Raised Bed & Greenhouse Bed

All morning we sorted more photos.  There are only a few books left.

After lunch I walked out to see what was going on at the greenhouses.  It was pretty strange.  When I left yesterday morning,   Richard Darnel had a chain tied to the tree about sixteen feet above the ground.  A cable was hooked to the chain which went around the base of a tree.  At a different angle the cable was hooked to the winch of his four wheeler.  He pulled it tight.  I then left.

This morning there was no chains or cable.  He must have taken the down yesterday.  I was surprised when I saw that the tree was gone. The above photo show the stump that was cut nearly at ground level.

 The above photo shows most of the tree.

I found this bench top.  I put it one some blocks for a germination bench.

I found some big nail or spikes.  One nursery can in house 3 and the other one east of house six.

I took them out to the garden where they will be used to hold down the weed barrier.

I got three loads of nursery pots which came from the south growing area.  I dumped all of them in the new raised bed.

Saffron is growing well.  The deer have eaten to tops of some of it.

Spring has come to the Holden Dental office.  Jim Stephenson filled two tubs with pansies.  One on each side of the doorway.

I filled this tray with potting soil and planted it with Red beets.  I watered the tray with the sprinkle can.

I found three bags of lawn fertilizer in house five.  I put it on the cart and took it to the garage.

This huge Fremont Poplar, Populus fremontii, is Capitol Reef National Park in Wayne County, Utah,  Carol is standing on the left side of it.

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Beets are Gone

After breakfast and the news I worked at the desktop computer and finally was able to make a business card.  It contains the information needed to recruit CSA members or customers.

I went out to house two to prepare the vegetables for the CSA box.  When I do this I  have to bend over to wash and rinse the beets or onions.  I made a higher bench with blocks, bricks, and two 3x4's.  It worked much better but was still not high enough.  I spent an hour to save a half hour.  I do that all the time.  This save on my back.  I half fill each bucket with water.  I wash off most of the soil in the first bucket and rinse in the other two buckets.

About ten I made another CSA box.  I pulled the rest of the red beets.  I was able to make five bunches.  I picked five cucumber.

All that is left of the beets are a few dried up leaves.

After lunch I raked the leaves on the back lawn.  Raking is not entirely right.  I used a blow to make piles and then used a rake or scoop shovel to get the leaves onto the tarp.  I laid the tarp on the lawn and then used a steel pipe to hold down the edge facing the leaves.

 In the case I used the scoop shovel to load the tarp with leaves.

 I grabbed four corners of the tarp, pulled them together and put them over my shoulder.

I am making no till garden with straw, leaves, cucumber, and corn stalks.  Most of it should be decomposed by nest spring.


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Muggy Morning

I picked this tote of cucumbers this morning.

This cucumber was trapped when I put on the tomato clip.  It has grown since the last photo.

There are a lot of weeds growing in house six.  I had a little time this morning to cut some down.

They are big ragweeds.  Or the could be called tumble weeds.

I discovered the evidence of a deer in our yard.  I saw one track the damp soil.  I think that it was a fawn.  

I was hoeing some of the weeds around the yard.  there is a lot of chic weeds round this tree.  I hoed them out in less that a minute.

We have a flower bed west of the driveway.  These are purple rudbeckias.

I planted an other tray of red beets.  This is the fourth week of planting beets.

The last thing done this morning was picking some raspberries.



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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.

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Weeds are Everywhere.

One of the first things this morning was to turn off the water.  The sprinklers had been running all night and the lawn was well watered.

Yellow jackets have a nest on the ceiling of the front porch.  I got a ladder and a plastic shopping grocery bag.  The nest was in an awkward spot and I could not reach it from the ladder.  I got my ten foot PVC pipe.  I secured the bag at the bottom end of the pipe and reached up with the other end and knocked the nest loose.  The nest fell through the pipe and into the bag.  I smashed the bag on the driveway and put it into the garbage.  A couple of wasp didn't fall through the pipe.

The above picture is the garden in the south west corner of our yard.  With a shovel I cut down all the weeds except morning glory.  I had hoped to have planted our melons and watermelons out there.  Didn't get it done.

I went to house two.  I took a picture of the sweet corn which I planted last week.  It is beginning to germinate.  

I went to work digging and pulling the weeds in the raised beds.  There were a few beds that I pulled up all the plant material that was finished or that was not edible any more.  There was a wire trellis for some peas that had died back.  I took it outside.

 

I picked eleven large cucumbers.  That was a pretty good picking for one day.  

 The above cucumber is a greenhouse cucumber that Robert planted.  It is about five inches long.

Carol took our cucumbers to the post office.  They were about all gone before she left.

I wanted to plant some red beets for weeks now.  I got it today.  There are  cells in this tray.  I put a seed in each cell.

 The cells in the 105 tray dry out so fast in this hot weather.  How am I going to keep the soil moist.  I have some plastic wrap the I've had for years.  I made stand to hold the wrap

 The wrap was wide enough to cover the 1020 webbed tray.

 I used theme clips to hold the wrap on the tray.  Two on each end and two on the sides.

The above picture is tray with the plastic underneath with the clips showing.

Here the tray is upside down with a weight on the top.  That will prevent cats or some small animal to move the tray.

We went to Fillmore for some wire and more plants.  We planted them in front of the house.

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