Posted on 03/28/2020 6:12:38 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Thanks very much !
But these were started too early any way, and I still have a lot of seeds I saved, and some 4th of July tomatoes a neighbor gave me, so this week I hope to start them, and have them in the garden about mid May. Thanks and glory be to God.
iris shoots aggressive bee colony and duck pen while swarm traps old muck and foliage bog filter, and then the house roof melt[s]! Man alive, you have had quite a early spring.
Almost out
LGD watching and patiently awaiting livestock to guard, besides chickens
Here we go. Still need to hack a couple of roots down below 6 inches below grade so the tiller won't hit it. The rest can rot. Those little trees in the background will be transplanted soon. Technically should have done that in the fall/winter. They're wild cherry and persimmon.
I beat the rain by about 30 seconds
Knarly! Good job.
Maybe you answered me the first time and I just didn’t see it. Your username, tubebender. Is that in reference to neon?
Now THAT was a lot of work!
What breed of dog? Great Pyrenees? I need one!
Yes, Pyrenees.
Not neon but I have friend who does that. I used a Huth bender in exhaust work...
Now that we just got a half inch of rain and I can’t do anything in the garden and also can’t dig any wood post holes for the perimeter fence, I’m off to pound in some T-Posts. More fun. I do have the four corner posts in and bottom high tensile wire stretched and that gives me my lines. Fencing in 12 acres, something else the dog is patiently awaiting. He came from a 400 acre sheep farm and he’s in an 80x80 pen so he’s quite bored I’m sure.
Ah, ok. I was in the electric sign business for 25 years. I did also do some exhaust work and have used a bender. Did quite a few cat back Flowmaster setups.
It was another wet week here in Central Missouri. Bad hailstorm 30 miles south of here last night. Car windows busted, vinyl home siding shredded, roofs destroyed, etc. No damage here, just had a lot more rain that we don’t need.
Nothing going on in the garden. Can’t even walk across the lawn without sinking in the mud.
Don’t worry, Augie. I’m sure a drought will be in store for you this Summer, LOL!
That’s the way my gardening year always goes, but the drought of 2012 was nearly a killer!
I still had a successful garden because I had a 300’ well and could water it, but for some odd reason that was also the year of the FROGS.
*SHUDDER*
Those HUGE big old Bullfrogs decided to hide anywhere and everywhere at my place where there was the least little bit of moisture. Watering cans were their favorites and they made all sorts of ‘dens’ in my raised garden beds. I have never before, or since, seen frogs that big!
*SHUDDER*
We’re thawed out, but getting rain & snow mix once or twice a week, keeping things too muddy to work the soil.
Thanks to the Wu-Flu, I have at least 1 extra hour/day to get out & do stuff; if business doesn’t pick up, we may get a further cut in hours. In any case, I plan to be out there more this year, so should have a more successful garden.
I have early, mid, and late season seed potatoes; I plan on planting about 25 of each, a much more manageable amount.
As soon as it is dry enough, Green Arrow peas will go in. By then, I should know if the onions & garlic that were not worth harvesting last Fall overwintered, or need replanting.
In addition to our saved long season half-runner butterbeans, I’ll be putting in both bush green beans, and Yard Long pole beans; Also on hand are half-long carrots, Muncher cucumbers, spinach, midseason bicolor corn, and saved squash seed. New for me this year is seed tape for beets; I’ve grown beets several times, but always have trouble keeping the seeds properly spaced.
All that, plus the asparagus & rhubarb should be plenty for us, while still remaining manageable; not having the chickens & rabbits any more will help, too.
Ummmm! FROGS LEGS: taste like chicken...only better!
I have had Frogs Legs and I agree. Delicious!
I just wasn’t mad enough to kill them all and let Gaia sort them out, LOL!
I had my Dock Manager come over and catch a many as he could, then he released them in a nearby pond.
I’m sure we screwed up the Eco-System of that pond for a decade or so, but they should be over it by now. ;)
Looks fantastic!!
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