Lost My Stirrup Hoe

Watered, checked out the garden.  There are quite a few baby snap beans.  Picked two buckets of tomatoes for Anne next door.  The Gladiator tomato is really producing .  I wasted over and our looking for my stirrup hoe.  I still haven't found it.

There are two drip lines that go from left to right.  There were ten cucumber plants that did not get transplanted.  I did that this morning.  Only a trained eye can see the plants.  That is why I marked them.  The top of the plant is under the cross.   The bottom of the plants are barely below the bottom drip line.  When the roots are established a little, I will train them to the trellis.

 I use a tool, a forked stick,  to hang the tomahook and twine.  I have two of the but can't find them.  Above is the tomahook and the tool.  I made a bevel edge on both ends.  I thought it would be perfect.  It just sled through.  I took it back to the garage where my tools are.

 I put a notch in the end, and sanded it with two different sandpaper grits.  It s smooth and won't catch onto the twine.  It works much better than the other two.

Here is where I finished hanging the tomato plants,  The tomatoes are on the right where you see the driplines.  One the far left are the eggplants and cucumber plants.

For lunch I had a hamburger with tomatoes and lettuce.

Our watermelons really have a problem.  The bottom side seems to grow fast than the top side, which makes the melon lopsided.

I filled this 2 1/2 gallon sprayer went after the weeds in three of the greenhouses.  I couldn't find my hoe and thought that this might be a faster way two get the weeds.

 I was walking through the yard and saw this bumble bee.  I took the picture  as it was flying.  The wings are barely visible.

The bee landed on the adjacent zinnia.

Sampson, our cat was resting where I keep my yard tools.  It looks like the tines of the pitch fork has Sampson stuck to the ground.

Frank Williams and his friend, Sheldon, were here early this afternoon.  They each filled up three or four grocery bags with tomatoes.  They were her for less than an hour.  Frank brought a bag of fertilizer.


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Zinnias, Customer, and Weeds

I got one row ready to plant. I put down pink tape every 18 inches and held them down with a nail.  A tomato plant is placed at each marker.  There are five plants between each post.  I secured the post with a piece of conduit and tie wire.

The posts were not plumb.  I wired a wedge to help hold it plum.

I planted some County Fair Zinnias a couple of weeks ago and transplanted them in to on tray of Jumbo six packs. And another tray of six pack of slim Jims.

 Fremont barberries are new in the above tray.  The old ones are Round leaf Buffaloberry. 

The flowers from an Oak tree in our yard.

Flowers from the Big Tooth maple in our yard.  I little hard to see.  

The early spring look of Stansbury rock daisy, Perityle stansburyi.

How it looks after I cut off all the dead stems.

The above picture and the two below is of the weeding I done on the north native plant garden.

I don't know the name of this plant there are two specimens side by side.  It is a milkweed that bleeds when it is cut.  The milk weed is another one that has to be dug out by the root, if not the weed will grow back.  The seeds blow in the wind.

I dug this type of milk weed up by the roots.  This is about the only war to kill it.

Dug up weeds in the south garden.  There are still a lot more to go.

A Fern Leaf Peonie  which is in full bloom.  Quite a history with this plant.  Got a start from a neighbor, planted it in my yard in American Fork, brought it with us when we moved to Holden, and moved it once to the present location in our backyard.

Comments and questions are welcome.

The Final Pea Harvest

This morning before showering and before breakfast Carol and I started the final pea harvest.  I removed the twine that held the peas off the ground.  At least most of them.  With a shovel, I cut the peas at the root level and carried them with a pitch fork where Carol was picking the peas.  I would have been better if we would have picked them on Monday.  She was able to do that because of her recent procedure at the Utah Valley Hospital.  I started cutting on the west end.  Looking to the east.

This is how it looks after I cut them down.  The potatoes are on the left.

The sweet potatoes are doing well.  Not sure of they will be ready in October.

Still having trouble with the lawnmower.  I started up and drove it in an indirect way to the trailer.  I run out of gas about twenty feet from the trailer.  The gas can was empty.  We drove to Fillmore and filled the five gallon gas container.  We stopped at the market for a few groceries.  I did the watering and then drove the mower on the trailer.  The trailer was secured and off I went.  Ted was busy and I waited for while until be checked out the mower.  He couldn't fix it.  He decided to do a compression test.  I called back around five.  They had worked on it some but did not have it fixed.  They were to call, but haven't called.  

 After lunch I did some weeding on the cucumbers and fasten the runners at the top of the cages.  There are a lot of them.

I wanted to hang a right side up tree basket for a determinate tomato plant.  It is pictured below.  Three wires are attached to the open end of the basket.  The other ends are attached to a large nail in the top of the pipe.  The basket is hanging above the tomato plant.  The plant should grow into the basket.

Weeded the strawberry patch several weeks ago.  The tiny mist weeds are much older now.  I used a stirrup hoe and was able to work quite fast.

The same picture after the weeds were hoed out.

Our sweet corn is ripe.  I picked six ears.  Two of them were damaged by sap beatles and earwigs. Carol had one for supper and I had three.  Very good.

We had four six packs of zinnias.  This evening we planted them by the lemon trees.

No pictures, but I hung seven tomato plants in house one.  There are so many more to do.

Comments and questions are welcomed