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The Swan man came by yesterday afternoon and left bag full of food that I had ordered last week.  I took the bag and filled it with one of the large nursery pots and filled it with the aluminum cat food containers.  I took them out to the shed.

I dug up six strawberry plants and planted them west of the bale of straw.   I dug the holes and put compost in the bottom of the hole.  I the placed the plants into the hole.  I did it six times.  I watered them.

Here are a few more.

I was working in the garden when a pick-up stopped on the street in front of our house.   He wanted to put new sealant  on our driveway.  I talked to Carol.  He said that it would cost me $350.  We haven't sealed the driveway for a long time.   I told him okay.  I would pay for it.

His son was helping him.  He started next to the concrete and worked his way back to the street.

There was two to three inch strip between the asphalt and drive concrete.  He had a bag of asphalt the he filled the crack.  It didn't take much.

The finished job looks pretty good.

The rest off the afternoon I dug, hoed, and pulled the

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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More Clean-up Pad One

I didn't write anything Saturday or Sunday, therefore I do the writing this evening.

 I plant Detroit Red Beet seeds at the end of each week.  This one is done Saturday morning.  105 cells in the tray.

I did a lot of weeding in house one.  This is the isle on the west side between the eggplants and tomato plants.  I drug the drip tape out the north end to make room for my hoe.  Looks much better now.

I transplanted the first tray of red beets that were planted four or five weeks ago.  There were thirteen out of the 105 tray.  They are planted in the north raised bed in house two.

 Last week I planted a few English cucumber seeds.  They are coming up now.

 A volunteer seed came up here.  I looks like it might be a white pumpkin.  It is the size of a softball.

I was picking cucumbers this morning and found this cluster of green tomatoes on the ground.  They are soo heavy that gravity caused them to break off.

 I last picked Friday morning.  By this morning, Monday, there were a lot of cucumbers.  I pick 2 1/2 totes of cucumbers.  I sorted them.  Burpless, medium, and small pickling.  One person has asked for pickling cukes.

Above a picture of the second tote.  I took one tote of cucumbers and six bunches to the post office.  There were five ugly cucumbers left this evening.

 I moved a lot of pots out two pad one.   Watering of plants at pad one is controlled by a timer.  It comes on every morning at three and turns off at one hour and fifty-five minutes later.  The depth of the water is about 2 1/2 inches.  Above are tri-star strawberry plants.

 Late this afternoon I cleaned a larger area to make room for more plants.  As said earlier; this pad saves a lot of watering time.

I brought up around sixty pots.


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Not Enough Time

We were going to Provo yesterday.  A 4:30 dental appointment but a stop to that.  Went this morning.  I was to meet Alisha at nine to do some transplanting.  I called her several times and her line was always busy.

 She planted a lot of strawberry seeds.  They have been growing well and are ready to transplant into four inch pots.  She didn't come so I quickly transplanted twenty of them.  She still didn't come.  I put them out side in the shade.  I took the picture when we got home.   I have never grew strawberries from seed.  I don't know if the will produce fruit this year.

A new smart phone was high on my list.  We stopped at Walmart where I bought a phone six months ago which hasn't done well at all.  The camera is hard to work and is not consistent.  Could not receive or make phone calls in our house.  I picked out a phone and waited while he fixed it so I could use the phone as soon as I walked out the door.  I took several pictures and it is easy to work.

Getting Peter's triple twenty. 20 20 20, fertilize was high on our list of things to do.  On the way home we stopped at Steve Regan's and got a twenty five pound bag.  After we got home I mixed it in our thirty gallon fertilizer barrel.  The picture above shows it.  Our plants are suffering for the lack of fertilizer.

I took this selfie on the way home.

I took this picture after we got home.  It is the east side of house two.

The Masner's visited with us after we got home.  I asked him to help me get the scriptures on my I Pad.  He couldn't figure it either.

Later I picked them some strawberries and took it them.  The strawberries have really been good.  They are almost gone.  A couple more pickings at the best.

 

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Lawnmower is Fixed, I Hope

During the night a new thought came to me.  I should take off the rear tire and put more gook in the tire.

After breakfast I got the tools that I would need ready.  The tools were wrong.  I got a good eight foot 2x4 and a couple of bricks and raised the back of the lawnmower which aloud me to get access to the tire.   I pushed the end of 2x4 to the ground.  Carol held it while I put blocks under the engine.  I then took off the tire and pumped it up and put it back.

I hadn't picked any strawberries for a couple days.  I picked the cullender of strawberries and three clam shell containers.  They are so good.

I put another string on the north side of the row.  The peas are starting to bloom.  I won't belong until we start picking peas.

Every time I water I notice a few leek starts.  I took time to plant them today.  There are nine or ten starts.

I worked again in house one pruning and hanging.  There were several tomato plants that had never been pruned. Some of the tomatoes are getting ripe.  I made a lot of Tomahooks and wrapped them with twine.  I did this the late morning.  There was a little shade which made it more comfortable.

After lunch, Richard Darnell, came and began to put the gas tank back on.  He also replace the He worked there for an hour.  The moment of decision was up.  Would it work?  It started right up.  I then mowed the piece of grass that didn't get mowed a couple of weeks ago.  I thanked him and he went home.

 Carol asked me to clean the curbing around the kidney bed.  I decided to work on it for an hour.  I got finished in less than an hour.  I loaded the piece into the wheelbarrow.  And with a broom I cleaned all the soil on the curb.

There are a couple places by the hen house that needs more grass.  The above is a picture of a spot west of the hen house.  I put a lot of the grass that I dug up from the kidney here.

The rest of the grass I planted south of the chicken run.  It will be an improvement if I keep those watered.

Some where during the afternoon I had a couple of customers.  One spent $30 and the other spent $65.  They bought native plants.

At the end of the day, Lisa and Emi stopped on their way to St George.

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Dermatologist

I wanted to get some of the garden ready for tomato plants today.  I got the weed barrier out and then selected the place in the garden to place it.  There will be some photos later.

I sprayed one tank of Round-up on the weeds that I missed with the lawnmower tank.

I drove to Fillmore where I had an appointment with a dermatologist to take a look at the pre-cancer scabby things on my face.  Most of it is one the left side.

I bought a few things at Roper's then I came home.  One was the Miracle Grow potting soil.   In the meantime Carol was finishing up on the heart monitoring thing.  She started yesterday while we were in Provo at 11:30 a.m. and finished today at 11:30 a.m.  When I got home we put all the materials (batteries, cords, and shipping envelop) together in the black container.  We drove to the south end of Fillmore where the FedEx drop box was located.  We received a little help from the person at the station.  We then came home and had lunch.

I received some strawberry plants that I ordered about ten days ago.  I ordered one set which contained twenty-five plants.  I put them in a bucket of water to get them ready for transplanting.  I filled six baskets with some used potting soil.  I then wetted them down.

I finished fill the baskets with the Miracle Grow potting soil.  I put four plants in each basket.  The last basket had only three plants.  There should be two left over, but I was short two. I watered them well and they are on an outside bench.  I hope to sale them for $25 each.  The plants cost $25 and I all ready had the pots.

The above photo is of a small cucumber.  There needs to be a male flower, but there aren't and yet.

I got the weed barrier down.  I used the tiller to loosen the soil.  Once going down and another coming back.  I shoveled out an irrigation row and used spikes to hold the weed barrier down.  The tomatoes will be planted in the center of the row.  Last year there were iris and strawberries in this spot.

I put a washer on each spike and pounded them into the ground.

The north edge of the weed barrier is next to the peonies.  East and west of the peonies will be planted to melons and watermelons.


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