Caught up on Some Work.

 Watered some in the Garden.  I put away all of the watering pipes that we used yesterday.  I did this while the water was running on the melon plants.  The water went quite slowly and I had some time to dig out some weeds.

I found about a dozen mor snail and put them in the bottle.

The weeds were extra thick under these cucumber plants.  They are dead now.  There are a few cucumbers that look like they were touched by the chemical.  I put more tomato clips on the cucumbers training them up the twine.

These Goliath tomatoes are looking good.  I also pruned all the leaves below the bottom fruit and a few leaves higher up. Most of the vines are heavy with tomatoes.

I pruned and clipped the tomato plants to the twine trellis.  The clips are circled in black.

One branch is over three feet long.  There were a lot of suckers.  I was in house six most of the day.

I pulled all of the weeds in the cucumbers and eggplants.  The above photo shows dead weeds killed by Round-up.

There is a five inch cucumber in house six.  Won't take long for it to be ready for harvest.

The earwigs and pill bugs are causing a lot of damage in the flowers and in the greenhouses.  I made a mix of one cup of water, fourth cup or cider vinegar, and one teaspoon of dawn soap.  Anxious to see it in the morning.


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Irrigation Yesterday & Today

9 July Tuesday 

Up early this morning and off to the Manti Utah Temple.  A good day at the temple and after lunch we came home.

Water Turn in the morning.  I laid out the first pipe that is in the backyard against the trees on the south side.  I put a cap on the pipe that goes into Raymond's yard.  When the water is turned down in the morning, it will come right into the back lawn.

I have some melon plants that needed to be put out in the garden.  I tilled down the bottom of last year's row and then cleaned it out with a hoe.  Ready for tomorrow.

I got the gate that turns the water in our direction and made some adjustments to in an attempt to get all the water.  I pulled out all of the old staples and trimmed off a little more than an inch from the bottom.  

On the back cut to short pieces from a garden hose that I don't use any more.  I drilled holes the hose with a forstner bit.  Then I drove screws through the holes into the gate,  to hold the hose in place.

Carol waters part of the hill on the east side of the house.  We collected over thirty snails.

Doctor Gross expressed a desire to get a CSA bucket of vegetables.  Fawn Hunter, his nurse will deliver it at work.   She goes to work at 7:45 in the morning.  It was late and I had to get it ready tonight.  I finished and it was after dark.  The above photo shows some of the contents of the bucket.  This is a face report.  The  egg plants (black, purple, and white), parsley, onions. cucumbers, leeks,  red beets, tomatoes, (yellow lemon, gladiator, and big beef), cherry tomatoes (cherry banana, Juliet, black cherry, and purple cherry).

I found this yellow jacket nest in the truck.  I grabbed it with a plastic shopping bag.

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I thought I would get the water pretty early.  I drove to the head of the ditch, but the water wasn't there.  I drove home and then went back.  No water.  I then drove to the water master's home.  His truck was gone. I then went home.  I again went to the head of the ditch.  There water was there.  I put the gate in and kept the ditch clean.

We planted more sweet corn.  The seed, peaches and cream, is almost gone.  I need new seed for next year.

I put out the melon plants, but there was not enough room in the row for all of the plants.  The was easy to start and I made another row.    I laid out all of the plants.  Then with the shovel I made holes in both rows.  One for each plant.

I started water running down the rows.

The two rows are watered,

The back lawn is pretty well watered.  I then laid the pipe out for the east lawn.  It is also well watered.

This is how I joined pipes of two different sizes together.  Parts of a towel is wrapped around the smaller pipe and tied on with twine.

We drove to Fillmore for groceries and gas.


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A Lot of Work Today, Not Many Pictures

Had lot to do today and was busy all day.  After breakfast and a little news I started to work.  I watered the pots and baskets.   The trailer was loaded with tree branches and there was a pile of branches just north of the lawn.  Carol asked me if were going to take them to the dump today.  I told her no.  There are a lot of other things that need to be done first.

First I clipped some of the cucumber plants to the twine trellis.  Some are connecting to the twine with their tendrils.  Others need a little help.  Second I clipped most of the eggplants to the twine with a tomato clip.  I did a lot of branch pruning.  Some of the branches are in the aisle.

The other hibiscus plant has a few stems that have fallen over.   Carol asked me to get one of the cages to put around it.  The cage diameter was way short.  I cut six stakes and made a sharp stakes to hold them.  I drove them into the ground  I tied the twine to one of the stakes wound them around each stake.  I then wrapped the twine near the top of each stake.  It is holding pretty good.

I hooked the trailer to the truck.  I went pretty fast.  Sometimes I back to the trailer, and mist the hook.  I would drive up and backup to the trailer again.  I would have to do it many times before I got it right.  I loaded the rest of the trimmed branches on to the trailer.  I tied them down with some heavy twine.  Carol went with me to the dump.

The yellow jackets have a home in the truck.  They were waiting for me when I brought the truck back.  I backed the trailer into the west yard, blocked the wheels, and unhooked the trailer.  I left the truck there and the wasps are flying around where I usually park the truck.

Carol had a little another little project for me.  She had a sprinkler running  on the south end of the hill east of the house.  She wanted me to pick up the snails.  I got an empty mayonnaise bottle and found thirty-three snails.  Fifteen were in the same square foot.

I filled the sprayer with weed killer and began spraying the weeds.  There were some big weeds in the center of house five.  I put the sprayer down and dug up the bigger weeds.  I sprayed the rest of them.

I went back to house six and raked up the eggplant branches, and I did a little weeding.

The amaryllis in house two are not doing well.  It is to hot there.  Cleaned the bench next to house two.  

I put all of the amaryllises and a few other things on the bench.  We will be at the Manti Utah temple in the morning so I watered everything that I usually water in the mornings.

I wanted to prune the tomatoes and plant the melons today.  I didn't get to do either one of these.


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Tomatoes Good and Bad

I talked to Kasey Penney a couple of days ago.  My chainsaw was not ready. I also asked him to look at the trees that needs to be cut down. He said that he would bring the chain saw and look at the trees.  While he was here.  It was about nine this morning when he arrived.  He came with the tractor and chipper and a huge Cherry picker bucket.  It looked like he was going to cut down the trees this morning.   The crew consisted of two men and his twelve year old son.  He would charge $200 and hour.

The chain saw started right up.  I cut a large branch out of the Flamingo Maple.  The branch had showed up as a Box Elder tree.  I cut it into pieces and loaded it on the trailer.  I should have pulled it over the shredder.

Carol watered the hill east of the house.  She asked me to gather up the snails.  I found one on the front of the hill and a dozen or so on the east side of the hill.
gathered Snails

House six was still cool.  There were a lot of tomatoes that touched the soil and many were rotten and some had a spoil spot.  I picked them up and fed them to the chickens.  I then went back to pick all the ripe or nearly ripe tomatoes.  While doing this I found a bunch more that were rotten.  Ended up with a bucket that was nearly full.

After lunch I began to prep the lawn for mowing.  I pruned some trees to make it easier to mow.  I made a pile of the branches on the edge of the driveway.  I will take them over to the shredder.  There were some irrigation tubing on the lawn.  I put all of it in the back of the truck.  I then moved the hoses out of the way.

I am getting pretty fast at mowing now.  And have less trimming to do.  I worked fast to get Kim's vegetable bucket ready.  We then drove to Fillmore to make deposits and deliver the Vegetable bucket.  Kim was at the State Bank.

prepared bucket for Adam Remkes and family.  It took me about and hour.  I then delivered it.  The live in Holden..

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The Fourth of July

I watered the potted plants and then did a little work at the nursery.

The eggplants in house six are getting pretty big.  Their habit is similar to tomatoes and peppers.  I pruned all of the branches and hung them on the twine wit a tomato clip.  Later I watched some videos about eggplants.

We picked up Carol Masner and drove to Fillmore to watch the parade.  There were about forty entries and took quite awhile to go by.  Every float, I don't think that they can be called floats,  threw out candy.  By the end of the parade all of the kids, and some of their parents, were in the road leaving a narrow path for the floats to pass by.

I got this selfie.  Carol was not very happy about it.

The young men and women of the ward put the flags out on most Holidays.  It cost the home owner $25.00 each year for this service.

I worked in the garage for over two hours cleaning.  I took a lot of it to the dump.  I found the container for a carrot cake.   It was dated 1-7-2003.

 I dug the garlic a couple of days ago.  It is now hanging in the garage upside down to dry.

I found some stiff wire laying on the garage floor.  I started to make Toma Hooks for the tomato plants.  It was hard to bend and I couldn't cut with my hand held wire cutters.  I bent it and put it in the garbage.

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How Much Can I Do

Tuesday, July 2 yesterday

Tuesday is our temple day.  We had a good day and had lunch after our shift.  The last three or four weeks we had come directly home.

Towards evening I began digging weeds.  I started on the west end where it was shady.  As the sun went lower in the west, there was more shade.   I weeded until I ran out of shade. I went into the garage and worked on the stool that I started a couple of weeks ago.  I went back into the house when it was time for the news.  The above photo shows the area that is pretty much weed free.  

I also durg  some black poly tubing or pipes that have been in the part of the yard for three or four years.  It is laying on then lawn near the truck.

Wednesday, July 3 today
After the news this morning I went to work in the yard.

The hybiscus is getting rather large.  I made six wooden stakes and drove them into the gound sortof a six piece pie shape.  I tied one end of a piece of twine to a stake and wrapped it around each stake and tied it to the first stake.  I stake is visible in the photo.

There are a lot of alliums growing in the yard.  I cut down a lot of them in the dry garden north of the house next to the road.

We have a fuchsia that is pretty sick looking.  I is in a waxed newspaper pot.   I transplanted it into another pot.  I added some fertilizer to it.  The fuchsia is on the left and the larger pot on the right. 

The Lemons, our neighbors, hung a huge flag of the United States of America on the south side of their big barn.  The fourth of July tomorrow.  It is lit up at night.

I sprayed a large tank of round up on the weeds at the west end of the orchard and more weeds in the south west corner of our yard.

I dug the garlic and left it lying in the garden.

Carol suggested that I put it in the shade.  I watched several You Tube videos on harvesting and storing garlic.  Keeping it in the shade and dry were the most common suggestions. 

We drove to Fillmore for a few groceries.  I was to get some bug bait, but we hurried home.

A pleasant surprise today.  Almost every cucumber plant had a female flower.

The space between the peppers and egg plants are full of weeds.

It took me about forty five minutes in a hot greenhouse to dig them up.  I raked the in small piles.

I dug up all of the wild lettuce weeds in our strawberry patch. I worked there on my hands an knees for an hour and half.  I dug them with a large knife.

 I finished the stool that I have been working on for a month.  It is light weight and pretty strong.

 Another picture from a different angle.


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Hottest Day

I started work in house six right after breakfast.  I wanted to get as much done before it got to hot.  I is wash day and I came back to help Carol make the bed.  I watered the pots in the front yard.  Carol and I looked for snails and found a bunch.  No picture this time.   I went back out to house six and pruned all of the branches on the tomato plants.  Some branches were small and some were two feet long.  I went up and down the rows.  After finishing that I clipped the to the twine with a tomato clip.  I stopped for lunch and then finished a little while later.

I gave the chickens one large beet a couple of days ago. I took this picture this morning to show what is left.

There was a spot in house six that had two sick looking tomato plants.  I pulled it up and replaced it with one that has been growing in house two for several months.  It had to good branches.  One branch clipped to the twine on the left and the other one to the twine on the right.

Several years ago, Robert went to South America where he found an interesting cactus.  He cut of a stem and the above photo is a picture of it now.

It is has a flower at the base.


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