Monday, monday

Spent the morning in Medford picking up fertilizers and other chemicals, drip tape, groceries etc.

Got home around noon, after lunch helped dad put down lime for the watermelon field. Watered the remaining lettuce plants and mowed until supper time. Lovely alternating balmy and cool evening breezes. Dad ran the cultivator and drag through the field we had just limed.

Grapes are just starting to bud up their flowers. Should be open in a couple weeks, probably not long after this next rainy spell clears out. Gonna have to spray the apples for scab and coddling moth around then too. Doesn't matter what any one says, when push comes to shove people will buy ten times as many sprayed apples as they will unsprayed. I dare any organics-only person to contradict me.

Will be putting in tomato rows tomorrow and that is an involved process! Hopefully I'll remember to bring my camera along so I can show y'all a pic of our equipment and methods.

Wishing you a playful spring night.

Planting onions in the rain

Got just shy of a thousand feet of onion planted yesterday afternoon. Showers blew in as we were finishing the last two rows of reds. Nothing makes me feel quite so alive as working in the rain.

Going back to bro's welding shop this morning to work on the fertilizer drops for the corn seeder. Couple of hours there then we'll come back for planting broccoli, cauliflower and some other plants which should be safe now that the deer fence is complete.

Wishing everyone a safe, peaceful day.