Rain, Rain, & Sunshine

There was rain and lightning, thunder, and rain during the night and more rain this morning.

I worked in house two for a couple of hours.  It was cool during the night and house two is cold.  I even shut the north door.  I removed a large dead tomato plant and cleaned away weeds and dead plant material.

I started to dig up the rest of leek plants.  I quit before I finished and started pulling weeds.

At the top of this photo are salad onions that went to seed.  I removed them an put them in the compost pile.  Burpless cucumber vines are at the bottom of the picture.  There were some cucumbers growing on them.  I moved them out of the way and cleaned the dead plants underneath.  I then put them back.

I call this tomato plant the purple plum.  It produced some of the first tomatoes this year.  I quit watering them a month ago.  They are hanging on a vertical trellis.

 

A fuzzy picture of the other cucumbers.  I hope to remove these ands start some new ones.

At eleven we drove to Fillmore for groceries.  We also stopped at the Southern Utah State bank for some cash.  While there I got a couple of CSA buckets from Kim.  

Our broken garbage disposal was leaking.  I got a cork at Ropers to stop the leak.   The cork is placed in the nipple for the dishwasher discharge.

 There are six melon varities in the north garden.  For some reason there is a split in the blossom end.

This one has a double split.

The Boxelder tree is hanging down so low that I have to bend to walk through them.  I cut the off this morning.

Even though it rained most of the morning.  The grass felt quite dry.  I mowed the lawn and finished in time for the 5:30 news.  It was really tall.  I usually set the mower blade at three inches.  The weather is cooler now and has been well irrigated, I decided to lower the blade a half inch.

I dumped the grass bags four times.  I mulch between the rows of tomatoes and eggplants.  I have pretty good weed control on the north side.

There are no new deer tracks in the wet soil our yard today.  This is day three.   I hope my fishing line fence is working.


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Harvest Dinner

A good day at the temple as usual.  On the way home, we stopped at the High Spot for ice cream, as usual.  No photos not as usual.

Soon as we got home, I changed clothes and picked tomatoes and cucumbers.  They are for the harvest dinner at the church.  It was going to be in the parking lot east of our church building.  The wind was blowing.  Table covers and decorations would blow off the tables.  Everything was move inside.  Many ward members brought their harvest.  Mainly tomatoes and cucumbers.  Others brought home made deserts.  The ward bought the meat, rolls and sweet corn.  The sweet corn was very good.  Different ward groups helped with setting up, serving and cleaning up after it was over.

We took two large trays of sliced tomatoes.  Four containers of sliced cucumbers.

The was no evidence of deer in our yard.  This is day two.

Irrigation and Clean-up

Sunday Morning:
We had our last irrigation today.  Robert, the water master, called a couple of days ago that we would have the water this morning.   I usually take the water first, but this morning Raymond had the water first.  He lets it run on his trees.  Then both of us could attend our church meetings.  After dinner I took the water which was a little past two.  Then for the rest of the day I was directing water.  First on the back lawn. Then on the east lawn and west of the garage at the same time.  The last part watered was the front lawn.  I spent the rest of day directing water and moving pipes around to get the water to go where I want it to go.  The water was shut off at seven.

I am impressed with the Green arrow peas that I planted several months ago.  Our first crop of peas were picked.  There were some that we missed and when I dug up the plants I saved all the peas that were too old to eat.    I soaked them in water with the intent to make split pea soup.  They then were put in the fridge where I forgot about them.  They had sprouted and I was going to throw them away.  Carol said that I should plant them.  I planted some in house six and some in the raised bed in the north garden.  The have done well in spite of high temperatures.    They are not starting to bloom.  it is hard to see the blooms in the picture.

Monday morning:
I put all the pipes away.  There are three places where I put them until the next water turn.  The next turn will be next spring.  The photo is west of the hen house.  I keep some in the orchard.  Then the rest are east of the snail hill.

I picked a bucket of cucumbers.  We drove to Fillmore for a few groceries, gas, and I made a deposit at the credit union.  We had lunch.

The deer are eating almost everything in the garden.  I heard on Face Book that one person used fishing string around his garden.  I drove conduit stake in the ground from the south fence to the rose bushes in the north garden.

The above picture shows the fishing string.  On the west side of the far south garden.

Here is s closer look of the string.  there is five layers.

A couple of days ago the wind blew really hard and blew the poly off house one.   The above photo is looking to the north end.

Here is photo looking at the south end.


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