All Day in House One

We picked the peas before breakfast while it was cooler.

We are about finished at the point.  Carol picked most of them.  Her tote is much fuller than mine.

There sixteen pounds of peas in this tote.

Carol shelled them while was working in house one.  She blanched them, froze them and put them in a zip bag.

 I went up and down every isle pruning and clipping the new top growth to the twine.

The above picture shows all of the pruning in the isle.  There is still some more to do.

Some of the tomato plants died.  Instead of replanting new ones to that their place, I am training branches from plants next to them to take their place.  It is hard to see in the above photo.  In a couple of weeks it will be more noticeable.  

 Above is the fruit of a Howard German tomato.

I don't know the name of this tomato.  It has a nice flavor.  The fruit are about  1.5 inches long.

We grew this one last year. It is a good one.

I think that I took over 200 cutting and put in water for rooting.  When they root they will go into house six.

I plant red beets in the tray.  They are beginning to germinate.  There are 105 cells in this tray.

At the end of the day I hoed weeds.  The above picture is in house two.

 The above picture is from house six.  The weeds in there are really bad.

Comments and questions are welcome.  

Several Projects Today

1. Install hose bib timer to the pressure tank at the well.  Last year and previous years I had to turn the water on and remember to turn it off.  The water goes to pad one which holds large native shrubs and trees.
2. I have one sweet potato start the I put in a quart pot.
3. Prepare and invoice for the Holden ward for the Mother's Day geraniums.
4. Pot the rooted tomato plants.
5. Remove the lid from the wasp trap.
6. Call Steve at Duff Shelley's lawn mower repair shop.

  There are a lot of stinky weeds in the scallions.  They really stink. I started cutting the roots with a pair of scissors; that was too slow.  I pulled them up.  Looks much better now.

Yesterday I pruned the tomato plants in house one.  I stuffed them into this quart bottle. They should begin to root by the end of the month,

Yesterday, I made this salad with most everything coming from out gardens.  I ate half of it yesterday and the rest of it for lunch today.

Carol wanted her lemon trees brought out.  It has been hard to keep them standing.  I tried several different ways.  One year I tied them to conduit stakes.  That worked most of the time, but the wind blew them over.  I have put them in a pot in a pot.  I drove spikes through the bottom of the pot.  The wind still blew them over.  To day I dug holes and buried the pots.  They should not blow over now.  I will dig them up and bring the back to the greenhouse where they will spend the winter.

I took these vine plants outside yesterday afternoon to harden off or get accustom to the outdoor climate.  This afternoon they were pretty wilted.  I rook them back to house two and tonight they looking good.

 I put the rooted cuttings in the four inch square pots and watered them well.  They should be ready to plant in house six in a couple of weeks.

 I called Shelley's about my lawnmower.  I think that I will have a new engine put in.  I gave Steve the serial and model number.  He called later this evening.  It will cost nearly $3,000 for the engine, taxes, and shipping.  The above picture shows the location of the numbers.

I planted six more tomato Tasmanian Chocolate tomato.  Three are shown above.

Another look at the lemon tree.

This lawnmower has been in house five for a lot of years.  Richard is beginning to fix it.  Here it is in several pieces.


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Transplanting in House Two

After breakfast and after the news and after the sunrise, I went to greenhouse two.  There were plants to be transplanted and pole beans that were ready to climb.  In the pictures below I made a trellis for the pole beans.  I drove to 1/2 inch conduit intp the ground on both sides of the bean row. I wired it to the boards to stabilize it.

The arrow peas are ready to climb.  I drove in a shorter conduit on each end of the peas.  I then strung to pieces of twine to hold the pea vines upright.  There is now wind in the greenhouse so they should be alright.

I found a piece of oak.  I drilled holes in both ends of the oak and inserted a large nail through the hole and into the conduit.  I tied twine to the heads of three other large nails.  They hung down over the pole beans.  The other end of the twine was tied to the wood at the top.

I had twelve bush beans which are planted in the center of the picture below. there are two rows.

 I put the sweet corn in two rows in a different raised bed.   At the top of the picture there are four Yellow Crock neck summer squash.

 I am going to put two raised beds on the west side of house two and they will be in the north south direction.  I took off one of the 2x4's of the bench that is there now.  That took awhile to remove all the staples and screws that was holding it together.  I took the 2x4 that is laying on the floor to the garage.  It has a nice weathered side that I hope to use in some type of furniture.

The amaryllis below was full of weeds.  I pulled all of them out and the dumped out the amaryllises

There were four small bulbs and two larger bulbs.  I put the largest one in the original pot.  The next on in a larger pot and the four in smaller pots.

 They are pictured below.  Several had long leaves that I pruned some.

I dug up a tomato plant in the garden that had a different type of tomato on it.  It is growing as shown in the picture below.

 I cut off two of the stems and put them in a bottle of water.  I cut off the lower leaves.  They are in the kitchen window and should grow roots in two to three weeks.

The following photos are of the ice display, that grows daily.

 This one is in a different location.  Two hose are joined together here and has a leak. It sprays some and is making another ice display.

 I walked to the south east corner of our yard.  The large poplar trees have weakened and I am afraid that the wind might blow them over.  I was investigating to determine the best way and time to cut them down so they won't fall to the east and breakdown the power line and break the neighbors horse fence and corals.

This saw buck was out by the poplars.  I brought it to the patio and took it apart.  I could use the wood in some future project.

 Here,the pieces are stacked.  I put them in the garage.  The bottom one is a large piece of pine.

Comments and questions are welcome