Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

[jvls1942]

I quit hunting a few years ago.
It would be hard to prove baiting with apples under an apple tree.
Oh wait, it is spring, isn't it ? lol
I replaced my roof a long time ago.
I used steel ribbed roofing. the only regret I have is that I didn't do it with steel the first time.. all of my buildings have the steel roofs now.
it quit raining here, now. after I eat I think I might go prune that one grape vine.

 

[jvls1942]

I pruned two grape vines. took off seven extra shoots. I stuck the shoots into dirt to see if they will root. If they don't, there is nothing lost.
I don't know what to do today.
pick a project and go with it , I guess.
first my coffee.

eta,
I have the charger on the lawn mower, it hiccuped yesterday. I don't want to get stranded across the yard with it.
I checked the mini green houses. the elderberries look promising, so do the plums,
the first batch of apples have new leaves, so that is good. the latest batch of apples, nothing yet. but apples do take extra time.
that's my life up to this minute

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Not much going on here either. Need to go pick radishes, and see if there's any asparagus. Maybe poke around in the garden boxes. See if the rain germinated anything.

 

[jvls1942]

I guess it is just you and me.
funny, that is exactly what my oldest sister wrote to me today.
we have a site with my three sisters, my brother an me. I guess everybody is too busy or not interested enough to write.
all i did today was to go look at the new shoots coming up in the old grape arbor area. it won't be long before i can start tying them to the posts. I mowed the grass around them.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Sorry Jim. If you abandon ship/garden thread I will understand.

My days aren't very exciting either. I prefer that these days. I got a few radishes and enough asparagus to go with our leftover spaghetti. Nothing much growing. Lettuce didn't germinate very well. I think it's the constant hot cold weather.

Stuff sure is growing slow this year. Our hay is finally getting tall enough to cut, but waiting on a few days of guaranteed dry weather is hard when the weather people predict partly sunny, and a chance of shower nearly every day. We need enough for 2 old donkeys, and 6 old goats. Us old goats are getting too old for all the baling of hay.

Like to get my sweet corn planter soon. Maybe this coming weekend.

 

[jvls1942]

I will stick with you.
it would be nice if a few others would chime in .
your corn should do OK. it is not too late for sweet corn.
we gave up on having a garden.
no tractor. If it did come, it would take two weeks of ground preparation with all the weeds to get rid of.
I am going to therapy today.
going to see about this pinched nerve in my neck. Insurance won't pay for a massage therapy. they will pay for chiropractic though.
but all I need is a good massage.
we used to milk goats when the kids were little. we ate a couple too
ever since then I can't stand to drink cows milk.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

My tastes changed last year, and I found oat milk which is delicious, so we don't do cow's milk anymore. Husband's cholesterol dropped 50 points. I'm giving credit to the oat milk. Never had the nerve to try goats milk.

I've done chiropractor and massage and massage works better in my opinion. Release the muscles than the bones can align on their own. Chiropractors just keep pushing stuff back and hope it eventually sticks. It is better than nothing. I never found therapy helpful for the neck, but it does depend on where you go. Hopefully something helps you Jim.

Corn is an 80 day corn so we should be okay unless this is the one year we get an early frost. I do have that kind of luck, so we will see.

Just gonna putz around the house today. Sick of these allergies. Makes me miserable.

 

[jvls1942]

I went to Aspiris for my neck therapy.
the guy tested me and said I do not have a pinched nerve. I have very tight muscles. He had me do some stretching exercises. Then I have to do them at home twice a day. So far the exercises did not aggravate my neck pain. I have very poor range of motion.
yesterday Annie mowed around the house. when she passed the mower for me to park in the shed, she noticed a piece of wire sticking out of the rear tire. I said pull it out
She did and the air started blowing
So today we will go to FF and get some plugs. I have flat or worn out tires on a few pieces of lawn equipment. One of these days I will dedicate a day to tire repair.
I am thinking of getting a cordless hand held grass trimmer. I don't want to trim around the grapes with a string trimmer. One little slip and the grape is gone.
I wanted to mulch around the grapes. One of the directions on youtube said , do not mulch grapes.
another one told how to mulch grapes.
what do I do ?? lolol

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I think you can mulch as long as you aren't tight to the base so it doesn't rot, or attract rodents. We have used those rubber tree discs with decent results. Learned not to use them around the satellite pole. Now it heaves every spring, and needs to be concreted again.

I think there are also inner tubes for lawn tires. Hopefully it's an easy fix.

I gotta stretch my neck daily or else it gets real tight and I get headaches. Hopefully stretching helps you Jim.

My husband weed wacks the heck out of stuff. It's his way of weeding.

 

[jvls1942]

too soon to tell if the stretching helps. but last night I had no pain all night and I could sleep on my left side , which I could not do before.
I will be going to therapy twice a week for eight weeks.
I have often put tubes in small tires. usually when the tubeless doesn't seal or the tire is so checked it won't hold air.
this one is tubeless and the bead holds, so all I have to do is plug it