What kind of maters & beans?
We finally got a break from rain too. Hubby got the first half of the garden tilled. Neighbor had broken it up a few weeks ago with ‘the big tractor’. Hubby’s latest project was replacing the motor on my grandfather’s old troybilt horse tiller. New tiller? $2K. New motor? $100. No choice there LOL.
Some kind of hybrid maters from tractor supply, sweet 100 or something, cherry maters. I bought some heirloom mater seeds but I’m not set up for seed starting yet. Bright spot in the house is also a cool spot, no grow lights etc. Two months old and 3 inches tall LOL. I stuck them in the garden today, will see what happens. Those were yellow pear cherry maters. We’re not big on slicers. My wife likes a BLT occasionally but not enough to warrant growing them. We use the crap out of tomato based sauces,(who doesn’t?) but that takes a lot of area and a lot of work processing and other ingredients to turn them into a finished product. It’s a plan though.
Pole beans, purple and green speckled, cant remember the variety and also bush green beans, both from Baker Creek. I went by the reviews.
I bought a little 16” wide tiller from TS this year. Been doing it by hand but that was getting old, as am I. It was on sale for $650, normally $750. I’ve got a sub-compact tractor that would run a 4 foot wide PTO tiller but those are $1600 and near impossible to find used. Someday.
Got a few goats this Spring but didn’t plan on getting them until fall so that took away from my garden effort. Got covid stimulus and bought goats with it. Had to finish the perimeter fence and added to it this week. The goats came from a pasture situation and we have mostly woods so they were eating grass/weeds etc down pretty low. Seem scared of the woods. Don’t want them to get loaded with parasites and definitely don’t want them killing stuff off so I gave them more room. Need to work on paddocks. Yay, more *&^$ing fence work.
Next cool front, I need to get into the woods and cut firewood for next winter. We normally don’t have a Spring. It tends to jump from the 40s to the 80s. I lost a month of time in the woods because of that. Ticks, chiggers and snakes are coming out big time. I’ve got three big red oaks that got hit by lightning last year. Should be enough.
Needed to do some burning off but it’s been too wet which is why I had to add fenced in area.
Never ends.