For Father’s Day we went down to my parent’s home and while it rained all afternoon it was just a nice quiet visiting and nap time. I did get in an hour of weeding back at home, but a storm chased us down to the farm and arrived just after we did.
For dinner we all made our own pizzas and cooked them in the outdoor bread oven which was a lot of fun, but once I was done eating I could not stand not getting some time in down in the field. I had packed some already dirty clothes which I changed into, and dug the weedwacker out of their pole barn. Looking out from the house it looked like the weeds were as tall as the corn out there.
Once down there, I could see my assessment was correct for the most part, and I walked the weedwacker up and down all of the rows which actually did a really nice job. The planting of Painted Mountain that Nell and I put in early spring is actually tasseling already. With that being the case, it is going to be mature and dried down before the end of July. Not bad. The deer my parents have been seeing have pretty much taken out the Victor Kucyk 2175, but with an acre of the same corn out at the Ness farm I cannot complain too much about that. There is limited damage to the rest of the corn, but barring some other disaster it should do fine.
The really bright spot is the squash I put in down there on Mother’s Day a month ago. there is about 60 plants which I hand weeded clean, and then weedwacked the whole area around them. They are vining already and have leaves the size of dinner plates.
I was soaked with rain and sweat by the time I finished, just in time for the skies to clear and the sun to come out.
The beans I undersowed to much of the corn out there seem to be doing fine. They are all semi-twining varieties and do not seem to mind if it is corn or weeds they were climbing up. No idea how they will fare the rest of the summer, but worst case scenario is that they add to the soil nutrients so it will be fine regardless.
