Weeded Pea Plants

Up early this morning and read another chapter in the Book of Helaman in the Book of Mormon.  After breakfast I watched my Saturday morning woodworking shows.  As soon as it was over I put on a sweater began weeding in the garden.  I turned on the water and let it run down the row of peas.  After it got near the end of the row I began weeding.  Most of the weeds were easy to pull out of the muddy water.  There were some large Mallow plants that had deep roots.  I took some pulling to pull each one up.

The above photo shows a lot of weeds that I pulled. 

I went into the house and watched a little TV.  When I went to go out side this box of strawberries were wrapped setting on the back porch.  The came from Carla across the street.

After I finished pulling weeds, I began to put up the trellis,  It is difficult to do by myself.  I used conduit as stakes.  I pounded them in at a slight angle.  The above photo shows one conduit and a section of weeded peas.  

This photo shows the conduit and welded wire trellis.  

The doorbell rang.  I went to the door and there was delivery person with a bouquet of roses.  They mentioned that they were Mother's Day for Carol.  I took hold of them with both hands.  I didn't want drop them.

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The Garden is Growing

I am seeing a dermatologist at 11:30 this morning.  I have a lot of pre-cancer things on the right side of my face.  After breakfast I started hoeing weeds in the garden.

The zoochini is coming up.  When I looked at it this morning,  some bug ate of the leaves of most of them.  There is a one left.   I hoed most of the weeds in the potatoes, cabbage, and a row of tomato plants.

I cut off the tops of the poinsettias, hoping for new stems and flowers 

I found two Blue Lake pole beans.  One is ready to pick and the other one is small.

While I was seeing the dermatologist Carol did some shopping.  I was in the exam room for about five minutes.  I made a deposit at State Bank and at the credit union.  I payed a bill at Zions Bank.  We order chicken at Five Buck pizza.  It took about fifteen minutes for them to get it ready.  We came home and ate it.

 I put up this twenty foot pipe.  It is above a row of tomato plants that are about eighteen inches apart.  I will train the tomatoes to follow twine  trellis which is will be hooked to the pipe.

It was quite a project.  I drilled holes through the pipes.  I pounded the pipe into the ground.   I bolted an eight foot 2x2 to the pipe.   It took several hours to get the three supports.  I used tie wire as well
as bolts.  A stepladder was helpful. 

I screwed two brackets, one each side to hold the horizontal pipe in place. 

I could not get the hole in the pipe to line up with the hole 2x2, so I wired them together with tie wire.

One of them I got the hole right at the top, but the bottom I wired together. 

I pulled a carrot but it broke because of the hard ground.  I watered all the vegetables in the raised beds.  It was much easier to pull the carrots.   I washed them and took them into the house where I cut off the tops.  They are in a zip bag in the fridge.

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House Six, Iris, and Watering

This has been a hot busy day

I pruned some of the tomato plants in house six.  I then made the trellis for a bunch more.  The fruits are getting larger.  We should be picking tomatoes by the end of the month.

We had a water turn last Wednesday.  I watered the garden.  It took all afternoon.  I was able to turn water down three or four rows and then come back in twenty minute to see if the water had gone to the end of the row.  I slow the water down to let it soak longer.

I dug weeds in house six.

Last week I dug up a sample of every of every iris that we have.  This afternoon I pruned the leaves and remove some of the soil.  I got a wheelbarrow full of them.

I dug a trench to heel them in.  Those at the top of the picture have been heeled in.  Those at the bottom of the picture are yet to be heeled in.

 A close-up have already been watered.

 I took a picture of the sweet potato starts that I planted two weeks ago.  The picture shows a new leaf emerging.