It’s hard to believe that these green stripes have been evading me. They are scraps from several years ago and I don’t even remember the original intention – hopefully this was it. However, I opened a small drawer to put something in and these begged to come out. They are now a new quilt top just waiting to be quilted. It measures 41 x 48. I really don’t know what is about these greens as green has never been my favorite color, but I do like it for quilts.
I also worked at moving a box in the hoop house. We have to move it over about 18″. So I’ve been clearing where the new side of the box is to be – digging the dirt from the left side, tossing it onto the right side. The post on the right side will eventually be in the middle. I still have a couple weeks before planting the tomatoes so I’m okay.
And here is the point from where Lacey enjoys watching the most. No one can come or go without her watchful eye. However, usually she must be in the pasture with the animals. (The alpacas were allowed out to eat weeds today, so she was able to watch from here.)
The tomatoes now have larger pots, most of which they can stay in for two months. By then we should be past any chance of freezing. There are more tomatoes to pot up plus some peppers, but I need to find more gallon pots before that can happen.
This afternoon, I took the time to finish this quilt as it is due the end of the month. There were a couple suggestions that I stay with black on the borders and bindings which I did and like. I also like how the variegated thread brings out the flight pattern.
Mother loved flowers and this print is remnants from the last housecoat I remember her having. I decided this would be a great quilt for me to keep, since it has memories, so I bound it completely by machine as I intend to use it and throw it in the washer and dryer.
I gave the bees another box today and was a bit careless – not a good thing around bees. For that mistake, one of the young ladies nailed me right under the chin. Currently, the bees are very plentiful and I think if I had not given them another box, they might have been getting ready to swarm. I really don’t want to lose them. And next week, I’ll be a bit more cautious.
We planted a few more potatoes from the box that was all roots and pulled out the raspberries that were growing in the aisle. Hopefully Sunday we will get the rest of the potatoes and garlic in the ground.
Some days I don’t feel like much has been achieved because a some of several things were done. To day we planted 85 daffodils here beside the grapes because I didn’t want to go to all the trouble of digging up grass where I wanted them and they are getting in so late. But I didn’t want to lose them. They will be done blooming before the grapes need the room, so they won’t interfere with each other. Maybe in the fall, I can “get a better start” or I may just like some color where they are. (the dark area). In another place we put the last 15 tulips. The ones planted at the right time are now coming up.
We picked up some starting soil and other items at the wholesale house.
I put a quilt on the frame to quilt. And I started the binding on another quilt. Then I cast on for another pair of socks, – a number of starts today, but now I need finishes.
Do you see those small white pieces along the front of the bags and garbage cans? Those are the iris popping out of the ground. And inside the house two potatoes that we missed are through the ground.
We totally cleaned this side and the back today, then put in two types of kale, Simpson black seeded lettuce, endive, and escarole
In this photo, the clear areas are where there was cardboard. Any where we didn’t put it, we have all this spreading low ground cover for which we don’t have a name.
These are some of the vegetables that went in too late last fall to get good growth, but we’re eating them now. I do a good job of starting early, but somehow peter out mid-summer.
These potatoes really, REALLY want to be in the ground, so we planted them along the west (back) side of the greenhouse. (we just didn’t have a cool enough place to store them all winter.) It will be an early crop which will delight us. We will plant others outside for a later crop which hopefully will do better at lasting through the winter.
This is a look at the entire hoop house with still lots of work to be done, but for most of it, we are still a month away.
We laid this blanket over the new seedlings as it is supposed to make the difference of a zone in temperature. We’re trying it.
So the day went like this: 1. filled the freezer with another box of bananas, then worked in the greenhouse weeded one side and the back, planted, fertilized, put down slug bait, watered, and then laid the blanket over the greens. After supper, we bagged those bananas. (the rest should be ready to freeze and dehydrate tomorrow. My Fitbit registered over 10,000 steps and I am ready for bed.
