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aldersprigThis was a busy long weekend for me and T!
Thursday, Mother-Woman and Father-Man (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alderfather) came down with the chainsaw and the rototiller and the truck (Yay parents with machinery!) We dug some garden space out of our yard - two long rows by the side of the garage, one 18"x25' and the other 4'x25', about 2' apart. The narrow one is going to be squash and onions, while the wide one will be three 8x4 raised beds housing... almost everything else.
We also put in a long trench in the back against the hedgerow for asparagus (YAY! Asparagus! Finally!), which was... fun. Till, dig out the dirt, till in the trench, repeat. Lots of work, but rewarding! Then Mom & Dad & the truck took us to Tractor Supply Company so we could get our awesome cart!!
Friday, we drove to Syracuse where I got zapped with lasers, then spent an hour at Lowe's on the way home. Peat, manure, sun hat (Yay sun hat)...
I really need to start taking pictures, don't I?
Saturday we put in all the spear roots. Asparagus is a weird plant to grow, in that you get these little octopus roots, and bury them just-a-bit, then, as the plants come up, bury them more and more... and then you don't get to eat the plants for three years! But after that, you have plants for years! article here
We dug the trench for the spears about 2x as long as it needed to be, so we planted carrot seeds in the front of the rest of it. When the field behind us plants corn, as we hope they will again, we'll plant a row of corn there, too (Corn is wind-pollinated; the more corn, the better).
Then it started raining. The onions will have to wait until tomorrow.
The Giraffe Call is still going strong! We are just $5 from the first donation-incentive level!!
Thursday, Mother-Woman and Father-Man (
alderfather) came down with the chainsaw and the rototiller and the truck (Yay parents with machinery!) We dug some garden space out of our yard - two long rows by the side of the garage, one 18"x25' and the other 4'x25', about 2' apart. The narrow one is going to be squash and onions, while the wide one will be three 8x4 raised beds housing... almost everything else. We also put in a long trench in the back against the hedgerow for asparagus (YAY! Asparagus! Finally!), which was... fun. Till, dig out the dirt, till in the trench, repeat. Lots of work, but rewarding! Then Mom & Dad & the truck took us to Tractor Supply Company so we could get our awesome cart!!
Friday, we drove to Syracuse where I got zapped with lasers, then spent an hour at Lowe's on the way home. Peat, manure, sun hat (Yay sun hat)...
I really need to start taking pictures, don't I?
Saturday we put in all the spear roots. Asparagus is a weird plant to grow, in that you get these little octopus roots, and bury them just-a-bit, then, as the plants come up, bury them more and more... and then you don't get to eat the plants for three years! But after that, you have plants for years! article here
We dug the trench for the spears about 2x as long as it needed to be, so we planted carrot seeds in the front of the rest of it. When the field behind us plants corn, as we hope they will again, we'll plant a row of corn there, too (Corn is wind-pollinated; the more corn, the better).
Then it started raining. The onions will have to wait until tomorrow.
The Giraffe Call is still going strong! We are just $5 from the first donation-incentive level!!
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Date: 2012-04-17 03:21 pm (UTC)If it was corn last year, good odds it won't be corn again this year, sorry. Rotational cropping and all; farmers rarely plant corn back-to-back, especially around here (rare, but not impossible). Might be soybeans next. Either way should get planted soon, we've started planting corn and potatoes on our farm this week!
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Date: 2012-04-17 03:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-18 04:30 am (UTC)Yay sunhat. I love the "Sunday Afternoons" brand, the version with the fabric down the neck. I thought it would be hot, but it isn't. http://www.sundayafternoons.com/index.php
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Date: 2012-04-18 12:38 pm (UTC)I thought about the fabric-down-the-neck but went for something more like this http://www.sundayafternoons.com/store/womens-milan-hat.html
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Date: 2012-04-17 04:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-17 04:44 pm (UTC)