Blueberries!
The new blueberries are doing well. Actually, they look a bit yellow to me. But the soil there is pretty good so it might be a special blueberry nutrient deficiency.
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| The new blueberries have blueberries on them! |
June drop continues
I keep finding more peaches on the ground, but there are still a lot in the trees yet too. I am going to put up tree cages around these trees to protect them from the critters (raccoons) who stole them all last year!
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| It actually smells like peaches around these trees now - probably due to the fruit that falls. I am sure that will interest many critters! |
Elderberries blooming their hearts out!
Paw-paw patch tilled and planted
Finally was able to get the tractor over there to till. It has been so wet and muddy this spring that this was the first chance I had to get in there! I had to put up the fence for this garden too. I will put a gate in the upper side I think - later. I used the push-type planting tool to plant pinto beans and some of the fancy green beans that I have been harvesting for the past couple years (I really need to shell the rest of those!)
Free mulch/Wood chips!
The guys who trim the trees around the power lines stopped to trim along my driveway this weekend. I asked them if they could give me the chips from the trimming - they said yes - and if I wanted they could dump more there too! I thought that was a grand idea! Sweet! Now I won't have to be milling and chipping wood to get chips to put around all of my trees!
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| That's just one of their truckloads. |
Daikon radishes are blooming
I just thought they are kinda pretty so I took a few pics! These are volunteers that I did not remove from the front patch.
Cabbages surviving - just
Actually, not all of them look so good. I am going to have to put some Sevin on them soon.
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| These are the good looking ones |
More strawberries
Another gallon and a half (I think). I don't take pictures of all of them and I have been bad at posting these updates on time so I can't remember how many we got this picking. I think, all told, that I have picked about 6 gallons so far. Between us and mom though, only a few have made it into the freezer!
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| I am seriously thinking of making strawberry jam and strawberry wine! Maybe next year though, depending on how many I get and how much time I have. |
Mower tire issues
Well, the zero-turn mower tire finally gave way to the sidewall slash and wouldn't hold pressure any more. I (thought) was prepared with a spare wheel and a spare tire - BUT - I had purchased the wrong size! Argh! So I went to the McConnellsburg TSC and returned the wrong ones and bought a tire - no wheel though. So I had to remove the old tire from the rim and place the new one on. All with out any tire changer tools! I just used crow bar, prybar and screwdriver. I finally got the new tire on (with the help of some window cleaner spray) but then had to "re-bead" it. Well, I got the idea to try the old "light the ether - explosive fuel" trick... I sprayed some ether into the tire, threw a match at it - but no explosion! It just sat there burning. So I push on the wall of the tire a bit and BOOM! Big fireball encompasses me and singes the dickens out of my facial hair (and head hair)! It didn't hurt though - very fast flame and it was gone. Embarrassing though. I tried again, this time using my foot to push in the sidewall after it was lit - boom again - but I wasn't engulfed this time and the tire sealed up nice. I rushed to fill it with air before it cooled and things went well after that.
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| Ugh - I could smell burned hair all weekend! |
Chokecherry and choke berry clean up and mulching
Since I now had enough woodchip mulch I decided to mow around and cleanup the chokecherry, chokeberry patch. I used the weed wacker to clean them up nicely. I got the old red push mower running too. I had to take apart the carburetor and cleaning it - but it started right up after that and ran quite nicely.
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| Of course, I didn't get a picture of them after I put the mulch on! D'oh! |
Strawberry moon
Evidently, this time of year something happens and the moon is low in the sky such that it appears reddish. The native Americans called this the strawberry moon. When they saw it they knew it was time to pick the strawberries! I couldn't get a very good picture of it with my phone though.
Weed wacker - trimmer died
I was using it one minute, laid it down to do something, then the next time I picked it up it just wouldn't turn on! I took it apart and never did find out what was wrong. I figure its probably the switch. Anyway, I went ahead and order a new one. This ones newer version - the LST420 - lol - "weed" wacker - too funny!
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| The old wacker |
