Doing a little weeding and hoping to get the tomato’s stakes or supported. Most things are settling in and we’re starting to see new growth. We had a day at 90 but now we’re into the mid 60’s again and looking at a few more days of rain. It’s holding on a bit longer this year!
Digging holes for the posts for the chicken run today. The shape is a little odd but it will hook it into the existing fence line and be fewer posts to have to dig. 2.5 feet deep for 7 foot long posts. (8ft cut down). Found an atypical from Oregon State U. Saying if you wrap the post bottoms it can nearly double their lifespan…we’ll see! I read five different ways of doing it before settling on one. They said 2 mil plastic; I went with Saran Wrap to avoid anything near the chickens (paranoid about chemical leaching into soil and in turn the compost and chickens…my job exposes me to enough as it is.) and wrapped the snot out of the bottom 2.5 feet. Hopefully getting concrete in on the posts tomorrow. Girls are going out next week, just in time for the heat. Summer looks like it’s finally here after Monday.
I finally picked up handles for the windows! Easy open and close instead of a pair of pliers.
My girlfriend wrapped up the edging, so we’ll get the rest of the berry plants in soon. Grapes tomorrow, and greens bed is getting seeded. She is doing a nice job with the landscaping too in front of the house. Lupine’s, Black Eyes Susan’s, herbs and some other flowers as well.
Tomato’s are doing the best. Squash are ok but either all the rain or nutrient deficiency or some sort is yellowing some leaf edges. Strawberry plants are in (8 or so from our smaller garden patch). Forgot to grab more that’s to build tomater trellis’. Beans and corn are up too! Doing the three sisters in back by the squash, you can see the rows.
Pics later.
All the best.
Digging holes for the posts for the chicken run today. The shape is a little odd but it will hook it into the existing fence line and be fewer posts to have to dig. 2.5 feet deep for 7 foot long posts. (8ft cut down). Found an atypical from Oregon State U. Saying if you wrap the post bottoms it can nearly double their lifespan…we’ll see! I read five different ways of doing it before settling on one. They said 2 mil plastic; I went with Saran Wrap to avoid anything near the chickens (paranoid about chemical leaching into soil and in turn the compost and chickens…my job exposes me to enough as it is.) and wrapped the snot out of the bottom 2.5 feet. Hopefully getting concrete in on the posts tomorrow. Girls are going out next week, just in time for the heat. Summer looks like it’s finally here after Monday.
I finally picked up handles for the windows! Easy open and close instead of a pair of pliers.
My girlfriend wrapped up the edging, so we’ll get the rest of the berry plants in soon. Grapes tomorrow, and greens bed is getting seeded. She is doing a nice job with the landscaping too in front of the house. Lupine’s, Black Eyes Susan’s, herbs and some other flowers as well.
Tomato’s are doing the best. Squash are ok but either all the rain or nutrient deficiency or some sort is yellowing some leaf edges. Strawberry plants are in (8 or so from our smaller garden patch). Forgot to grab more that’s to build tomater trellis’. Beans and corn are up too! Doing the three sisters in back by the squash, you can see the rows.
Pics later.
All the best.
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I let DD1 decide we should get a mint plant a few years ago. Dang thing has every intention of taking over the world.
