Baymule’s 2021 Garden

[seedcorn]

Any help is better than no help!

No, it’s not. Wife pulls tops off of weeds, making roots go deeper and harder to,pull.

 

[henless]

I've got blooms on my maters Bay!

 

[baymule]

Mine aren’t even in the ground yet. But I have a volunteer that has a bloom on it, does that count? LOL LOL

I've got blooms on my maters Bay!

Congratulations on the tomato blooms! Whoop!

I picked 2 wash tubs full of mustard greens yesterday. I got a half of a wash tub of turnip greens. I put one bag of turnip greens in the freezer and 4 bags of mustard greens. We had mustard greens and hot water cornbread for supper. So many WEEDS!

 

[Ffagirl223]

I asked for help with all the grass and weeds in the garden, so we can start planting. This is the help I got. Not quite what I pictured.

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Such a beautiful horse

 

[baymule]

I tilled the garden yesterday with neighbor Robert’s tiller. I am sore this morning. Today we will lay down cardboard, fill back of mule with wood chip mulch and shovel it out and spread over the cardboard. Or at least we will get a running start on it. Tomorrow we butcher chickens. Pack in ice cooler so I can cut, process and vacuum seal over the next couple of days. It’s supposed to be rainy so can’t play outside.

 

[baymule]

We didn’t get the cardboard put down or the mulch. I forgot the neighbor had the tractor, giving her a tune up and changing fluids and filters. We worked in the garden today.

This is my entire 2021 English pea harvest. We ate it for supper. LOL LOL

 

[baymule]

Yesterday and today we finally got the garden ready. Tomorrow I start planting. Tomorrow night it starts raining and will rain all week. It rained all last week, yesterday and today we’re the only clear days. Tomorrow will be cloudy until it starts raining. But maybe I can run out between rains to plant something. We have hit it as fast and as hard as we could yesterday and today. We are sore and tired. The tomato trellises are ready to plant. We laid down paper feed sacks and covered with well composted wood chips mulch. It is well broken down, black and crumbly.

The green strip to the left is mustard greens peeping out from a blanket of ragweed, lambs quarters, chickweed and other assorted weeds bent on taking over the world.

To the right of the Long tomato trellis is where I’ll plant beans.

Last year we put down weed cloth on this place in the garden. It let in enough light for crabgrass and lambs quarters to grow, which lifted the weed cloth up. Had to roll up the weed cloth, pull the fanged crabgrass and lambs quarters, then roll the weed cloth back out. So today we laid out paper feed sacks, cut open, then rolled weed cloth out over them.

After we finished that, we stopped fro lunch. Then we came back out, I laid down cardboard while DH brought wood chip mulch in the tractor bucket and dumped it.

Then we moved to a strip on the other side of the mustard greens and laid cardboard down and mulch over it. I haven’t raked it all out yet, we were exhausted and stopped. I’ll rake it out tomorrow.

 

[baymule]

This morning DH raked out the piles of mulch and covered the cardboard while I planted tomatoes.

Then we drove in T posts for trellis to plant pole beans on. We put up 3 trellis, 30 feet long. Then I planted 20 rows of Painted Mountain corn, 30 feet long. I planted one of the pole bean trellis, Grandma Robert’s Purple Pole beans. We are tired.

Painted Mountain corn rows with pole beam trellis in the middle.

 

[flowerbug]

This morning DH raked out the piles of mulch and covered the cardboard while I planted tomatoes.

Then we drove in T posts for trellis to plant pole beans on. We put up 3 trellis, 30 feet long. Then I planted 20 rows of Painted Mountain corn, 30 feet long. I planted one of the pole bean trellis, Grandma Robert’s Purple Pole beans. We are tired.

Painted Mountain corn rows with pole beam trellis in the middle.

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looking great there @baymule and DH!

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

20 rows of corn? Did you hand plant it or do you have a seeder?

Your garden is looking great! I know you will have a great harvest.

This morning DH raked out the piles of mulch and covered the cardboard while I planted tomatoes.

Then we drove in T posts for trellis to plant pole beans on. We put up 3 trellis, 30 feet long. Then I planted 20 rows of Painted Mountain corn, 30 feet long. I planted one of the pole bean trellis, Grandma Robert’s Purple Pole beans. We are tired.

Painted Mountain corn rows with pole beam trellis in the middle.

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