[Augie]

Horse poo is good stuff. I use it by the ton on the veggie garden and orchard trees. It’s much easier to handle large quantities now that I have the loader tractor. The older I get the less I like the shovel.

[Marcella]

Replanted with new seeds the ones that didn't come up with other stuff plus sockmonkey, planted the tomato and lemon balm you sent. I replanted tomatoes that didn't make it through cold outside as well as the cucumbers and hot peppers. The sunflowers were in the other stuff so planted new seeds of those. In all, 15 new cups are under grow lamp. That includes three or four new Tromboncino squash in one cup. All the cups have more than one seed so hopefully I'll have bunches of plants soon.

I have seedlings in larger pots under the grow lamp but it's supposed to be 39 tonight and don't want to put them in greenhouse with that temp tonight. After tonight, we have 50s at night.

[Sarajevo]

I emptied 1000lbs of horse manure out of the back of the truck, and have another 1000lbs in the trailer. I made a pile of the load from the truck and was wondering how bad my back would ache after spreading it, then I saw the chickens at work. The pile is almost flat already, and they're working on emptying the trailer all by their selves. Right where I need it too!

I need a couple more loads of manure to refill the raised beds. I'm hoping the rancher I get it from has some piles of fresher manure. Less weight and it'll help loosen the underlying soil better.