That is what it felt like. Some kind of marathon which started with a commute early in the morning to an office, and ended with the moon late in the evening on a farm.
The Three Sisters planting is really starting to take off. Beans are not climbing yet, but they are all up inside the hills.
I found three packs of beans from a friend inside a jacket I happened to wear on Monday morning when it was raining and I needed the protection from being soaked. I fit them in where the Henderson’s Lima beans had a pretty much complete germination failure.
I put in about 50 feet of carrots that should mature in the late summer as well.
Brought Piper with me. She was a part of the marathon. When I got home after work, I made dinner (steak, potatoes mashed with carrots, and peas) in 22 minutes. Eat your heart out Rachel Ray. I ate dinner in 7 minutes, and got Piper to her vet appointment for stitches removal before heading out to the Adickes farm. Two and a half weeks ago she had a double mastectomy. Hoping the tumors were not cancerous. But for now she is a lot more comfortable.
The killdeer drove her a bit nuts, with the calling and broken wing dance. Piper never completely broke but she made a few starts at the bird.
Ran the mower between the rows of Bear Island Flint. Has taken off pretty well since I hilled and side dressed it. I bet it still tassels before the Red Speckled Flour, though it is only half the height right now.
Weeded half of the hills of squash and mowed between everything in the Three Sisters planting.
Also transplanted Baby Vi squashes from hills that had high germination to hills that had no germination, and watered them in well.
Photo is a bit out of focus because the light was getting low when I finished up. Talley for the day was three plantings of beans, good sized one of carrots, 16 squash hills weeded, 6 squashes transplanted to hills that had no germination, 1 forty foot bed tilled, with manure and peat moss, in anticipation of planting winter radishes in a couple of weeks. I think there were some mosquito bites somewhere in there too. Sweet potato slips have still not shown up yet. Hoping they come, but maybe I will end up planting winter radishes where I have that area prepped too.
