We are finally here...well, at least I am; Smoky's transfer doesn't go through for another month. And although I have many photos to share I can't even find the camera to download them. As I type, I am surrounded by boxes. They can stay there a while. The number one priority this first week full time at the homestead is to get the garden in.
Today ends Day #3 of waking at the crack of dawn to beat the heat and get seeds in the ground. I work till around 1:00, stumble in for lunch, and then try to unpack during the afternoon. (Not terribly productive today: I fell asleep in a camp chair on the porch.) This is what's planted so far: tomato plants, basil, butternut squash, lettuce, spinach, collard greens, swiss chard, two varieties of sweet corn, two varieties of pole beans, lima beans, and four varieties of shell beans. What's left? Carrots, zucchini, crookneck squash,two varieties of pumpkins, two varieties of both watermelon and cantaloupe, turban squash.
We netted the sour cherry tree against birds before Smoky left, and they should be ripe next week. I'll try to get a photo. Daughter is coming for a visit, and I believe I will wrangle her to help me can them up.
And pears....we have a half dozen or so trees LOADED with pears. It's actually a bit frightening.
But that's another story, and it will have to wait for another day. It's 9:00 p.m.. I'm so tired I can't even type straight. G'night.
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