All kinds of news to talk about here.
\nWe put out our first 50 feet of sunflowers, protected this year with chicken wire. Last years attempts at building a sunflower wall on the far side of the creek miserably failed with all of the seeds and plants being eaten before they got going.<\/p>\n
Colorado potato bugs are out intermittently in the potato patch, laying clusters of bright orange eggs on the underside of the leaves. So far we tend to find a dozen bugs and a dozen egg clusters on a daily basis.<\/p>\n
We did put out another yard of dirt to hill up the potatos. This is in our new bed that typically has only 2 inches or so in the valleys. Over time we will continue to add dirt to it to bring it up a log.<\/p>\n
The vines arrived and were planted on Friday June 4th into their raised beds. We have 4 concord vines and 4 something something vines.
\nAlready they show signs of needing to be supported and trained, so that may happen tonight. <\/p>\n
We also received ten balsam fir trees (very tiny.. only 6-8 inches tall).
\nThe intent here was to start planting and harvesting our own christmas trees in a few years time. So we planted four for that purpose, 2 more to extend the northern property line and the remaining four to replace other failed trees in the northern berm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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