Afternoon High: 87F
Tonight's projected low: 65F
Wind: E at 6 mph
Humidity: 94%
Overall; So far, it's been cloudy, misty and raining all morning. Let's see it raining today and every day this week!
1. As you might imagine, M's injury (a broken foot from a fall in a very dark parking lot at work) has really slowed us both down considerably. Still, and perhaps miraculously, we have made progress on a number of fronts.
2. Mr. Garden's Pattypan eyes, Zucchini nose and mustache, and Eggplant mouth signal a new phase in Spring/Summer harvests!
3. After the Deer Attack a few weeks back, and the ever-slower pace of bentwood fence building, we decided to use welded wire fencing. 100' was plenty, costing about $130.00, and the posts already laid in worked perfectly. No more bunnies and deer munching on our Polebeans, Sweet Potatoes and Beets! The first shot below shows the Eastern side of the fence stretching away from the Sugar Maple in the back yard. The second shows the South side of the fence, already finished in bentwood. We still plan on constructing one bentwood wood gate for the Eastern side.
4. M discovered a spray mixture that seems to have detered the bugs who were formerly chewing big holes in our Collards and Eggplants: Cayene Pepper, Dish Soap, Garlic and Onion.
5. We harvested the remaining Garlic, and let it dry (or "cure") on our the back porch for two weeks. We tried to provide lots of room for air to circulate over and underneath to avoid rotting.
6. Once dry, we brought the Garlic into the kitchen, laid them out on two old towels, clipped their stalks, tied them up with string into bundles of 10, and hung them up for storage over the fireplace. We gave one bundle to my folks upstairs, and we're sending one bundle to M's folks. That leaves us 8 bundles for us.
7. We count the Garlic a success, an experiment that shows us not only that we can grow our own Garlic, but the quantity we can expect out of a 5 x 5 Bed. In the future, we'll need probably 10 Beds of this size for a year's supply.
8. While pulling up some wayward volunteer Potato stalks growing in the Cucumber Bed, I discoverd a number of wonderful Ukon Golds! What's amazing about this is that we did nothing to assist these Potatoes, just let them be.
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