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Late tonight only enough time for a short message. Garden doing great this year. Diana your bug mix growing great and some flowers already. Now I just have to figure out what’s what. Speaking of canning, hubby discovered this group on gab, recipes and canning porn. Haven’t had a lot of time to explore. https://gab.com/groups/388

Three 12 hour work days DUN.

Drip Irrigation Kit will be here Wed. I work Thurs/Fri and then have three days off so that’s when I’ll try the - Tank Sprayer Pump Running a Small Drip System - experiment.

Going to rake the mulch off the garden and burn it tomorrow. The mulch is grass/leaves I mowed down yonder where the bugs are so now I get seed ticks on me when in the garden. I’ll leave the garden bare for a few days and spray the perimeter so that the escapees of Death Valley(bare dry soil) will die.

I’m also going to pick up a truck bed of compost tomorrow and that will be my new mulch. I’ll put it on this weekend once the ticks are gone. Going to install the drip kit first and then cover it with compost mulch.

Also need to pull back my shade cloth. I set it up as though it was 99 degrees out there just to know/have that setup when I need it. Will have to ponder how to pull it back so it’s easy to extend back out, after I kill the ticks of course.

Pole beans ain’t having a good time. I have a mole/vole running back and forth under them. I started them in peat pots so the pots are pushed up every day. Something else to kill and a design revision to the high tunnel. Underground barrier around the perimeter.

Front yard garden is finished, aside from the mole hunt and maybe replanting beans.

Yesterday
* Drip irrigation installed and working fine.(big water saver)
* Shade cloth pulled back but ready to extend over the entire area when/if needed.
* Picked up a truck bed load of compost for mulching and will dig a little in on each side of the rows first.

Taking tomorrow off as a PTO day which will turn this week’s, bi-weekly three day weekend, into a four day weekend.

High tunnel time.

If I get the frames built, treat the surface rust, get them in primer and get the post holes fully dug, that’ll be fine. I don’t have the primer but do have all the additives it requires.

Automotive paint itself will cost more plus I’ll need to buy the additives, activator/reducer so that will have to wait a week.

Might be able to rent a walk behind trencher for the mole exclusion trench. I’m thinking heavy duty pond liner with plenty of holes big enough for water and tiny soil life to get through but too small for moles. Trench will be 2-3 foot outside of the frame/tunnel.