Joining up with Ginny today.
April 15 -- April 21
- April 16
Sunny and dry. It got warm enough in the afternoon to consider swimming!
Jason tilled the main garden adding several square feet for a big potato patch. He then tilled the squash garden (non-running vines) and prepared my spot for sugar snap peas. Jason put up two tripods that were used last year for bean pole beans (which never grew) for the peas to climb. This is a great improvement from what we did last year, which grew lots of peas, but they got a little lost.
Dad weeded the strawberry patch and planted a few squash seeds underneath a milk jug with the bottom cut off. He's hoping it will act like a cold frame.
Dad also took the 4-Wheeler into the woods to take down his taps.
I planted 23 sugar snap peas at the aforementioned tripods.
- April 17
Sunny and dry
In the morning Jason and Stomper cleaned smelts so they didn't do much in the garden.
Dad put up a fence at the end of the purposed blueberry expansion for some arctic kiwi's. He picked up a male and female bush(ling) ((what do you call a bush that is only three spindly sticks?)) for a dollar each. He planted them about 8 feet apart and stuck them through the holes of the fence. I believe he will later go back and string them up.
Dad and Katrina washed the sap buckets and other supplies, then put them away for next year.
Jason washed out the small freezer we received from cleaning out a friends apartment property.
- April 18
49 degrees at 9:00 / 59 degrees at 2:00 Sunny and dry
Jason spent most of the morning fidddling with the truck trying to get it inspected. By the grace of God it passed another year. We are hoping to get as many years out of it as we can as it is the only truck we have between the two families.
While Jason was out he bought 3lbs of Kennebec Potatoes and 1lb of Red.
He tilled the garden a second time, but didn't have enough time to plant the 'tatoes.
- April 19
36 degrees at 7:30. Light frost in the morning. Another sunny and dry day.
Dad bought fertilizer and soil test kits.
- April 20
47 degrees at 8:20. Sunny and dry
The pear trees and blueberry bushes are coming along nicely. I am hoping and praying we don't have a repeat of two years ago when the pear trees had flowered out and then we had a hard frost and killed the flowers and all our pears.
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This warm dry weather has us a little cautious about planting. I think we keep waiting for it to snow. However, Jason's Grandfather, who has been planting since before dirt, has most his garden in so I think our reluctance is unnecessary.
Early next week Jason hopes to plant the potatoes.
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| Pear Tree This Week |
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| Kiwi Fence |
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