Friday Trip to the Market

We drove to Fillmore for some groceries and to make a deposit.  We wore our new face masks at the market.  They are a way lot more comfortable than the other masks that Lisa brought us.  It was pretty cool this morning.  The forecast for early was close to freezing.  I didn't want to take any chances on any plant damage.  I started water running down the rows in the garden.  The running water is warmer than the air.

I covered the pomegranate to protect the tender buds and blossoms.

The two grape plants that I planted yesterday were really wilted this morning.

I don't think it was stress of the transplanting, but the cold night and morning

 I covered them with the small wire basket and burlap.

I then put another piece of burlap on top of both of them.

I laid the shrub down and covered it with two blankets.

This morning I removed the two blankets and stood the shrub back up.  I put the short guy wires back.

Later in the morning I set up the three basket trellis.  One row of tomato plants are put in place.

I was working in the garage and Carol was at the post office.  Carol Masner opened the side door to the garage door.  I came out and she said that the plants are in the kitchen.  There are two baskets.  We placed them on stools.  One in the living room and

Other in the living room.

The poly is off house six.  They are getting ready for planting new hemp plants.

I found a tomato growing which I named it Cherry Banana.  I took some cuttings and hope that they will roots.

There are a bunch of Box Elder maple tree growing in the yard.  I cut all of them down and painted round-up on the stump.  Some are small.  I loaded them into the truck.

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Re-building

It has been a pretty busy day.  I printed a picture of Carol's grandfather, father, uncle and grandmother.  The print queue had three pictures waiting.  Finally I was able clear the queue and print the picture.

The brackets that I made a couple of days ago were too short.  This morning I made some new ones.  I took several short cuts this time.  Instead of cutting them to length, ripping them to width and depth, I cut them to length and glued the three pieces of twelve inch 2x4's and then glued them together.  I clamped the together with pipe clamps underneath.  I then added two more clamps on top and waited until after lunch to finish cutting them to size.

There was still not time for lunch.  In greenhouse two I planted one six pack with Burpless Cucumbers.  One seed in each cell.  I put them a little tub of water.  The water soaked up and wetted all the seeds.

This tomato plant which I dug up last fall has been growing in house two since then. It three main branches.  I cut one off and staked the other two with bamboo stakes and tomato clips.  The stakes are four feet tall.

There were three tomatoes at the bottom.  Two were ripe and one, the smallest one, was green. I cut the cluster of and that is when I saw the green one.  The largest tomato fell from the stem the result of a small bump.  It looks like it will be a excellent salad tomato because of the easy picking.  Might be able to shake the plant and ripe tomatoes will fall off into large baskets.  They are about 2 1/2 inches long.  The Juliet tomato has the same picking characteristics.

I made a salad for lunch using the two small tomatoes, beet greens and some golden chard.  I other things in the salad are:  small sausage, peas from the freezer, raisons, cheese, and sunflower seeds.

Weeds have been a problem in the greenhouse as well as in the garden.  The weed above is a grassy weed that the next generation of plants will start in a month.

The underside of the bench top had a slight convex  that caused the top bracket to rock. The top was two wide to go through my twelve inch thickness plainer.  The first bench I made was twelve inch wide.  I ripped about one inch off the side.  I then run it through the thickness plainer un-numbered times until the convex surface was changed to straight.

I finished the two brackets.  Trimmed to the right size, softened the all the edges except the bottom edges.  It took me a long time to make a jig two get the holes in the right location and bet the right size  of bit.  I will use lag screws to attach the bracket to the bench.  In doing it this way I can take the bench apart for shipping, or I should say that I can put it in the trunk of the car.  



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What Shall I Call It

I have been intrigued lately about headlines in the new.  What shall if call each post.  So this post is "What Shall I call It"

Yesterday morning I used a long handled stirrup hoe to dig out most of the weeds.  This morning I was on hand and knees getting the rest of the weeds.  The flower bed looks pretty good.

Yesterday, I added 15 new drips.  This afternoon I planted watermelon, Topaz melons, and cucumbers.  I watered them and will need to water daily for the next two weeks.

I mowed the lawn, and then with the weed whip trimmed, and then went out to the iris patch where I sprayed with Kilzal to kill everything out there.

I worked in house one most of the morning.  I weeded and pruned and hung sixteen feet of tomato plant.

Not Much Today

I turned the water on at the drip north of the iris.  I wanted it to soak so when planting tomorrow, the ground would be soft.  One of the dribble tubes blew out.  There is  small stream of water coming out.  I put the dribble tube back in and tied it down with a twist wire.

 This looks like a map of a peninsula, The dark is the land.  In reality one of the dribble tubes is emitting water where the ground will be softened for planting tomorrow or  the next day.

 The photo is in house one.  Drip lines are to water the egg plants, tomato plants, pepper plants.  When it gets hot it expands and cause kinks or buckles/

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