Well I am going to start putting up posts here after having taken some grief about stopping. The main reason I quit was most of my posts were about the terrible state of the Nation and this State in particular.
I have finally decided that there is nothing that will ever be done to straighten out the mess this State is in, without a complete and total throwing out of every single State wide elected official and the election of new ones who have never been there before, AND term length restrictions put in place. Then the new people need to totally clean house of all the present unelected bureaucrats who make up their own rules without benefit of public input.
So how's that for a beginning rant? Right back where I was two years ago!
In a lighter vein, I'm going to be putting up here all the mundane, day to day, actions that I am doing around the old homestead. Most of you, if you travel the roads of BI, may have noticed that there is is 50' x 30 ' High Tunnel sitting down there in my lower yard. This is the third summer it has been up and the first two were kind of learning the in's and out's of one of these things.
Last spring we put a bunch of new compost in there and tilled it in. Well it was just not rotted down fine enough 'cause I could hardly get a plant to stand up in the dirt. To many large pieces of wood, bark, stones, and general deitrus,(sp). So the only practical solution was to take the Skid Steer and dig it all out and run it through a screening plant, which we did, and continued on to do the rest of the whole gardening plot. I mean to tell you, it is some fine stuff right now and about 2 foot deep throughout! Hopefully this summer will bring to actuality, the reason for buying it its the first place. We should now be able to start things much earlier and extend them into the fall.
A guy by the name of Eliot Coleman up in Maine grows greens and other types of hardy veggies up there all year long! And that is with no auxiliary heat in the houses. I do believe I will give it a try myself this year.
Two years ago my very good friend Herman Mast brought to me, three white peach trees. They were whips at the time, and we planted them in cut in half blue plastic barrels and have fed and pruned them so that they will hopefully assume a dwarf stature. Be nice to see some blossoms on them this spring.
Well I guess that is enough drivel for this time. Tune in again in a couple days for more of the same if you can stand it! TIFN
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