Off work yesterday @6:30 and just said, wow....next 36 hrs are MINE!! It wasn't raining as weatherman had predicted. Shower last night somewhere after midnight, nothing big. Up to sunsine at 6AM -- headed out to fix the fence DS did not get done yesterday. He heard tractor and came out, did the fix!
I tilled. I planted !!!!! YES, I have finally got the garden started.
Put the plants from front porch to garden -- 15 tomato, 9 pepper and 5 eggplant. It's a start! Had bought since weather never let me get mine started....will actually start a couple more tomato that I want and they will just be later than these. Also a couple different eggplant -- these are the black beauty which I generally raise anyway. I hoed up 2 rows for bush string beans and planted, as well as 5 hills of zuke and 5 of yellow squash. By that time, sprinkles were beginning. It was 2:30 and I was, quite honestly, ready for a break. With the rains coming, I decided to go ahead and do my feeding then in for shower & cook something. It is raining but just sprinkly stuff.
I sure feel some accomplishment!!!
I will be able to add other seeds sometime during the week...have them here. That storm front & another front sitting on us and will determine how much time I will have. But, major portion is done! The prep! And I will have another day off on Sunday. Woohoo! Should be able to get the cardboard and mulching done that day. Will bring the cb home this week from my jobs.
This is such a relief. Since I hope to be close to FT at home next year, my goal was to MAKE myself do as if I were -- as to more production and self support from farm. Obviously the weather being poor and garden late, I was stressing. Like how will I eat this year and thru the winter?? (OK I am ok but it is where I had to put my mindset to know I could quit work -- my practice run, if you will).
I was not able to do a cold crop this Spring but, can do that in Fall. Also will begin my crops for the animals in next 2 wks, as weather permits. Since there is only "self" to rely upon my goal is to show ME just how much I am able to do.
Feeling ok today, LOL. Let's see if we get bad weather to screw it up. Farming & aging is NOT for the everyone.
And DS found something cool in the backyard just now, part of a stone pipe. I wonder how old this is?
