.  I blew it off with my electric blower.  

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Changed the Oil and Mowed the Lawn

After morning chores and breakfast, I hung more tomatoes and cucumber plants.

The Sun Gold tomatoes are beginning to get ripe.  Can't wait.  I notice one yesterday, now three or four plants have ripening tomatoes. 

I finished cleaning off the lawn.  There was a large triangular piece of plywood that into 3 1/2 half inch squares.  I use the as a footing for the posts in house one.

Yesterday I transplanted these watermelon seedlings.  They are still looking good.  They are outside in the shade.

This large cactus has a lot of pups growing on it, plus a lot of weeds.  I removed weeds in many of the plants and it the same here.  I was going to break off all the pups, and let them scab some and then plant each in their own pot.

These are squash plants.  They have been outside for over a month.  They will take off when planted in the garden.

This has been and interesting tomato plant.   A late volunteer which had one tomato about the size of the smaller ones in the photo.  They have been getting ripe all spring in house one.  They were only one small bite.  It looked to me that it would take to long to fill a pint container.  Therefore, I would not try to propagate it.  When I saw this big one I changed my mind.

I took three cuttings and stuck them in this quart bottle.  They wilted some so I put them in the outside shade.  For fun I took a cutting from a cucumber plant.  Speaking of cucumbers, I picked three nice ones.

I decided to mow the lawn.  I raised the blade up one notch.  I dumped the grass in the garden.  The mower worked pretty good at first, but by the time I was finished, it was not doing as well.  Gasoline was in the oil again.  I started mowing before lunch.

For lunch I made this salad.  Most everything is from our garden.  Sun flower seeds and eggs are from the market.

The dracaena was taken from house two and planted west of the driveway.  The pot is buried in the ground so it won't blow over.

A few other plants were removed from house two and put on the front steps.

I sprayed the morning glory in the north garden.  There five big patches and I sprayed individual plant in other parts of the garden.

I made another pair of posts.  I cut some plywood that was part of the truck box into rectangular pieces that were 16x24 inches.  The one in the picture looks a little big.

At different times during the day I hung tomato and cucumber plants.

These native iris were full of weeds.  I took  some time this late afternoon to pull them out.


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Surprised - Frank and Diane

Nyleen and Miles came this morning.  He brought his clippers and I got a haircut.  Also, they came for a dozen tomato plants.  We were visiting and relating temple experiences.

The surprise, Nyleen and Miles saw a man walk past our south door.  I thought maybe it was a custumor, but the surprise was Frank.  I walked out the nursery and began the work of transplanting the cucumber plants in house six.

I stared out this morning by working in house one.  It was much cooler and I had a lot to do.  I wanted to brace the posts.  I had used a 1x4 and drilled holes through each end and drove screws through the hole into the posts.  Today I ripped the 1x4's in half.  

these hog panels were being held up by two 6 1/2 tee posts.  I soaked the ground where the

This is where I will plant two rows of grrapes.  The photo above is taken from the west end of the garden looking east.  The two tee posts, one on the left and the other on the right, and a blue twine is tired to the ones on the east end.  I used and eight foot 2x2 to measure the distance between each post.  the rows are six feet apart.  I marked the location of the post by removing a shovel full of soil.  The grape plant will be planted between each post.

 Diane cleaned a row in house six for the cucumbers.  The cucumbers were planted eighteen inches apart. The drip tape was put down and the water turned on.

 We got a package from Maison, our grand daughter, containing two mother's days cookies.  One above and one below.  Eric and April ordered them to give to Carol for mother's day.

 Maison's business card is above.  She has a talent for decorating cookies and cupcakes.

At the end of the day, the cub scouts came and I explained the nursery business to them and named most of the plants that we have.  I gave each of them two shopping bags with a head of leaf lettuce in each bag.



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Happenings All Day Long

We picked the pole beans this morning.  There are two types.  One is more round and the other one is flat.  They are pictures below.  The seed for the round beans came from Mountain Valley Seeds.  They were started in the greenhouse in March.  We had some cold weather after I planted them.  I put too much liquied fertilizer on the them and some of them died.  The flat seed came from Walmart.  They were plan ted later.  It took booth of them a long time to produce some beans.  I boiled the flat beans for about twenty minutes a couple days ago.  I salted and buttered them, they were still a little hard.  Today, I boiled them twenty more minutes; buttered and salted them again.  They just did not taste like the round pole beans.

We picked all the round beans, Carol washed them and they are pictured below.  We were going to take them to one of our neighbors across town.  They were not home.

We picked all of the burpless cucumbers.  We bagged them up and Carol took them to another neighbor. 

Carol picked the summer squash.  The squash vines are still growing and I the new growth to the stake.  I then removed the lower leave

I tied the watermelon up a little higer so that their was some space between the melon and the ground.

This watermelon is growing bigger each day. I take pictures every day.

Same with the pumpkin.

Here is a different kind of pumpkin.  I am not sure which this is.

We are going to the temple in the morning and we leave a little after four.  We can't pick in the morning, so I picked tonight.  I got two full buckets.

 Carol washed them and I put them in the totes.  I then took them to the post office where we hope that they will be gone by tomorrow evening.

 Those that were extra large were cut in half and given to the chickens.

The chickens really went after the cucumber seeds.

 On pinterest, they showed a bottle full of chicken scratch.  The purpose is to prevent chick borddem. There are some large hole in the side of the bottle.  The chicken try to get the scratch.  Now they are scared of it and you can see the grain around the bottle.