Middle pasture with a little color
On Friday my helper friend arrived at 8AM and we went out and cleaned out the woodshed. We got the cold frame covers inside and put things back.
Then we got the cages out of the rafters in the woodshed. One of them was too big to store in front of the wood.
It was the biggest one, made for the other peach tree. We tried to set it up around the new peach tree, but the stakes wouldn’t hold very well. We will have to take it off again, because the tree doesn’t have the plastic trunk protector on it and it’s too early to put them on. We’ll do that in early November.
Next we got started back in the Small garden. I was picking up acorns and he finished the mulching.
We decided to leave the cabbages open. They are okay until it hits 26F. If that’s to happen before I harvest them, I have an extra tarp I can put over them. What I read said leaving them in the ground was the best way to store them until it gets too cold.
The tarps will catch all the acorns and leaves and in early December if there’s a warm day, we will pull them off and dump them over the bank. Then we use the pressure washer to get the debris off and they get hung on the clothesline to dry.
Back 40 doesn’t have much color
My brother was home early on Friday afternoon and he heard a banging noise by the garden. When he went to see what it was, a woodpecker flew away. It had been working on the bluebird’s house by the Big garden. I guess a new house is in order…
Mid afternoon the contractor arrived. He’d made a new window to replace the one broken by the tree falling last spring. He didn’t have a large enough piece of glass so he made a double pane.
On the back of the new woodshed, the area needing trim was just a little too big so he cut a trim board to fit. It will get painted.
He had to look around for all the pieces of trim we’ve saved and then clean it up. Some had been stored for 40 years.
So this is as far as he got. He’s got to buy 2 more pieces of trim before he can do much more.
Forty years ago we had a horrible grub problem and tons of Japanese beetles. I scraped up the money and did the whole yard (much smaller then) with milky spore. The Japanese beetles disappeared.
In 2019 when the construction was going on, most of the yard was torn up. Since then I’ve seen Japanese beetles and we now have lots of mole hills. So I found a good deal on more milky spore and plan to put it down after I mow the lawn on Saturday. The yard is now about ¾ of an acre. I have enough for a third of an acre, but it mostly needs to be on the grassy areas.
It’s to be a cloudy cold day on Saturday and if it doesn’t rain in the morning, I hope to get the yard mowed.