Irrigation From the Well

The upright poles and 2x2x8 feet posts are called posts and the come in pairs.   Most are held together with a piece of plywood.   After morning chores and breakfast I made one pair.

A couple of days ago I moved the Perityle stansburyi to the above pot. It has perked up some.  I have it outside in the shade.

I put it up in house one.  Later in the day I made two more pairs which is a total of three pairs.  I cut a small dado through the top that will receive the overhead wire.

About 11:00, one of the town employees brought me a large truck load of grass clippings that came from the cemetery.  I wanted it on the driveway.  It was much easier to get a pitchfork under the grass when the grass is on asphalt.  It is difficult when on the ground.  

We drove to Fillmore.  Carol had an appointment for and echogram. When I got home I worked more on hanging tomato plants.    I did the watering again.  The plants dry our pretty fast when it is so hot.

I loaded the wheelbarrow many times and hauled them out to various place in the garden.  The main purpose was to cover weeds and prevent weeds from growing. 

I blew the grass that was left on the driveway off.

I watered the onions, peas, potatoes, and the strawberry patch as shown in the above photo. The strawberries are the other side of the irises. 

There was a lot of debris from the tree on the patio.  I blew it off.

Lastly, I picked a couple of cucumbers.  They are about fourteen inches long.

Comments and questions are welcome.  

Changed the Oil and Mowed the Lawn

After morning chores and breakfast, I hung more tomatoes and cucumber plants.

The Sun Gold tomatoes are beginning to get ripe.  Can't wait.  I notice one yesterday, now three or four plants have ripening tomatoes. 

I finished cleaning off the lawn.  There was a large triangular piece of plywood that into 3 1/2 half inch squares.  I use the as a footing for the posts in house one.

Yesterday I transplanted these watermelon seedlings.  They are still looking good.  They are outside in the shade.

This large cactus has a lot of pups growing on it, plus a lot of weeds.  I removed weeds in many of the plants and it the same here.  I was going to break off all the pups, and let them scab some and then plant each in their own pot.

These are squash plants.  They have been outside for over a month.  They will take off when planted in the garden.

This has been and interesting tomato plant.   A late volunteer which had one tomato about the size of the smaller ones in the photo.  They have been getting ripe all spring in house one.  They were only one small bite.  It looked to me that it would take to long to fill a pint container.  Therefore, I would not try to propagate it.  When I saw this big one I changed my mind.

I took three cuttings and stuck them in this quart bottle.  They wilted some so I put them in the outside shade.  For fun I took a cutting from a cucumber plant.  Speaking of cucumbers, I picked three nice ones.

I decided to mow the lawn.  I raised the blade up one notch.  I dumped the grass in the garden.  The mower worked pretty good at first, but by the time I was finished, it was not doing as well.  Gasoline was in the oil again.  I started mowing before lunch.

For lunch I made this salad.  Most everything is from our garden.  Sun flower seeds and eggs are from the market.

The dracaena was taken from house two and planted west of the driveway.  The pot is buried in the ground so it won't blow over.

A few other plants were removed from house two and put on the front steps.

I sprayed the morning glory in the north garden.  There five big patches and I sprayed individual plant in other parts of the garden.

I made another pair of posts.  I cut some plywood that was part of the truck box into rectangular pieces that were 16x24 inches.  The one in the picture looks a little big.

At different times during the day I hung tomato and cucumber plants.

These native iris were full of weeds.  I took  some time this late afternoon to pull them out.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Transplant Watermelon Seedlings

I took Carol to the hospital where they drew some blood for a couple of other tests.

I had one seedling of Stansbury Rock Daisy, Perityle stansburyi.  I transplanted it in a 4.5 inch pot this morning.  I was growing in the tray under the pot.  This afternoon it had really wilted.  It should look better in the morning after a cool night.

I worked for a couple of hours and finished removing the box.  There were a lot of screws and bolts that I removed.  From here it looks like a different truck.  I hauled most of the boards to house five.  The plywood is leaning against a large poplar tree.

Just before lunch I had a female customer and four kids.  A four month old baby boy and three daughters, the oldest being seven years.

 A couple of weeks ago I planted some old Crimson Sweet watermelon seeds that got over ten years ago.  I planted them pretty thick in a jumbo six pack.  My intent was to pull all of them out except one.  I pulled one out and it had some nice roots.   I cut one cell from the six pack which had eleven seedlings.

The potting soil is pretty dry.  I filled the six pack and set in water a bucket.  After a couple of hours they are really wet.

I carefully pulled the seedlings apart and put them  in an other jumbo six pack, but only one seedling per cell.  I have never done this before.  

At the end of the day, they look pretty good.

Iris missouriensis, Wild Iris, is blooming in containers.

This evening primrose growing west of house six is blooming.  I don't remember planting it.  There are several growing in this area.

The six cucumber plants are doing well.  This is one of three burpless cucumbers growing on these vines.  We have nearly a hundred plants growing in other greenhouses.

I did quite a lot of weeding today.  I removed all of the weeds from around then perennials.

 I dug up most of the annual weeds in the north garden.  I left the morning glory, bind weeds.  I will spray those in the morning.

These weeds are on the south edge of the north garden.  I dug most of those.    I also dug weeds in the strawberry patch.  There is one ripe strawberry which I picked and later ate it.

Questions and comments are welcome.

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The Afternoon

Made it home around 2:30.  Changed clothes and walked out to the nursery.  Everything looked good.  Came back to the house and had some lunch.  Carol didn't feel well.  I took her to Fillmore to see a doctor.

The arugula pictured above had gone to seed with three to four foot stems that tipped over.  I cut most of them down and put on and outside thing for plants.  I'm hoping that new shoots will grow.

I worked an hour on removing the box.  I should finish it some time tomorrow.  There were a lot of bolts and screw to take out.  The plywood on the right side came off.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Big Plans for Today

I began the days work rebaiting the hornet trap.  Soft cat food didn't work.  I put out a pint bottle of peaches last night to remember what to do when I got up.  Carol does this all the time.  She will put some of the items the night before for fixing the next day.

I dumped the peaches into the tote.

I put on the lid and placed on top of the freezer.  The freezer doesn't work.

The above project is for holding the overhead wires in house one.  I use two eight foot 2x2's and four two foot  2x1's.  It is pretty solid.

Here it is in house one.  I put a small square piece of plywood under each post to prevent it from sinking into the ground.

I drove Carol to Fillmore Hospital to set a date for an echogram.  She took the order with her, and found out that the order which was faxed by her doctor was received.  She could have had the test done last Friday, but now has to wait until next Friday.

 The trailer was full of branches and stuff which I took to the dump.  When I got home I loaded the lawn mower onto the trailer.  I was surprised that it started and loaded pretty easy.  After I loaded Richard, my neighbor drove the lawnmower that he got from us.  He got it fixed and mowed some of the weeds and grass between the ditch and road.

I drove to Fillmore to have a piston compression test.  It tested out at 150 psi which seems to be normal.  A new Toro lawnmower cost $4200.00.

When I got back home I drained the oil, which was most gasoline.  I drove the mower back to house three.  It ran much better than I expected.

The Clift Rose is in full bloom.  They are really pretty now.

 I have been wanting to remove the box that is on the truck.  I started this afternoon.  There were a lot of screws, nuts and bolts.  The truck is on the lawn.

There is a picture of both sides.

and the end. 

I removed the bolts and screws from the top and then from both sides.  Top fell as I remove the last bolts.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Visitors Today

This morning I walked around the yard and garden took some pictures.

Stansbury Rock Daisy, Perityle stansburyi.  The seeds for this plant was planted over two years ago.  It and two there plants survived the winter in a cold frame.  I potted them several months ago.  There is one more that germinated this spring.  The seeds look like a shiny speck of pepper.

This tomato plant was started sometime in March.  Tasmanian Chocolate.  A new variety for me this year.

Richard, our oldest son, visited us this afternoon.  He is on the right.  David Chidester, a life time friend is between his two daughters.

The same as above.  That large Dracaena has been in the greenhouse all winter.  They helped bring it out.  The plant is tipped in the pot.  We dug a hole to plant it deep enough to resist the wind.  We drove three half inch conduits on the north side down through the inside edge.  It needs some on the south sided.

I looks pretty straight here.  Red geraniums were pulled out last fall.  When the days grew longer, the geraniums began to grow again. 

The pomegranate shrub was done much the same way/  We had to trim some of the soil away and prune some of the roots to make it stand up straight.

Three half inch conduit stakes were driven in close to the inside edge in a triangular spacing.

This is how it looked after finishing.

Comments and questions are welcome.