#feedthesoil

On Tuesday morning I was out in the Big garden by 6:30AM. I started at the south end and got the garlic cleaned out, the markers pulled out, and the row string taken down. Then I continued cleaning out

On Thursday morning I was up around 6AM and got a load in the dishwasher. I got my post up and my soil test results came in. So I spent an hour or so working up the amendment mixes sheets. My poor brain

Wood stove from my seat in the office Sunday morning I was not in good shape after finishing that awful garden. It was raining and cold and I got the wood stoves going well. I finished the bills/budget

Sunrise On Friday morning, I was up around 6:30AM and got my post up. I got a shower and got ready for exercise class. When I got home, I sat and rested until my #3 helper arrived at 12:30PM. The first

Big garden comfrey May 9, 2025 On Tuesday I wasn’t moving too fast. I got the post up and a load of dishes in the dishwasher before my helper friend arrived at 9:30AM. We collected our equipment and headed

South Herb garden – lily of the valley open a week early I just knew Friday was going to be crazy. I had a bunch of phone calls to make first thing, then get a shower and get dressed to unload the bulk

Big garden – nasturtiums bent on world domination On Friday morning I wasn’t up until 6:30AM, much to a cat’s disgust. I got him fed and my photos edited and the post up. I got the milk order in and had

On Thursday I finished with the gardens, notes, and photos around noon, just before my helper friend arrived. The first thing we did was get the tarp up to the house and on the clothesline. I was hoping

On Saturday, even though it was a nice day, I decided to get the amendment project finished. I worked on it all day with a couple hour break mid afternoon. I didn’t finish. On Sunday morning I got up and

On Friday morning I was up at 5:15AM. I’d finished the bills/budget on Thursday and written my post. So I got it up and decided to start another half finished project: updating the amendment order information.

On Monday morning I was up at 4AM to get my posts up and then I started prepping for the house cleaners. There were many little jobs that had been sitting to be done for weeks or longer. Things like repair

Last week my brother got the 2 front pastures weedwacked. On Friday I interviewed a house cleaner to try to get the house back in shape. In the afternoon I went to the Senior Center for a talk about a

New West – clump of tulips I was in pretty bad shape on Monday when I got up. I didn’t have to get the amendment order in by 7AM because the store didn’t open until 8AM. But I did have to have it in by

On Sunday morning I got up at 5AM. I had to work up the formula sheets for each of the big gardens. I discovered we’d made mistakes last year on the last one for the New Herb garden. I hadn’t changed anything

On Tuesday morning my general helper and I headed out for a local wood mill to look at their grades of wood chips. I needed a lot of them for the little trees, both old and new. We made it home just as