Fixing the fence

We had a dust devil come through our little acre yesterday. I was out and about, but the after math is amazing. A plastic tub that weights about 5 pounds or so was tossed about 30 feet into my fence and bowed the fence over so today I get to work on that. It also riped the covers off the hoop houses. I was
able to fix two of them but it looks like I will have to build one of them all over. Thats not all bad it is 3 years old now so I suppose it is time to rebuild it. I built it to only last one year.
We harvested and ate and froze some of our first asparagus, it was good and tender we are looking forward to more this year.
It is looking like Monday or Tuesday we will have lettuce form under the cold fraim.So far the grapes are doing good they made it through the high winds.
I hope to have the computer fixed so I can up load videos soon, so be looking for more videos.
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Grapes

The grapes got planted to day. I am excited to see how they do. Kellie and I planted two-concord grapes one sweet red and one Thompson seed less.
The snow pees are starting to come up I hope that they make it. Looks like in about three weeks we can start the summer crops,
I may start planting the beans the first week of May I’ll have to see what the weather is going to be like. We could still get another round of snow, I could go for a light snow but I think I’m done with the 12 to 24 inches.
Hope your garden is doing good.
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The storm

We got snow rain mixed for the last two days than this afternoon in came the wind. After it was all over we ended up with 21/2 in of water, that sure will help out.
I did get everything in the ground that needed to get in before the moisture came that was nice so I'm hopping that the cold did not kill anything. Right now all we have is one big mud puddle that more resembles slime than anything else. Were ever I haven't amended the soil it is all mucky. I do need to get more organic mater in the ground. I am also hopping that the alfalfa I planted last fall will be coming up in the next few weeks as long as the rabbits don't get to it. I planted it for the green manure and for the organic mater that it will put in to the ground, also the root system of alfalfa will loosen the soil up and hopefully brake up the hard pan. I am thinking of letting it go to seed for next year maybe it will get nice and thick that would be nice.
That's about it for to day I hope that everyone is warm.
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Good buy old Friend

I lost a friend yesterday yes my laptop died, it looks like there is nothing left to do but to have it recycled. It has been a true and faithful friend for the past 6 or 7 years now. Those of you who know computers know that that thing should have been dead a while a go. A 6 year computer is so out dated and slow that is was any wonder that it could keep up. So now I am on the desk top un-tell I have enough put away to get a laptop. I don't think I will get a top of the line, however, now for $500.00 I can get one 5x's better than my old one.
So on to the garden, I have decided to pull up the black weed barrier and put down grass. I am hoping that that will help to drain out the leach field and help keep the weeds down a bit more.
I got my hands on some New York Soft Neck garlic the other day and planted it yesterday I think that will be fun.
The asparagus is coming up (I'll see if I can get a photo of them up soon.) there nice and thick with good color that is so neat.
I finally to my soil sample back two days ago, (I will try to get a scan of it and post it for you.)
Our soil is high in soluble salts and low in iron and organic matter and high in alkaline.
A lot to work with and try to fix for now my plan of a tack is to use a lot of plant based compost and no manure and add some iron. By adding plant based compost it should lower some of the salts just by volume. Plant based compost by nature is low to no salts and for me that is very good. That should also take care of my organic mater problem. If I add some peat moss which is plant based compost. That should lower the alkaline, peat moss is high in acid. So the plan of action is plant based compost, peat moss and some iron I'll keep you posted on how it all turns out.
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The Garden

Today I thought I would put up a movie of the garden.
This is the very dry clay that I get to try and grow vegetables.
I hope you enjoy.


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Onions are coming

Ok the last few days I have transplanted tomatoes in to bigger pots. I have set up another grow light, put up the trellis for the grapes and put a hoop house up. Oh I also transplanted some Hyssop we should have about 20 or more Hyssop for the herb garden.
I have been out for 3 days now I got 5 teeth pulled so I am just now starting to get back in the swing of things.
I hope to get the grapes in next week, I have been getting them hardened off so they should be ready. The blueberries are still alive but fighting. We got the raspberries in then we had strong winds so I don’t know how they will hold up.
Onions have started to come up, and the garlic is looking good even though the birds and rabbits got to them. Speaking of rabbits they have eaten most of my Irises, I hope that it is early enough in the year that they will come back. I hope to have some photos for you next time.
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