Help Has Arrived, but Left Four Hours Later

I was so dirty last night I showered before going to bed.  This morning I was up a day break.  There were three wasp nests in the shell on my pickup.  I took three grocery bags with me and with my hand in the bag, I grabbed the nest and closed it up.  I did all three and put those in another bag.  A rubber band held the bag close.  In to the garbage it went.

Robert and his BYU friends were here about eight.  I helped them in house one.  We were hanging tomato plants.  There were two rows of tomato plants that didn't have a wire above.  We put up the two wires and then began hanging the tomato plants to the wires.  We did this for over three hours.

I was interrupted to help Carol with sweet relish.  We ground up peppers, onions, and cucumbers.  She soaked them for two hours, and then I squeezed out the water.  She ended up with nine half pints or good relish.

After lunch it was work in our own garden.  We picked all the corn yesterday, at least I thought so.  I started to cut down the corn stocks, but to my surprise I found about twelve more ears of corn.  we had two of them for supper.  It has been hot work.

I stacked all of it on the compost pile.  It is getting be quite a big pile.   I hope that it will decompose during the winter.

Robert's plants are beginning to get grow to the top of the cow panel bow.  The fruits are hanging down.  There is one that is really big lower down on the other end.

There were sixteen romaine cucumber plants at the nursery.

I planted them where the first batch of corn was growing.  Some of them were nearly two feet long. The water run down the row.

I did a lot of weeding in the garden.  I first weeded the topaz melons.  Then around the large tomato plants south of the cucumbers..  When finished there I weeded on the south side of the cucumbers.

 I weeded along the head of the garden.  Most of the weeds were percaline.

 There is a raised bed that I neglected this year.  Last year there were beets and carrots growing there.  I removed all the dead plants and hope to grow carrots again this year.

 Lastly this evening I tied most of the summer squash plant to the stake.  A little fuzzy but you can see the twine around the stake close to the ground.  I have killed a squash bug and some eggs.

Comments and questions are welcomed.

Irrigation -- Water out of the Canyon

Squash or pumpkin that was planted a week ago are now breaking through the soil.  I planted five or six seeds to help push up the soil and knowing that some might not germinate.  All will be pulled except one.  It will be tied to the stake and after the first fruit I will cut the top off.

Below is a single plant.  I pulled four or five of them up and left one plant.

The Topaz melons are doing well.  Plenty of male blossoms. Female blossoms are absent.

This gourd plants is about three feet tall.  There are two small gourds.  I keep it tied to the stake.

This is how I joined two pipes together that are different size.  I wrapped the smaller pipe with strips of bath towels, and used duck tape and twine to secure it to the pipe.

The pipe reached across the lawn.  The joint is on the lower left side.

I was taking a picture of this yellow jacket nest.  I was stung by one of them because I was two close.  I backed up and tried it again.

A cluster of tomatoes growing in house six.

The crook neck squash and zucchini are doing well.  I haven't seen and squash bugs or eggs on any of them.

Comments and questions are welcomed.

Relish to Sweet Corn in the Freezer

As soon as breakfast was over we began our relish production.  Cucumbers from the garden and bell peppers from the market.

Before lunch I worked with the native plants.  I removed dead/empty tubes, and combined the together where removed five trays.  Save some time on watering.  Bristle cone pine trees below with empty cells and weeds.

 Gambel oak.  There were about 75 to start with and now there is about 60.

 Pinyon pine below. Some are two hears old, some are one year old and the rest are seedling that germinated this winter and spring.

This tray has been looking like this all winter.

 
Here is how it looks today.

 I went out to water around 2:30.  I decided to pull weeds in house one.  I pulled some weeds in house one.  It was hot in there and cloudy and the wind began to blow some.  It cooled of and I got most of the weeds in the egg plant on the west side.  It looks pretty good now.

The wind blew the west half of the bean trellis over. Carol helped me put it back together.  It nearly came apart later and a small conduit pipe was the only thing hold it together.   I got some twine and a stake and pulled it all back together.
 
The orange twine is tied to the post in the upper right hand corner and tied to the stake and the bottom left hand corner.

This  how it looks now.

This evening before super I picked all of the corn, peaches and cream, on the two early rows.  I filled two big buckets and an egg basket.  With a couple of chairs, some containers and two knives, we shucked the corn and put the shucks on an old sheet..

When finished, I pulled the four corners together.  On the sheet were earwigs, sap beetles, and corn worms with corn cornels. There also were a few ears of corn that were so infested sap beetles they were also with the shucks.

The chickens go right after the bugs and cornels of corn.

We cut the corn of the cobs which is a sticky job as the corn has a lot of sugar in it.  Carol boiled it for three minutes.  We cut on four cookie sheets, then put the sheets in the freezer.  An hour later we put the corn in zip bags and then in the freezer.

Found squash bugs.  Four on Roberts squash and a bunch on the pumpkin gourds.

Questions and Comments are welcomed.

Good Food at Tradition Cafe in Scipio

Today was our day at the Manti, Utah temple.  We drive through Scipio on Tuesday and Saturday where we have watched the remodeling of the building where the Tradition Café is located.  They have been open for a couple of weeks.  Today, we stopped in for lunch.  It was clean and well decorated. I had a chicken sandwich with fries and one side of coleslaw.  Carol had a salad.  Jim and Carol Masner had hamburger.  It was really good.

 Robert's whatever it is called.  I sliced some and boiled it for super tonight.  It did not have much taste to it.

 We are now finding squash bugs on some of our squash plants.

 This orange kitten is now letting us pick it up.  It has some eye problems.