Good afternoon folks! Sorry for the late start; I'm off work on vacation and plumb lost track of the day of the week again.
Got in a good 2+ mile walk this morning with the neighbor lady, puttered around the farm for a while; then caught a nice nap. It's a pretty day outside - not as warm as it's supposed to get later in the week, but nice enough to have the side porch door open to let the fresh air in. Ground is still too wet to till, darn it; but I'm hopeful that it will be dry enough in a day or two - which will hopefully give me time to plant the cool weather crops, strawberries and raspberries before we get another rain. I've got plenty to keep me busy before the ground is ready - need to pick up fallen branches in the yard so Hubby can mow, prune back my Mama's rosebush, cut the deadwood out of the elderberry patch, weed the flower beds again and get some more mulch down in them, clean up around the yard, pot up some bee balm, move a couple or three peony plants - heck, I think I've done wore myself out just thinking about what needs done!
Tomorrow, I need to run in to town to pick up a couple hundred feet of 2' or 3' chicken wire to make into row covers for the new strawberry patch - gotta keep the bunnies and deer from eating them until the plants can spread out and repopulate on their own. While I'm in town, I'll hit Aldi, and the local Feed 'n Seed - need more white clover seed to overseed the yard with, to crowd out the rotten Creeping Charlie and to provide bee fodder. Hubby is going to give the little garden by the porch another tilling, then we'll move the old holey water tank in place and get started filling it with soil - I need to call the sale barn on Wednesday and see if I can get a load of composted cow manure. I'll use the tank to grow sweet 'taters in this year. Did you all know that sweet potato leaves can be cooked and eaten like spinach? Little different taste, but greens are greens when you are hungry for them. They are a little high in Vitamin K, so if you are on a blood thinner or prone to clots, you would probably want to avoid them.
Well, guess I'd better get up and get something done; Hubby is willing to go out and help move stuff around, so I'd better take advantage of it...
Take care all; stay safe out there!
Got in a good 2+ mile walk this morning with the neighbor lady, puttered around the farm for a while; then caught a nice nap. It's a pretty day outside - not as warm as it's supposed to get later in the week, but nice enough to have the side porch door open to let the fresh air in. Ground is still too wet to till, darn it; but I'm hopeful that it will be dry enough in a day or two - which will hopefully give me time to plant the cool weather crops, strawberries and raspberries before we get another rain. I've got plenty to keep me busy before the ground is ready - need to pick up fallen branches in the yard so Hubby can mow, prune back my Mama's rosebush, cut the deadwood out of the elderberry patch, weed the flower beds again and get some more mulch down in them, clean up around the yard, pot up some bee balm, move a couple or three peony plants - heck, I think I've done wore myself out just thinking about what needs done!
Tomorrow, I need to run in to town to pick up a couple hundred feet of 2' or 3' chicken wire to make into row covers for the new strawberry patch - gotta keep the bunnies and deer from eating them until the plants can spread out and repopulate on their own. While I'm in town, I'll hit Aldi, and the local Feed 'n Seed - need more white clover seed to overseed the yard with, to crowd out the rotten Creeping Charlie and to provide bee fodder. Hubby is going to give the little garden by the porch another tilling, then we'll move the old holey water tank in place and get started filling it with soil - I need to call the sale barn on Wednesday and see if I can get a load of composted cow manure. I'll use the tank to grow sweet 'taters in this year. Did you all know that sweet potato leaves can be cooked and eaten like spinach? Little different taste, but greens are greens when you are hungry for them. They are a little high in Vitamin K, so if you are on a blood thinner or prone to clots, you would probably want to avoid them.
Well, guess I'd better get up and get something done; Hubby is willing to go out and help move stuff around, so I'd better take advantage of it...
Take care all; stay safe out there!