Got Poe beans planted. Planted Grandma Robert’s Purple Pole Beans yesterday, seed from
@Zeedman. Today I planted Cassie’s Purple Pods pole beans from
@Bluejay77 and purple pole beans from
@flowerbug. My thanks to the three of you for sending me those seeds.
@flowerbug i haven’t planted purple dove yet, but hopefully between rain storms this week, I can.
Haha, my husband has never helped me plant through the cardboard. He got a real education today! I have a huge kitchen knife that I use, often with a hammer. His tool of choice was a machete and hammer. Both of us used 22 ounce waffle headed hammers and cries of OUCH! with expletives rang out when we missed and bashed our knuckles. These are pumpkin boxes that we get every year, they are triple thick. Maybe next year, instead of beating a knife, machete, our knuckles, with a big hammer, I could capture a beaver in need of a dental appointment and have him chew through the pumpkin boxes!
BJ, machete and hammer cutting holes through the cardboard so I could plant seeds.
Me, giant kitchen knife and hammer, wacking holes in cardboard.
Poor man just didn’t know what it takes to beat the crap out of a cardboard box. LOL LOL He was whupped.
Since we were tired and worn out from the last 4 days, we went berry picking in the fence row across the road from our place. I figured we had an hour before the rains hit. The vines were loaded. Of course, the best blackberries are deep into the vines where we had to weave our hands between stickery vines, getting stabbed by tiny thorns that breakaway from the vines, embedding themselves in our hands. At least we had sense enough to put on long sleeved shirts.
It sprinkled. Stopped. Sprinkled again. Stopped again. It sprinkled and stopped several more times, wetting us down pretty good. We kept picking. Finally the bottom fell out, drenching us like two drowned rats. We quit, got in the mule and went home. We did get a big bowl of black berries!
I decided to go ahead and feed animals. BJ thought I was nuts. But I told him once I clean up and change clothes, I’m not going to want to go back out in the rain to do chores. So I fed animals in pouring rain, what difference did it make? I was already soaking wet. Haha.
We took showers, put on clean clothes and went to town to go eat because we were starving and I had the foresight to NOT thaw out anything for supper.
I’m happy with what we got done. I got a late start, never been this late getting the garden started before. So I’m going to call it an early fall garden. LOL LOL
Tired. Bring on the rain.
more power to ya for sure... 
