The Day After Freeze

Finished with dry apples. I called Robert this morning to ask some questions about the millers/moths that were in house two.  Shane and Duston thought that they were eating the leaves of the hemp plants.  He said that the millers don't have the ability to chew.  The caterpillars do the eating.  He thought that slugs were eating the plant's leaves.  He told me to lift up the hemp bag and see if any were under the bag.  We found three.

I started to clean Frank Williams' sprayer.  I used it to put a white wash on the greenhouses.  When if finished using it early this spring I left it between house two and three.  It was there until a couple of days ago when I moved it into house three.  The water had evaporated from the tank.  It left about an inch of white chalky like residue at the bottom of the tank.

Frank wanted to use the sprayer to spray his lawn.  They will be coming here soon to get it.  It would be bad on my part to send it home in the condition it was in.  I cleaned the tank,  the wand, and most of the connecting hoses.  It took me most of the morning and some of the afternoon.

I was going to dig potatoes after lunch.  Carol wanted to dig them before lunch.  It took us about forty-five minutes to dig them.  Two of the tubs contain red Pontiac and the other one is Yukon gold potatoes.  

Greenhouse two is nearly ready for the rest of the hemp plants.   They will fit on the twelve foot wide weed barrier.

One of the signs of fall is the leaves that lay on the lawn.

I moved all the hoses that were left on the lawn out to the garden.  They will be out of the way and I will bring them back in the spring.


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Preparing for Freeze

We started the morning getting ready to dry our apples. I peeled with the peeler/slicer.  Carol put them in the lemon like juice mix and put them on the dryer.

I walked out to the asparagus plants and thought that I would cut down a few each day until I got them all.  I didn't work that way.  I got my clippers and cut all of the asparagus down;  There were several other patches around.  I got all of them.

Another photo of the asparagus plant.

A late planted small pea patch has been producing peas for over a week now.  Next year I may plant a fifty foot row in the late summer.

I cleaned the padding for the patio chairs.

I called Steve Regan company and got a quote for greenhouse poly for Shane England.  I took a while to get it.  I made a screen shot because none of my printers will work.  I forwarded to him the email. Later I showed the screen shot to him.

I put Robert's cacti plants in the garage to keep it from freezing.

These other cacti I put in a large box.  I can't throw them away, at least not for now.  I covered them with several large piece of burlap.

The pepper, eggplants and tomato plants from house six are stacked outside.  I started the water running to help with decomposition.

I found this chair hiding in the garage.  I cleaned it up and put it in the little bedroom.

The rest of the pictures of things that I hope to sale.

I turned off the power to the well and drained the pipes.  I turned on every hose bibs on the water pipes.

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Moved Trees/Shrubs to Garage

A good Day at the Manti Utah Temple.

These are the pictures for the day.

We made it home a little before one.  I walked out to house six and all of the plants were gone except a few cucumber plants.  The photo is from the west looking east.

This is from the east looking west.   The green on the left are the cucumber plants.  The were trellised on concrete reinforcement wire.  I pulled off the cucumber vines. Shane and I rolled them up and took them out side.

Yesterday, I moved the dracaena which was on the front porch, to house six.  It is the green one in the white pot.

This afternoon,  I dug up the dracaena plant.  Shane and Duston helped me move it.  We put it on the dolly and pushed it into the garage.  We put it on some bricks. the plant was too big.  Some of the top leaves were pushed against the ceiling.

Later I pulled up the lemon plants.  They were easy to pull out of the ground where they have been all summer   We will keep them in the garage until next spring.  They will have to be watered.

I measured house one to get dimensions of the roof to order poly.  I called Steve Regan to get a quote.


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Some Shrubs are Inside

Saturday 5 October

Deer in the yard.  I couldn't find the phone number of the person from the DWRS.

Another photo of the deeer.

Here the guys are figuring how to wire for the LED grow lights.  Shane and Duston are making great progress.

Monday, 7 October

I dug up the purple darcenia.  There was a large root growing through the bottom of the pot.  I cut it off with my hand saw.

I also dug up the pomegranate shrub.  It had one large pomegranate hanging from near the top of the plant.  It fell of while I was taking it to house six.

The Dracaena is placed next to the pomegranate shrub.  I also brought over a small green Dracaena.

I put on clear oil on it.  This stand and another one will be the home of two poinsettias.  They will be in the little bedroom at night and in the front room during the day.

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House Two is Full

I picked two buckets of green tomatoes and took them to the post office.  I then put a message on the Holden Face Book page announcing that there would be green tomatoes at the post office.  I also picked a couple dozen that were nearly ripe.

Hemp Plants are Here

I thought that I was going to my cardiologist at eleven this morning.  I was fasting.  When I checked my email about nine. and a message said that it was Thursday, October 3rd.  Well I had some breakfast.

There were six deer in the yard this morning.  Later I saw them in our garden where the pole beans are located.  All six of them left and were running up the road towards main street.

I picked the cucumbers.  There were not very many.  The smallest harvest this season.  I made the prepared the CSA bucket.

I dug up one sweet potato plant and was pleasantly surprise.  Even though they struggled in early spring and the deer at off most of the leaves this fall.  This one had a nice group of sweet potatoes.  

 I sprayed off most of the dirt out side and washed them in the sink.  They are on a dinner plate in the sink.

I filled the bucket with cucumbers, carrots, red beets, peppers, and tomatoes.   We then drove to Fillmore where I delivered them to Kim Christenson at State Bank.  We then got a few things at the market.  After that we drove to Kanosh to see the apartment and house that Thayne Christenson is building.  We never found it.  We then came home.  We filled the car with gas on the way.

We need a place for our dracaenas and, pomegranate shrubs.  I cleaned the southeast corner of house six.  I cut away a piece of weed barrier.  I have a large garbage can and a large box that I am using for garbage.   I swept up the dirt.  Some I put out side and other I put between the cucumber plants.

I got the blower and an extension cord to have it ready for in the morning when the wind would becoming from the west.  I blew some anyway and a breeze was coming in the east door.

I was about five when Shane and Duston came in with the hemp plants.  It was interesting that the grower used Dixie cups for some of the plants.  The hemp plants have a pink glow because of the LED lights.


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 started this morning by picking cucumber

A Bump in the Road

We hurried home from the Manti Utah temple.  I am expecting Robert.  We are meeting with Great Basin Hemp and Farm Coop which will be called hereafter as Great Basin.  We met for nearly an hour.  Great Basin is going to pay us a lot of money for the use of our greenhouses.  This is a rent to own.  What they pay in rent will go to the purchase of the nursery and our home.  In four or five years they will own our place.  Carol doesn't want to sell our home.  It will be paid for in about eighteen months.  We will be able to live here until we die.   After the meeting worked to about 5:30.  They went home and Shane came back with some of his kids and worked longer.

There seems to me to be something wrong with that concept.

After lunch  I took the above photo.  There are a lot of LED  lights extend the hours of daylight for faster plant growth.  Duston was working on the lights  when I went out to lock up the chickens and shut the doors in house six.  The lights were still on at nine.  They were of when I looked at ten.

I dug and pulled up the onions.  Carol helped me finish.  We also picked quite a few pole beans.


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