It was a beautiful weekend in Central Missouri. I didn’t get terribly ambitious in the garden, but I did manage to get a few minor things accomplished.
I’ve gotten most of the mess cleaned up that was left over from harvesting the winter greens. There’s still a couple hours work remaining to finish that. I put 18 starter cells of basil in the ground, and another half dozen in pots. I tilled up a good bit of the unplanted area. Seeded 75 row-feet of sweet corn, and planted a 30’ row of butternut squash along the north fence.
The tomatoes are finally starting to snap out of the funk they’ve been in due to the cool wet weather we had last month. I reseeded the skips in the pumpkin and cucumber rows. I’ll seed the remaining 250’ row of cucumber next weekend.
I picked up 20 6”x6” white oak posts and 80 1”x6” planks at the sawmill Saturday morning. I’m going to pull up the wire fence between the yard and the horse lot and replace it with board fence. It will be a great improvement in appearance over what’s there now.
Went fishing yesterday and brought home a nice mess of bluegill. Cleaned them as soon as we got home, pulled out the banjo cooker and fried em up for supper.
Goals for this week will be to finish cleaning out the rows where the winter greens were growing and get some okra seed into the ground.
It was indeed beautiful! We made the trip to Springfield. I did indoor cleaning, while Hubby mowed the yard. Cool enough that air - conditioner was not needed indoors.
Ceiling fan and floor fan were enough. Met a guy who will do the mowing going forward. Willing to do handy man work too. So it was a productive trip.
Got in way later than normal. Totally sluggish morning-a little extra coffee to keep going today. Taking a break now. Always seems to be more to do than hours in the day.
If I never posted till the work was done, I’d never post! LOL
Raining here tonight. Started about 9pm. Ground is getting pretty saturated. I want to clean off back patio, but not until things remain dry for at least 2 or three days.
Trash is overdue for burning. Running out of trash cans to put it in. Recycling bins are full.
Hubby bagged all the grass from the lawn mowing in Springfield and brought it home for the compost and leaf piles he has in chicken wire pens. It was extra tall, so we had a full pick up load.