Then with the cold and difficult winter those things that needed doing did not get done. So with the warmer air (we had a threat of frost last week) I have again looked around and made plans to “accomplish” certain things this summer. This is in addition to getting my garden up and growing.
So just in case you think we sit around and do nothing all day long except enjoy one another’s company I thought I would share with you what we have and will be up to.
To make matters worse after the spring snow thaw we had a pile of brush that had been snowed covered. When the grass starts to grow here it takes a very short while until it begins to eat whatever is on the ground. And usually the person on the mower just mows around it….
There was some wood in the brush pile that had “fireplace” size branches so Hubby came out for a few minutes to cut them up before he was called back to the house to help his dad. Needless to say, that made it easy for me to just keep feeding the fire.
And then there was the rose bushes by the barn that needed to be cut back. And since I had a fire already going it seemed wise to just get the mess cut back and the thorny canes put into the fire.
While I was working on burning branches and tearing down more of the crib Daughter#2 was working on the rhubarb patch. It still looks pitiful but not as bad as last year. Some of the new plants took root. She got a lot done yesterday and then finished it up today. Go here for those pictures. As you can see she did a fabulous job! She gets and extra dessert tonight.
This morning I went out and re-lit my burn pile, scooping in the twiggy stuff that had fallen out of the pit…added in more crib wood and the wandered off to side dress the tomatoes with compost. As I began to do this, I began to think that some of these tomatoes are about ready for the cages to be put on them. I had such success last year with compost that I wanted to put down the compost but that meant that I had to pound pickets. You have to put down posts here in order to hold the tomato cages in place or on a windy day they will end up ripping out your tomatoes and taking them to the next county. Now this is not an easy job. The pounder itself probably weighs 20 lbs. I only managed to get 20 plants mulched, staked and caged out of about 50 but it is a good start!! A major accomplishment for the day considering that I was tired from not sleeping well last night.