It was a busy weekend, with better weather than the weather prognosticators were predicting. Heavy rains held off until the late evening Sunday. Mother’s Day, all of us, including Patti’s mom, was spent down at my parent’s B&B south of Red Wing. The kids dug out the flower girl dresses they wore at my brother Matt’s wedding more than 4 years ago. Violet fits in the one Phoebe wore back then, and Phoebe fits in the one Nell wore. For Nell and Claire, they have grown past the point where they fit into any of them, but did give me a good photo opportunity in the afternoon.
Nell and Claire ran themselves to the point of exhaustion, chasing each other all over the property.
Other than bringing my mom a bunch of perennials, the closest I got to doing anything relating to my growing things was checking out the apple trees I transplanted there years ago. One of them is flowering. I hope it sets fruit, and curious to find out how they taste. The tree in the yard here at home flowered prodigiously. Would be nice to have a lot of apples from our own trees and not just from someone else’s.
I did garden all day on Saturday. Well, from morning to later afternoon anyway. I finished planting everything at the Ness farm other than the beans and squash which I am still holding back on in regards to the large plantings. Some of the nights are still chilly, and so long as I get them into the ground in the next three weeks, all will be good in that regard. Was good to see the Painted Mountain corn was up.
So, that is what it looked like when I first arrived. The cover crop that I will mow throughout the summer has come up nicely since we were there last.
And that is what it looked like when I was done and packing it up for the day. I put in two more kinds of corn, and rows of long season storage beets, as well as some more rutabagas.
Back home, Patti and I emptied, cleaned out the pond, refilled, and now the goldfish and koi are happily out of the tank in the breezeway and back in their summer home.
And lastly, not entirely unrelated to all of the gardening we do, this is an organic nitrogen fertilizer that Patti did the graphic design work on. We don’t grow grass, but thought I would give it a try as a side dressing for the corn later in the season. And I just wanted to have one of the bags. <grin>
