crnerblitz
February 23rd, 2008, 08:23 PM
My Dad who lives with my wife, five kids and me came in from outside this morning and interrupted my morning coffee. He claimed all the asparagus shoots were belonging to Him. I said beg your pardon, but what shoots? Those plants are dormant. Wrong! We went outside and he showed me where 3 of the 10 crowns we planted last spring were pushing up nice pencil sized shoots. Well I just happened to have bought 10 more 2yr old crowns on Friday along with some 1gallon black berry bushes.
My 3 youngest boys (9, 6, and 4) spent the morning lugging compost to the back market garden while my Dad and I planted the 11 (bonus) new crowns. I went and checked on the 4 rows of Oregon sugar podded peas I have in the ground and found many of them poking out their heads. Yippee! My 15 square feet of Longstanding Spinach is doing nicely. Too nice, I seeded it way to thick and thinning it will be a major task.
Its far too early for the lettuce, chard, beets, carrots and Pak Choy to be up but I am watching it closely.
My oldest boy (whom turns 12 in 9 days) and I stuck about another 200 onions in a prepped bed while my Dad rode lead over the rest of my young crew hauling compost to the beds where my Maters and Peppers will be in the market garden.
Once my oldest and I finished that job it was off to the new berry patch on the other side of the yard. I planted 4 Navaho thornless blackberries to go with the sole surviving Apache from the floods of last year. We planted them right in the old prepared holes of the previous year and then put up a fence for them to grow up and give support. I will probably buy another 6 Navaho's to make another row of berries. Yum!
By this time it was lunchtime so we all called it a day. Except my wife had worked the night before at the hospital and was sleeping. She got up around 4:00pm and I offered to help her put in her fruit trees. Thursday we had planted 2 plum trees, 2 peach trees and a pear tree. That left us just 4 apple tree's and a 4th pecan tree to round out the 3 pecan trees we put in last year. My dad also snuck a turkey fig tree onto the property when I wasn't looking.:D
All in all it was a very productive day. In five years or so I may even be able to partake in some of the sweat of my brow. I'll sleep goot tonight!
Kevin
My 3 youngest boys (9, 6, and 4) spent the morning lugging compost to the back market garden while my Dad and I planted the 11 (bonus) new crowns. I went and checked on the 4 rows of Oregon sugar podded peas I have in the ground and found many of them poking out their heads. Yippee! My 15 square feet of Longstanding Spinach is doing nicely. Too nice, I seeded it way to thick and thinning it will be a major task.
Its far too early for the lettuce, chard, beets, carrots and Pak Choy to be up but I am watching it closely.
My oldest boy (whom turns 12 in 9 days) and I stuck about another 200 onions in a prepped bed while my Dad rode lead over the rest of my young crew hauling compost to the beds where my Maters and Peppers will be in the market garden.
Once my oldest and I finished that job it was off to the new berry patch on the other side of the yard. I planted 4 Navaho thornless blackberries to go with the sole surviving Apache from the floods of last year. We planted them right in the old prepared holes of the previous year and then put up a fence for them to grow up and give support. I will probably buy another 6 Navaho's to make another row of berries. Yum!
By this time it was lunchtime so we all called it a day. Except my wife had worked the night before at the hospital and was sleeping. She got up around 4:00pm and I offered to help her put in her fruit trees. Thursday we had planted 2 plum trees, 2 peach trees and a pear tree. That left us just 4 apple tree's and a 4th pecan tree to round out the 3 pecan trees we put in last year. My dad also snuck a turkey fig tree onto the property when I wasn't looking.:D
All in all it was a very productive day. In five years or so I may even be able to partake in some of the sweat of my brow. I'll sleep goot tonight!
Kevin