Rain, Planting, and Cutting.

I planned on going to Fillmore this afternoon to get a cattle panel.   Carol needed some potato chips and suggested that I go this morning before it rained.   I went this morning and got the chips at the market and got the cattle panel at Fillmore Feed.  The above picture is where I unloaded it on the driveway.  I carried it out to the garden and went in for lunch.  Carol made some veggie soup.

I worked in house six planting more tomato plants.  No Tail, that has spent a lot of time in House six was laying in the back.  

Planted quite a few tomato plants.  They are pretty small.

I then put grass clippings around the plants to cover any emerging weed seeds.  The small tomato plants are circled in green.

I cut down most of the kale, broccoli, and a few other plants.  They were covered with aphids.

Another photo.

The aphids a visible on this photo.


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Finished the Post and Cross Beams

The first workday after changing to daylight savings.  The greenhouses are an hour colder.

The sweet potato cutting has got some nice roots.  Next week it will be in a nursery pot in house two next week.

Carol and I went to the graveside services for Carol Masner's mother.  It was pretty cold with a little breeze.  We bought some flowers last week.

These are the flowers.  I was a pallbearer and Carol offered the closing prayers.  

I took one picture of the visiting after the graveside services.

There is a wire on both sides of posts and cross beams.  The are near the top of the post.  I cut a small narrow oak into three inch pieces.  A hole was drilled  in both ends.  I screwed this piece across the wire which held the post in a plumb position. I first screwed it light so move the post left or right.  When it was plumb, I tightened the screws.  I did that for all the posts.  

I also raised the cross beams so it touched the greenhouse bows.  This will help hold the snow load.  I did this to four of them.  The other one was close to a fan.  

Sometimes I had to dig some of the soil away from each side of the post.  Some time I had slide the post forward or backward before it was plumb.

I backfilled around all the post and tamped the soil tight.

I moved the tiller from house three to house six.  I will be tilling on the south side of house six.

I planted another row of Kale. I stretched a string from east to west sixteen inches from the first row.  I then dug a hole every twelve inches with a shovel.  I dropped plants in every hole started with the second hole on the west.  I put on exam gloves to keep my hands from getting dirty.  I started on the west end, cleaned out the hole with my hand, and took the plant from the hole at my right, and stuck it in the first hole.  I continued this until I got to the east end.   This is a good picture of the finished cross pieces.

The first tray of kale were in jumbo packs.  The second tray was in small six packs.  On the left of the above photo are the jumbos and on the right are the small six packs.

Here is the completed row.   I then laid down a dripline, plugged the west end and hooked the east end to the water feed line.    Another look at the finished cross pieces.  

One more picture of the home that is being built a cross the street.


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Two by Four and Broccoli

I woke up this morning to no rain.  After breakfast I worked more on the Balance Sheet.  The first page and left column on the second page is finished.  I hope to be finished tomorrow.

I watered house two.  I have been thinking about planting beets in house six.  I watched Never Sink You Tube video this morning.  It was about planting and plant spacing.   I decided to get my seeder out.

It was in house six.  I haven't used this for a long time.  Robert used it in house six two years ago to plant radishes and I don't know what else he planted.  I looked through all the seeding disks. One was for planting seeds that were a little smaller than corn seeds.  I could get the disk that was on it, off.   I was turning it on.  The more I tried the tighter it was on.  I looked at it closely and decided that I was turning it the wrong way.  I could turn it the other way either.  I got some W-D 40 and with a pair of channel lock plyers I got it off.

I cleaned the seed tray and put in a handful of beet seeds.  I turned the wheel and there were no seeds coming out the planting tube.  It was plugged with cob webs.

Finally I got a small wire and tied it to a small piece of cloth,  I threaded the wire the seeding tube and pulled it through.  I checked it again and two seeds fell through.  It looks like it will plant two seeds ever two or three inches.

I wanted to start the truck.  I got two extension cords.  One end is plugged into the house and the other end plugged into the truck heater.

We had to go to the florist shop to get some flowers for Carol Masner's mother, who died a couple of days ago.  We also picked up some groceries.  When we got home I started the truck and drove to Fillmore.

I bought 5 sixteen foot treated 2x4's.  The were cut in half.  I brought them home and carried five of the to house six.  The other five I put on the cart. It was much easier.

The broccoli plants are getting big and it way past time for planting them.  I got the drip tape going a couple of days ago.  I stretched a line two feet from the north wall.  I use an eight foot 2x2 marked every twelve inches.  With a shovel I dug a hole every twelve inche and planted about 70 broccoli plants and six kale plants.

The above photo shows the line of plants.  I didn't get time to clean up the packs and traysl

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