I'm preparing for the garden season this week. The weather is wet but it's warm, nothing rubber boots and a hat can't handle.
I'd like to hit the ground running for a change. Winter always seems to linger and linker then BAM! one day it's hot and muggy, Somehow spring catches me by surprise and then I feel behind in the garden. They're little projects:
- Make 3 new trellis's as I plan to grow more pie pumpkins this year and want them up, off the ground. (allotting 2 hours)
- Repair the blueberry cage, which is chicken wire and pvc pipe. (4 hours)
- Repair a tomato trellis - I string em up and over a pvc pipe, overhead but last year it warped under the load of beefsteaks. Moving up from 1" to 1.5"pvc and adding support in the center. (30 minutes)
- Construct an additional strawberry cage - now I have a full 10' long raised bed of strawberries (yum!) 4 hours.
- Prune 2 peach trees. I don't like them more than 7' tall because I hate harvesting from a ladder. (1 hour)
- Prepare JADAM recipes for the season. (3 hours)
- Add a security camera to my system so I can keep an eye on the garden. I sometimes wonder if I'm loosing produce to 4 legged varmints or the 2 legged kind. (1 hour)
... explain please. I can enough for an army usually (the last 3 or 4 years being the exception). Today for lunch we are having kielbasa canned with potatoes and green beans and seasonings. It's a tad spicy, but not bad. It was an inspiration last year when the potatoes and late green beans came in at the same time.Prepare JADAM recipes for the season. (3 hours)
Hello everyone.
Very tired the majority of the time these days. Move to my niece 's house is not turned out as I thought it would. Not only did they force me to leave behind about 1/3rd of my preps, but are actively opposing me replacing these. Feel very isolated and alone in terms of having kindred spirits here. I am also struggling to forgive them for controlling what I was "allowed" to bring. My niece "rolls her eyes" whenever I bring up anything about food shortages, prepping or "end times." They totally deny any need to prep for anything.
If you are so inclined, would you please pray that my depression would be lessened. That, and pain are making life unpleasant. VERY unpleasant.
Hugs. Definitely sending prayers.Hello everyone.
Very tired the majority of the time these days. Move to my niece 's house is not turned out as I thought it would. Not only did they force me to leave behind about 1/3rd of my preps, but are actively opposing me replacing these. Feel very isolated and alone in terms of having kindred spirits here. I am also struggling to forgive them for controlling what I was "allowed" to bring. My niece "rolls her eyes" whenever I bring up anything about food shortages, prepping or "end times." They totally deny any need to prep for anything.
If you are so inclined, would you please pray that my depression would be lessened. That, and pain are making life unpleasant. VERY unpleasant.
JADAM is a natural farming/gardening method where the fertilizers and insecticides are mixed by you, according to the recipes developed. It saves a lot of money. With the cost of fertilizers going up and getting more difficult to locate I've started using this method. Last year was my first year and although I can't say it was strictly because of this, I will say that my harvest increased by more than 30%. It was my best year ever! I'm going to do exactly the same thing and hope I get the same results this year. Search JADAM on YouTube but if you like what you see I highly recommend buying the book. It's on Amazon.... explain please.
I've slowly been working on my house too, right now I'm working on the area where my recumbent bike is in the living room, I've been trying to clean out that corner for the longest time. I need to get on that bike every day.Sigh, the decluttering has begun. The house is beginning to look like a hoarder's house. All useful stuff, I have just run out of places to put it. Time to go through everything and decide what needs to stay and what needs to go. Did a bunch of clothes today. Still a ton more to go on those. Should never have to buy clothes again for the rest of my life!
Whole house project will probably take several months, but it has started. I can only do a little bit per day.