Pretty Much Done

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I worked from dinner to dark on Friday, dawn to dusk on Saturday, and tried to work in wet clay after a rain on Sunday.  The size of the garden is what it is.  I am not going to try to fill the whole area available to me.  110 feet by 170 feet.  That is how much I did at the Adickes farm.

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Friday, I brought along everyone except Patti and Claire.  Kids, I wanted to run around and wear themselves out.  Patti needed a quiet house to get computer work done, and Claire is good at being quiet and self sufficient.  I needed to get tomatoes and peppers in, which I did.  Along with a bunch more TPS potatoes as well.  Ended up with 45 TPS plants, 90 tomato plants, 100 total peppers of three different varieties, and 12 Orinoco tobacco plants.  Above is a photo of Ben with 5 gallon buckets of cow manure I was using when setting in plants which I would mix with potting soil and the clayish loam that is the field.

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The farm cats tolerate Violet even better than Puddy Man does here at home.

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The early planting of squash is coming up (the ones in hills of the Three Sisters planting) and I felt it was pressing, now, that we are a week into June, to get the rest of the winter squash in.  I can do some hills of shorter season summer squash later and it won’t matter.

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51 was the total number of Jimmy Nardello peppers I got it.  It would have been twice that amount, but I forgot a flat of them in my basement, where they dried up and died.  <sigh>  Oh well.  So enough for 3 families instead of 6 for this one type.

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The corn in the hills is getting close to a foot high.

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First beans in the corn hills are starting to break through.

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I also put in a planting of 30 Siberian peppers.  I would like to have enough to make a few gallons of pepper vodka, and some jars of fermented hot sauce.  30 plants should be more than enough for that.

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I ended up right at about 100 individual hills of Baby Vi squash, and then on Saturday evening Katrina and I did a long row, being we put down a layer of composted cow manure, and then raked and mixed the surrounding soil together with it, making a two sided hill 90 feet long in which we put 100 seeds to a side into it.  I figure I will thin that to one plant about every 20 inches, and that hill hopefully take us up to about a ton of mature winter squashes, combined with the other hills. I also got in 12 different F2 expressions on a pole bean planting I will have to trellis.  75 linear feet of double rows.

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I came back on Sunday, hoping to plant a couple more rows, but we had rain last night, which had made the soil largely unworkable.  I spent a bit over an hour putting in 11 hills of melons, which was not terribly productive, before giving up.  The beans that Bella and Claire planted last week though came up while I was there which was good to see.

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There are two largely unplanted rows which I tilled last week. (Siberian peppers is at the end of one of them)  One of them needs to be prepped for sweet potato slips I expect to get in a bit over a week.  The other, I am not sure.  Perhaps some hills of summer squash, maybe more storage beets or rutabagas.  Or green beans.

I had planned on doing a lot more.  Time and weather has not allowed.  But overall, our gardens here at home are in, the Ness farm ( a half acre ) is in, the potato garden at Virgil’s is in (60×75) and as I said, the garden at the Adickes farm is as big as I can do.  Just some filling in work to do.  Some later plantings of fall crops, and maintenance now until we start harvesting.

As a side note, I put in Haudenosaunee pole beans gifted to me by Elizabeth Hoover this weekend, here at home.  Beautiful beans, and hope they do well here.

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