Another hot late spring morning
On Thursday I was up at 5AM and worked on my post for a while before closing the house up and heading to the gardens at 6AM. I got all my equipment and got started prepping the lima bean row.
I had some old Jackson Wonder seeds I put in the first 2’ of the row, and then went to King of the Garden seeds. These were the biggest lima bean seeds I’d ever gotten. I hope they do well…
You can see on the left side of the row, I was still scavenging mulch from the rest of the garden but ended up using the new mulch from the bales for the right side.
I had raked off all the loose mulch from the celery and 2 of the onion rows to put under the new mulch hay. So these rows were ready to be prepped and planted on Friday.
The rhubarb survived whatever ate it in the winter and I found enough big leaves and stalks to make rhubarb sauce.
My brother came back from detailing his Mustang and we sat under the trees. A bluebird came to check out the house at the Big garden. It has been empty since the sparrows fledged.
I got my photos and cleaned up my mess and went inside and got a shower. I got the kitchen cleaned up and set out the ingredients for feeding the seedlings. I had also pulled out both hoses and set up to feed the cold frame seedlings before I came in. It was to be upper 80’s in the afternoon and I didn’t want to spend any more time outside than I had to.
I got the rhubarb sauce made and had gone down to the freezers to get a quart of strawberries to add to it, so it became strawberry-rhubarb sauce.
The only lupine left in the wildflowers
Then I sat down to rest until my #4 helper arrived at 1:45PM. We went right out and got the cold frame done and cleaned up from that. Then we tackled the seedlings that didn’t come up inside. All but the pumpkin pots went to the compost.
We were able to fit that tray with the pumpkin seeds on the top shelf of the left hand window and then put the 2 tall seedling trays underneath. So the right hand window was empty, as I hoped.
So we set about taking down all the lights and shelving for that and getting it put away in the cellar.
Next she brought downstairs all the plants from the bedrooms and we put them in the roundtop window, except the giant amaryllis which gets the right hand window to itself.
She had to go to the library before it closed so I sat down to rest. When she got back she fed the seedlings inside and then vacuumed for me.
I found the quote for the drywall install on the ceilings of the freezer room and the workshop and it was $8400.00!!! We paid, in 2020, $7400.00 to have the entire addition done, walls AND ceilings!! So he’s not getting this job…
None of the other contractors has gotten back to me so I’m not sure what I am going to do.
Larry in the living room west window
She left at 5:45PM and I made some supper and sat and played solitaire until bedtime. I got the house opened up to cool down.
On Friday I hope to be out in the garden and get the celery planted and maybe some of the storage onions. My #3 helper comes at 12:30PM and I don’t know what I will have her do as it will be too hot to be outside.
