Prepared Garden for Peas

Strange morning.  I looked at the clock this morning.  It said 4 o'clock.  I thought that it was five.  I sometimes get up at 5:15, therefore, I got up, showered, dressed, and shaved.  I was up nearly two hours before I usually get up.   After breakfast, I put on my winter coat and filled the backpack sprayer with weed killer.  

I sprayed one tankful of weed killer this morning, and another tankful this afternoon.

I am expecting a bag of Green Arrow pea seeds in a couple of days.  I got the tiller that is in house three and pushed it to the garden.  The small gas tank was empty.  I filled it and the pulled the crank rope.  Nothing, I pulled it again and again and still nothing.  I forgot to turn on the ignition switch.  I turned on the switch and pulled it again.  It started right up.  I left the tiller engine running and walked down the row and removed sticks and other things.  By the time I got back the engine stopped.  I tried to start it again and was unsuccessful.

I used my stirrup hoe to loosen the soil and cut out any weeds.

I then used a pointed hoe to make a row for planting the pea seeds.

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Tiller Fixed

As soon as I was dressed I went outside and turned off the water on the back lawn.  I had run all night.  I then turned on the water on the geraniums in the kidney and the geraniums under Carol's window.  Later I turned on the water on the geraniums in front of the front room window.  I watered the east lawn.  I moved the hose north every thirty minutes.

While all of the was going on I pushed the tiller to the west lawn next to the driveway.  It hasn't been working right.  I believe that the belt was to short.  I took off the tire and the belt cover.  It looked like I would have to remove the large pully.  I could get it off so I couldn't take off the belt.  

I thought and thought of how I could do that.  I called my neighbor, Richard Darnell.  When he got here, he soon found the problem.  There is a tension spring that was in the wrong place.  He put it in the right place and put it back to gather.  I started it up.  Richard drove it to the south garden for a test tilling.  It worked quite well.  He drove it awhile and I drove it a while.

I tilled this row up and back several times.  I made a wide row and started some water down the row.  I am going to plant sweet corn tomorrow afternoon.  The soil was powder dry.  

Picture of bad weed.  I climbs up everything and by so doing scatters seeds.

Another photo showing it searching for something to climb.

Three kittens in a sieve.  

The lens on my phone was dirty and I couldn't get a sharp picture.  I took this selfie.

I washed the dirt off the lens and got a good photo.  This afternoon I cut down all the weeds with my cordless weed Wacker.

I got a photo of the Joshua tree

I then got a picture of the two tubs on the front porch.  Tiger, our cat got in the picture.

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Tiller, Hoop, & Mower

I started work in the garden this morning.  I was going to remove the weed barrier in the north east corner of the garden.  There is a large pine tree in the corner.  Well, I wanted to prune the lower branches.  Last fall while cutting a tree stump growing close to the ground I hit something like a rock or a nail which dulled the chain.

I took it into the garage where I removed the dull chain.  I had an extra chain that was sharpened a couple of years ago.  I put on the saw the sharpened chain.  The chain saw gas container was empty.  I made a new mix.  I primed the engine and after a few pulls on the crank rope it started up.  A minute later it was running like new.

I cut off all the branches that I could reach.  I moved around the tree cutting branches as I went.
The branches of this tree that reached out over the corner of the garden.  I parked the truck nearby and loaded all the trees on the truck.  I then took to the dump.

I pulled up all of the spikes that were holding the weed barrier the north east corner of the of the garden.

 I remove the weed barrier.

 I pulled up the corner and this hammer was laying there,  It has been there for two or three years.  I can't even remember it.

I folded up the weed barrier..

Then I rolled it up and tied it.

There is a four foot strip of weed barrier that stretched from the west end of the garden to the east.  I folded part of it under and re-stretched it and nailed it down with the spikes.

I wanted to mow the lawn.  There is not much grass, but a lot of leaves.  This is my first baskets full of leaves.  I dumped them on the compost row.

I blew off all the leaves on snail hill.

I raked the leaves an put them on the tarp.  I had two tarp loads.

Last year I made a pair of stacking saw horses.  I didn't like them.  They were heavy and awkward.

I took it into the garage and took it apart.  I removed all of the screws and ended up with seven 2x4's about three feet long.  I am going to use these parts to make an other pair of saw hoses which will be easier to handle and to store.


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The tractor has been pretty much fixed with the four new tires.  I walked around the yard some.  I brought the tiller out to the garden.  

We drove to Fillmore for Carol's appointment with her ophthalmologist.  While she was there, I went to State Bank to check on a check that I had written or thought that I had written.  It had come yet.  She said that she would pay and then call me.  I would then bring the money to cove the check.  

I pushed the tiller out to the garden.  It ran out of gas last fall.  I put  gas in the tank.  I pulled the crank rope several times and it wouldn't start.  I put the nose of the tiller to the ground.  There was wires and strings wrapped around the tines.

I think I worked on it for over an hour.  I loosened the right side and finally got it cleaned up.  I did the same on the left side. I put on the choke and it started right up.  It didn't run to well,  I did a little light tilling and it quit.

I took off the boards that I put on yesterday and it seemed to have bent the hog panel into place.  It wasn't good enough.  I then got two 2x6's which were about 22 inches long.  I put one on the outside of the bend and another on the inside.  I clamped them together.  I used three clamps.  It seemed to work.  I wired all of the panels together.  

The first photo is taken from the inside and the above photo from the outside.  I will take off the clamps in the morning.  I may have to clamp it again in the morning in a different place.

Shane and the guys are cleaning house three.  I thought that I might invite people to pick them up for free.


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Was the Gasoline Spiked

I made an appointment with Jeff Christenson yesterday to meet me at Alisha's house at nine this morning.  He was there right on time.  We walked around the yard and talked about the things that needed to be done.  I was there about a half hour.  I was going to trim around the raised beds and also apply round-up in some of the beds and under the fence on the west and north sides.  He would mow every week and then every ten days and then every other week.  Jeff spoke to her mother and arranged for payment and explained how often.

I took this picture of the tomato plant in house two that is loaded with what I call Purple Cherry.  I had several plants last year and saved them for this year with rooted cuttings.

After I got back from Alisha's house, we drove to the cemetery to get the Chrysanthemums that decorated Sierras grave.  We planted them in the berm west of our driveway.  That turned out to be a large job.

The drip line had a hole which I think that I made cutting weeds with a shovel.  I cut a piece out but could not find a coupler to hook them back together.  I finally put in a Tee and added another drip line.  There is an emitter every twelve inches.  I put in a new pressure regulator.  When I turned the water on, the water began to spray out through a crack in the drip line.   I took it off and put another, but longer piece.  When I turned the water back on it worked perfectly.

I took a photo of the tree spade.  I want to put it up for sale on Deseret News Classified.

This afternoon I met Clair Harmon and again at Alisha's house.  He had his big tractor there and he pulled up three small Siberian Elm trees.  We loaded his truck with the branches.  I was there for a little over an hour.

Richard Darnel came over to help me start my tiller.  It was around one this  afternoon. He worked on it for over three hours.  He had to drive Fillmore for supplies to help clean the carburetor.

When if got back, he was still working.  He remove the gas tank, the carburetor and a bunch of other parts.  Then put it back together.  He removed the carburetor several times. There was something in the gas tank that had prevented the gas from getting to the carburetor  After giving it some thought, it looked like someone put sugar or something in the tank.

This quart bottle contains the gas that was drained out of the gas tank.  It also contains some of the gas used to rinse the tank.  The bottom fourth is the gook from the gas tank.  It is a darker tan.

I did a little tomato pruning.

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