On Monday I got the laundry started, kitchen cleaned up, and started sorting out seedlings to go to the cold frame.
I had to open the 2nd cold frame. We’d not used this one because the chipmunks tunneling under the plastic have made it so uneven. I had to use a lot of sticks and stones to level the trays so they would hold water evenly.
I made about 18 trips in and out and was sure missing my general helper! Next year we’ll have to repair the bottom, but I think we said that last year…
I got them all outside by 11AM.
The first goal had been to empty the office window so I could take down the infrastructure for window washing on the 29th.
There were a lot of plants that were ready to go outside from the porch. I soon emptied all these shelves.
These were next. Once I get the shelving taken down, I can set up the dehydrators and get them running in the afternoons.
The roundtop was full of the things I’d started on Saturday and tender things like tomatoes and peppers and melons.
The overflow filled 2½ lights in this window. The large stuff on the left are some plants I’m keeping for a friend until she can plant.
By the time I got all this done, I was wiped out. I rested for a few hours and then finished the laundry and helped my brother make stir-fry for supper.
The contractor showed up mid afternoon and got the last collar ties up and finished the inside wall. He needs to rehang the drying rack in this area and make supports for storing the fencing rails over the wood.
On Tuesday my general help will come for an extra day. We will go to check out wood chips at a nearby wood mill and then haul the pea fences to the garden. My helper friend should be here by then and he and I will be making amendment. My general helper will water all the seedlings in the cold frames and in the house.
When my helper friend leaves at 11, hopefully we will have finished the amendment making and my general helper the watering and she and I can start laying out the garden and maybe get some fences up.
She leaves at noon so I ought to be about wiped out by then.