the little wild kingdom

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a nice chunk of garden got weeded and planted yesterday and even if it was hot out there was a breeze. so much of a breeze i didn't get the bean pods put out in that garden that i wanted to bury so the worms could take care of them. they'll go out eventually in some garden but i'm not sure what i'm doing today. rains this morning so i may not be in the mood to fight the mud - i have a lot of other things i can get done...

 

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another garden ready to be leveled and planted. i didn't push yesterday so hard, but at least i did get that done plus watering everything. a lot of sprouts coming up. beanie babies! *bounce bounce*

 

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the last part of the fenced gardens to get weeded and planted with beans. it will go faster than the others as it is the lightest soil garden i have in there and i've already partially weeded it, but we'll see how it goes.

if all works out i get it planted this weekend and can mow on Monday. it hasn't rained much and i've been able to squeeze a few extra days in between having to mow. it sure is nice though that i don't mow so much as before.

 

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went out fairly early for me and got to weeding. most of the garden was ok except a few thistles i needed to dig out and around to make sure i got all their roots. no fun those, but the rest was ok. i still the back corner to finish up where all the tulips are at - a few hours at most.

i'd not had breakfast but Mom decided to cook this morning so i had a brunch of mac-n-cheese and bacon with sloppy joes on top of it.

sprawled out here and fell asleep in a few moments and crashed out for a few hours. i guess it is a tough life if you don't weaken...

now i gotta get back out there and finish what i started and then water any newly planted beans to make sure they can sprout. water myself too on the way out - us old steam engines need watering too - good thing i don't burn coal.

 

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all parts weeded, leveled and ready for planting. i do a little light cultivating of the rows before planting so that i can get the seeds down far enough that they won't pop back out when watering. while this is still a pretty good garden with the soil quality better than most of the others it is still rather too firm to just dibble seeds in. i tried that in various gardens in the past and the bean plants grew very slow and struggled when it got too hot.

so tomorrow should be the end of bean seed planting inside the fence and i can move on to tasks outside the fence (weeding and planting one big garden along a pathway and then getting the north garden weeded and maybe planted too with beans. the deer have been coming through at times so i think that might be a lost cause but never know how it goes until i try. and then the bunnies are running around too...