Peas and More Peas

First thing we did after breakfast was to go over to the Masner's and bring take the garbage container out to the road.  I then started picking the peas.

We have two litters of kittens this spring.  We have seen as many as six kittens at one time.  The above photo shows and orange kitten and a black kitten in the same dish.

I started picking peas around nine.  The peas are on a two foot wire trellis so they are not on the ground.   I had to bend over some and after a while my back began to ack. I got a lawn chair and was able to sit most of the time.  I would pick and put them in the tote.  I then moved the chair and the tote.

I picked a tote full of peas.  Carol washed them and then we set down together on the sofa with the tote between us. It took about two hours to shell all the peas.  Carol blanched them and we put them on two large cookie sheets and then put them in the freezer.   Late this afternoon,  We put the frozen peas in two zip lock freezer bags.

I really like my new weed eater.  I looked for weeds to cut down.  There was a lot of foxtail, cheat grass, and wild lettuce north of house greenhouse three.  I worked out there and cut them down.  I weed eated until the battery went dead.  I took about three hours re-charge it.

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Peas & Carrots

We were at the Manti Utah temple this morning as patrons.   It was nearly one when we got home.  I watched a little TV then went out to the garden;  I dug up all of the carrots yesterday.  I planted more carrots in the same bed as the carrots last year.

I looked all over for the rake.  I found it in house five.  I smoothed the raised bed.

I planted the seeds directly out of the package.  That went pretty good.  Then with the broom rake, I raked again that would cover some of the seeds with soil.

I got the square nosed shovel to pat the soil against the seeds.  I quickly built a tool.  It was easy to pat the soil against the seeds.  It has been my experience that seeds germination is improved if the is firm around the seeds.

Here it is finished.

The peas that I planted last October did not do well.  A few germinated.  The rest rotted or were covered with to much soil.   I took a stirrup hoe and tilled the row several times.

I pulled the soil from the bottom of the row with a hoe and the with a rake.  I used a pointed row hoe and made the row a little deeper.

I planted the Green Arrow seeds quite thick.  I then would plant some and cover them before I moved up the row to plant some more.  I did all of this on my hands and knees.  Then I started to pat down the soil as I moved up the row,  

I then wen back and finished patting down the soil.

Here it all finished.  Waiting for some rain or snow to give it a good watering.


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Weeding, Killing, and Hanging

a lot to do today.  I was out working by eight this morning.

The peas are doing really well.  There are a lot of pods and a lot of blossoms.  We should be picking some by next week end.

There are a lot of starts from the poplar trees that are growing east and south of house six.  I cut off the tops which left little stumps just above the ground.  I painted round up on all of the stumps.

 The burpless cucumber plants are big and ready to be planted in the ground.  I pulled up most of the pea plants.  The above photo shows the stack of vines.  I pulled off the pods.  There are some in the white color bowl.   I took the vines out to the compost pile outside of the west door.

I needed more tomahooks and used some of the wire left in house six.

 This is the cucumber plant.  It is in good shape and does not need to be cut.

I planted them in the hoop tunnel where the peas used to be.  Some are eight inches apart and some are every six inches.

Another shot.  

I sprayed three tanks of killed weeds in the ditch, out by the grapes, and in other arears around the garden.  I painted the grass in these geraniums with round up.  I didn't want to spray the geraniums.

The eggplants have a lot of weed.  On hands and knees I and pulled and hoed out the weeds.

I hung some of the smaller tomato plants.

I made a bag of vegetables for Ann and Raymond Stevens,

Lots of alums  and fox tail lilies in this garden North of the house and south of the road.


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Rain and the Weed Whip

After breakfast and a little bit of TV news, I pulled the two flat wheel barrows out of house two.  I put them inside for the night and outside during the day.

I backed the car near the north door of house two and unloaded the potting soil and the soluble fertilizer.   I cannot lift the soil like I used to do.  It is quite heavy.  I rolled it over end to end and then drug it the rest of the way into the greenhouse.

The bale of soil is standing on its end by the door.  I pulled in side and laid it flat on the floor next to the potting box.  I cut the bale in half and then was able to lift each half into the box.

I broke up the hard pieces of soil.  

Next I brought in the fertilizer.  I don't know the parts per million for the injector.  The above picture gives those directions.  I will begin to fertilize tomorrow.

I got a picture of the building that Neil Stevens is putting together.

The Italian parsley is way out of control.  I dug it up and carried it to the compost pile west of the hen house.

This is how it looks after.  The leeks were partially covered by the parsley.

You can see how pale some of the leek plants look.

We drove to Fillmore to get Chrysanthemums for Memorial Day.  We got fifteen.  We then stopped at Fillmore feed and bought the a hanging basket which will hang from our front porch.

I put the basket on the step to get another picture.

 I planted the bunching onions.  They are in 105 tray.   I could easily pull them out.  I put them in another tray that had larger cells.  I planted them next to the other onions.

I took the weed whip to Penny's because it didn't have any power.  He did some adjustments.   When I got home I did a lot of trimming.  It worked much better.  I cut down the tall grass and other weeds next to the Miller's.  I run it tell it run out of gas.  I came back and weeded some more until the whip was gone.  I put on new string then I couldn't start the weed whip.  I think that it was flooded.

Carol pulled a lot of weeds and grasses of the hill.  there are several large piles.

I also cut the weeds around house three. 

I found this weed in house.  It has a beautiful seed head.  I then dug it up and put it in a garbage can.

The pea plants in house six are really tall and there are new blossoms at the top.

I pruned all of the tomato plants in house six and hung some some that hadn't been hung yet.

I picked a nice batch of peas.  I also picked on cucumber and ate half of it this evening.

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Work & More Work

It was about 7:45 this morning when I checked the greenhouses, mainly houses two and six.  Everything looked fine except house six.

The controller was in the off position.  Last night when I shut the doors I could hear the water was running.  I didn't look ar the controller, but it was obvousily working correctly.

A photo of grape plants that I rooted from cutting of the plants from the Miles Batty's yard.   All of them are alive, and are showing a stem bud.  I watered them.

While out by the grape vines I  saw  large asparagus stems.  I came back later and cut a nice batch of shoots.  There are two pint bottles in the fridge.  The one on the right is the one I picked today.  I had them for supper.

I didn't get a picture, but I cut a nice bunch of peas that are growing in house six.  We had them for supper also.

I planted eight large tomato plants.  Didn't get a picture of that either.

There is a large hardy Pampas grass  growing in the flower bed west of our driveway.  It is the light area a little bit left of center.

I have a couple of hoops or bows made from cattle panels.  I have a hard time keeping the ends off the ground.  I found a treated 2x6 I cut off two fifty inch pieces.  There is one for each end.  the panal would not sit smoothly   I sawed a grove near the center of the board.  The depth of the groe was the same diameter of the rods of the bow.   I cut a small piece of wood and drilled holes through the wood and then screwed in to the wood.  

This photo shows  the board that will be on the other end.

The welded wire is above.

Last week I planted carrots in this raised bed.  It has be rained on and watered.  I put welded wire over it to keep off the chickens.  Today, I covered t with two layers of burlap hoping that it will keep the seeds moist.

One layer of burlap. 

Two layers of burlap.

I heavily pruned the grape plants that are by the hen house.

 You see the hen house in the background.

These grape vines have been here a long time and they are getting pretty large.

Here was growing a rose bush with multiple stems.  I cut it down and painted the stumps with round up.

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