May 20, 2006
That's pretty much the story. It was a beautiful day outside.. Low 70's, slight breeze, few clouds.. Nice..
I tilled it about 2 weeks ago, we've had a lot of rain since then.
The house in the center of the picture is for sale. If you hurry now, you can get it for $999,999.00
Till it in the other direction.
After I go back and forth I finish the outside with the round and round motion.
Now I have 4 inches of fluff, I need it squished down a bit, so let me try this...
Not too packed.. Last year I was planting into cement.. That was too much..
All packed.. time for some real work..
I guessed at a north-south alignment. Then moved 8 feet west so I could get out of Kim's way. She was planting a dozen Asparagus plants near that center gizmo. Asparagus stick around for years, so I want them in toward the center where I won't be able to till through anyhow.
That center sprinkler head gizmo is not working as expected. too big of a hole, not enough pressure out there maybe. I'll run this little one for a couple weeks until everything comes up.
The white things are shower rings. 99c a dozen. I was thinking of putting one on every end of the row, plus about every 5th plant. I'd need another 10 dozen rings to do that.
I'll pick up the rings after the plants are up. The idea was... If I need to weed, just stay back from the rings and I'll be fine.
It's windy out... but.. let it run, it'll soak things up when the wind calms down.
I left room for my 10 more tomato plants on the east side.. (where the 2 white pipes are at). I planted 2 kinds of sweet corn, cucumbers, zuchini, grean beans, peas, a lot of tomatos (seeds, and plants), Asparagus, hot peppers, onions. We'll see.. we got some stuff out last year. This year, I have less 'other things' to keep me from weeding the thing. I left room to get the tiller down the rows, and I didn't start by planting the whole thing to grass. I'm not going to sprinkle it after the corn is about knee high (flood after that), and I'll toss on some fertilizer this year. All of that hopefully will lead to something good.