- lows: 60 - 76° F
- highs: 87 - 103° F
Rainfall: 0.3"
Planted
- Barley, Burbank Hulless (Sustainable Seeds)
- pumpkins, Orange Bulldog (UGA)
- potatoes, Red Pontiac (stored)
Harvested:
- cucumbers
- multiplier onions
- yellow onions
- blueberries
- rose hips
- grapes
Preserved:
- blueberry pie filling, 7 qts
- blueberries, frozen, 4 qts
- cucumber garlic relish, 6 pts
- sweet potato puree, 2 pts from stored
Egg Counts:
- Sun. 5
- Mon. 4
- Tues. 7 + 6 (see note for Tuesday below)
- Wed. 6
- Thurs. 6
- Fri. 6
- Sat. 8
- Week's total: 48
Observed & Accomplished
Sunday
- day of rest
- harvested 1st cukes
Monday
- watered the garden
- harvested the rest of the onions
- canned blueberry pie filling
- afternoon thundershower
Tuesday
- cooler temps & lovely cool breeze this morning
- 2 cuke plants have mosaic virus. Pulled & discarded these
- planted experimental patch of hulless barley; added dolomite & bone meal
- planted pumpkins in amaranth bed
- half soaked in whey
- half not soaked
- the broody hen was off the nest after lunch. Actually she was standing over 3 eggs in another nest. In hers, were the 3 I'd given her and 6 more white ones. My suspicions about Mrs. Mean are correct. All 6 eggs passed the float test, but I'll give the 2 oldest ones to the dogs.
- sprinkled dolomite in comfrey bed
Wednesday
- bagged frozen blueberries (2 qts)
- froze more (about half gallon)
- 1 baby chick hatched!
Thursday
- weeded herb beds (worked on)
- dolomited herb beds
- mowed weeds in corn & cowpeas
- watered elderberries & red raspberries
- watered comfrey
- soaked old storage potatoes in whey & water
Friday
- planted potatoes
- added dolomite & bone meal to bed
- only one baby chick
- very hot today (103° F)
- stored sweet potatoes sprouting
- made a sweet potato pie
- froze 2 pints of sweet potato puree
Saturday
- canned relish from what we grew: cucumbers, onions, & garlic
- have started to hear a wood thrush singing
- made 1st blueberry pie of the season
- noted Meyers lemon is blooming!
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