Temple Training

 We were up early this morning.  My alarm did not go off, but I got up anyway.  It was aa little before six.  I woke Carol up and then showered.  We didn't have time for any breakfast.  It was getting pretty light and we had the sun in our faces much of the time.  It looked like we would be quite a bit early.  We run into a construction zone after we left Gunnison.  We waited for a long time and finally the light turned green.  We followed the piolet car far miles.  We then were stopped again.  We followed the piolet car to Sterling.  We pulled into the temple driveway just as the doors were being opened.  I parked the car and walked to the temple door.  Once inside I showed my recommend.

I went to my dressing room and removed my street clothes and put on my white suit.  I couldn't find my shoes or my name tag.  There was a small plastic box on the shelf.  I took it down.  There on top was my toothbrush and nail clippers.  I pulled out my shoes and found my name tag at the bottom.  That was a pleasant surprise.  I had looked all over the house for my shoes and name card.  It was some good news.  We were in the temple for a couple of hours.

We then drove to Walmart.  Carol wanted some plastic dinosaurs for one of our grandkids. There was a lot if them there.  

Just to the left of her hand are a lot of them.

There were pepper plants and one tomato plant in the trays in house five.  I transplanted them into the four inch pots. I took them into the garage greenhouse and put them on the shelf.  I made a row with a hoe in what I tilled yesterday  

I decided to plant the onions.  I ran water down the row.

I had a bundle of Red Candy onions.  I stuck them into the wet soil and pinched them mud around each plant.  I ran water down the row again.

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Fillmore, Onions, & Strawberries

Carol needed to go to Fillmore to get some cash.  We went to The State Bank of Southern Utah.  I wanted to stop at the Fillmore Nursery for some onions.  While there I got the onions, bought some red Pontiac potatoes,  and eight ever bearing strawberries.

 Nice looking ever bearing strawberry plants.

Candy onions and Walla Walla onions.

I had water running on the raised bed.  The water did not soak in.  I stirred it in, in preparation for planting strawberries and red beats.  

I pulled up all of the strawberry plants that I received and planted April ten.  They looked when they came and they are still looking dead.

Here is the whole bunch minus a few that I didn't find.  I prepared an email to the nursery where I bought the plants.  I was going to request a refund for plants and postage.  I talked to them earlier this week and they wanted pictures.  I got the pictures, but couldn't attach them to the email.  I guess I will try again.

Jessen told me that there was another broken pipe leaking.  The water was spraying through a hair line crack.  I fixed this one yesterday.  I didn't cut it low enough.  There was still a little crack.  

I cut it again a little lower.  I found another plug and put on an extension.  Later I turned the water back on.  No leaks.

I planted the strawberry plants and this tray of red beats.  I hooked a water breaker to the hose and watered these, radishes, carrots, and more red beats.

The west view of the strawberry and red beat plants.  Some of our cats are using the bed for a toilet.

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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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I Mowed the Lawn and the Mower didn't

This morning after breakfast we gathered up the onions.

The white bucket has the Copra onions.  They will keep into the summer.  There are a few more that are waiting to cure.  I will get those sometime next week.

The lawn is a big need of being mowed.   There are places where the grass is tall and other places where there are a lot of weeds.

I hooked up the battery charger as shown in the top left hand corner   I drained the oil pictured in the bottom right corner.  While the battery was charging I removed the hoses.  And in house for awhile I worked at the computer developing a paper explaining the CSA or community supported agriculture.  After lunch I added some oil to the lawnmower engine.  I couldn't find any motor oil.  I did find a gallon container which I thought had used oil, but it was gear oil of the weight of 80.  I put  1 1/2 quarts of oil in.  The mower started up and I mowed the whole lawn with ease.  The motor slowed down slightly but did not quite.  I dumped the catcher two times.

The burpless cucumber plants were badly infected with mites.  I cut them off at ground level and removed all the tomato clips.

The picture above shows the length of a cucumber vine.  It is nearly fourteen feet long.

Robert and Frank came this afternoon.  They were here for nearly three hours.  We discussed plans for next year.  Frank took tomatoes, beets, cucumbers, salad onions, and one geranium home with him.  He really liked the big burpless cucumbers.

I turned the water on the center sprinklers in the back yard at five and turned it off at nine and turned on the sprinklers on the south side.  It will run all night.


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Jam to Cattle Panel

As soon as it was light we picked the pole beans. They were hanging from the bowed hog panels.  There were a lot of them which filled a five gallon bucket half way.  Carol washed and put them in a plastic grocery bag.  I picked a bunch of cucumbers.  Carol took them to Karen Bennett her beautician and friend.

We have some frozen strawberries that are two years old.  Carol started thawing them last night.  This morning we made strawberry jam.

We made eight half pints and one pint.  Later I had some one toast. It was really good

White Star.

Red Candy  

Copra

Candy

We drove to Fillmore to get some groceries and I made a stop at Ropers to get a couple of air filters for the furnace.  The one the right was installed last April.  You can see how dirty it is.

 I sliced and apple in thin strips a couple of days ago and they quickly dried.  They were a little bit tastless but after a few chews the sweetness came forth.

One of the hens escaped the chicken run.  She was flying out in the corner next to the garage.  I put up a large welded netting which will prevent her from leaving he associates.  

It is time or past time to plant garlic.  I watched several You Tube videos on planting garlic.  I put some compost in the wheel barrow.

I dug up the onions earlier in the day and then tilled a row were they planted early this spring.  

I had one garlic that we got from one of our neighbors.  I separated the ten cloves and arranged them starting with the largest first.  I also mixed some bone meal into the soil.  I planted the six to eight inches apart.  I started the water.

I put more apples on the drier and one banana.

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Nature's Swamp Cooler

I has been hot from 9 a.m. until the sun went down.  House one is shaded some until 11 a.m.

In house one there are six isles.  The above photo show the space between the isle.  There are two rows of tomatoes.  Using a stirrup hoe I was able to get most of the weeds.  The using the same hoe, I was able to hoe out most of the weeds on both sides of the isle and then down the middle.  There are two rows where I can't walk in the space between the plants.  I crawled on my hand and knees using a short handled stirrup hoe.  I have hoed out most of the weeds.

It is pretty hot in house two. I pulled most of the weeds in the raised beds.  There were some where I had to cut the roots with a pair of scissors.  Most of those were annual grasses.  

 I picked a nice batch of strawberries.  After I finished I put to hose on them and watered them well.   

I soaked the above raised bed preparing it for sweet potatoes.  There are four rooted quart pots and a rooted sweet potato in a quart bottle.  I dug five deep holes and put each plant in the hole and filled it water and soil.  They are looking pretty good.

The raspberry plants are doing well and should have some large berries if they are properly watered.  Years ago I made this portable sprinkler.  It has been in the far backyard.  I positioned it on the north east corner of the raspberry patch.  It was to tall to be able to adjust the coverage.  I had to remove a couple of large nipples which to two pipe wrenches and one five foot heavy pipe.  I finally got it adjusted.  I turned on the water for an all night spray.  

I took pictures of a couple of native plants.  Above is that of Dorr's Sage, Salvia dorrii.  It is quit pretty but the flowers don't last long.  I will havest the seeds when they are ripe.

This is a photo of Curl leaf Mountain Mohogany, Cercocarpus ledifolius, growing in our dry garden.  It is about five feet tall.  It needs some pruning. 

 In the heat of the day I dug weeds south of the asparagus.

The above picture shows a row of tomatoes, peas, onions, and another row of tomatoes.  I strung another trellis twine for the peas,  I watered the res of the plants.  Carol and I weeded the onions.


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