Saturday, June 23, 2012

June 17 - 25, 2012

Temperature Range:
  • lows: 60 - 70° F
  • highs: 83 - 94° F
Rainfall: 0.05"

Planted:
  • amaranth
  • black oil sunflowers
  • sweet potato slips
Harvested:
  • potatoes
  • peaches
  • blueberries
  • yellow onions
  • multiplier onions
Egg Counts:
  • Sun. 7
  • Mon 6
  • Tues 6
  • Wed 6
  • Thurs 9
  • Fri 6
  • Sat 6
  • Week's Total: 46
Observed & Accomplished:
Sunday
  • day of rest
Monday
  • picked blueberries
  • harvested onions
  • harvested more potatoes
Tuesday
  • finished harvesting potatoes
  • weeded
  • 1st cukes will be ready to harvest soon
  • I think Mrs. Mean might be laying her eggs in the Broody's nest!
Wednesday
  • latest garden post on my homestead blog
  • weeded
  • planted amaranth in old potato beds
  • planted BOSS with cucumbers
  • applied 4 cups dolomitic limestone and 3 cups bone meal to each bed
  • picked about a gallon of blueberries
  • 1st day this summer we broke 90°
  • light rain, welcome after planting those seeds
Thursday
  • weeded front herb bed; near impossible because of all the wire grass growing there
Friday
  • froze blueberries
Saturday
  • finished planting sweet potatoes
  • applied dolomitic limestone to both sweet potato beds
  • weeded tomato aisles
  • noted some beds are muddy, some beds are dry as a bone
  • picked blueberries (almost 2 gallons)
  • other hens keep laying in the broody's nest. She has 5 or 6 eggs now; only supposed to have 3
  • late afternoon thunder & a sprinkle

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