Dug potatoes today

 I started off with three dollars of potato seeds. These come in a bag I did not get to pick and choose.. I wanted to try planting them in a laundry basket with holes around it  the above yield,  I got out of the laundry basket. There were several that were rotten. I planted the laundry basket first and used most of my seed potatoes there. I had a few left so I planted them in the ground. I think it was six plants..

These are the ones that I got out of the ground that were planted in an above ground planter the yield was much higher. I also had several rotten ones in the hamper basket. My vines were not dead yet and I dug them a little early, and I Knew that.

Fleta is going down to see Betty on the fourth and I Wanted to send some to her and that’s why I dug them early. The vines were not completely dead. I’m not sure how much bigger the little potatoes would have gotten if I would’ve waited till they were completely dead.

The good news is I dumped all the straw and manure out of the laundry hamper and into that above ground planter. It is fantastic compost. This is where I intend to plant all my strawberry plants this winter so hopefully by next year I will have great strawberry plants.

The only thing I really like out of the garden is fresh tomatoes, and jalapeño peppers. The rest of the stuff I planted was just to see if I could.

Let me tell you I can grow cucumbers. I have cucumbers coming out my ears.

The tree that was leaning over the house

 Is now down in the yard and we didn’t hit anything important. 

The kid that did it for me his name is Justin. He did a great job and I could tell he is a really good kid. He’s just a junior at Greenforest high school and he’s now bigger than a minute. I’ll bet he didn’t weigh 115 pounds maybe But it was all grit. .

I picked up a lot of the limbs  today and loaded them in the tractor bucket and hold them off, but I took the tractor back. I will tackle the bigger things another day at least push them off where I can get all branches.

I am using Betty‘s wagon that she gave me. I pulled it up on the porch. The front porch today. I took all the plants I had out and put in it and tonight I’ll pull it back into the living room and tomorrow I’ll pull it back out. Patsy used to call this. Hardening off the plants. I don’t know. I’ll try anything to get a good tomato. I got all of my aero gardens cleaned up yesterday freshwater in them new vitamins in them and then I apply in my seeds. I think they’re gonna do good again. Hopefully these plants I can put right in the garden And won’t have to try to mess with putting them in cups.

But I’m not really for sure

My son Billy called me today. He was real nice to hear from. I have tried to quit calling him bothering the children all the time. I know they have busy lives so if they don’t have time to call me, it’s fine. I’m gonna quit all this fall after I’m in begging to talk to me.

Jr is giving me an older riding lawnmower yippee Skippy. I’m so thankful I love mowing the yard.

I’ve still got half a trailer load of manure out there to unload.

I wish I had the trailer up by my old tomato spot so I wouldn’t have to carry it so far. Then again, I’m sure the exercise won’t hurt me a bit.

When May rolls around, I’m going to start spraying all around the fence row all around the house all around all the rocks around the two outbuildings, the light pole everything like that where I need to weed eat cause I’m not weed eating. I’m gonna use the riding lawnmower and what I can’t get to with it I’m gonna kill

I bought a ham today at Walmart. I had not bought one a long time. I guess it’s about my favorite meat.

Warm

 Today I planted six cabbage plants sewed three packages of reddish’s. I have onion plants, onion sets, and strawberries. I planted a few days ago. I planted one zucchini plant.

My tomato and pepper plants that I started in the light water boxes have done great I’ve got them all in Styrofoam cups after today I’m gonna put them all on my deep freeze under a blue light and I’m gonna clean out my arrow water, things and plant them all three back with more tomatoes I’m gonna plant 12 small bush tomatoes the other one will be early girls, but I don’t guess they’re gonna be too early cause I haven’t even got the seed started yet, but I will tonight.

I planted some Marigold’s here and there to try to help with the bugs. I really need them around my tomato plants.

Betty and Laura came and seen me yesterday. I fixed the salad and angel food cake for us. Fleta wants another angel food cake just for herself to eat. I told her I’d pick up one tomorrow a box and make it for her. She’s going to see Betty I think this weekend Well the weekend before Easter whenever that is I told her if I was her I just stay gone yesterday and hope Laura cooked for me cause I can tell you no one‘s gonna cook for up here.

The care I hired to trim my tree has turned out to be a jewel. We’ve not heard the roof and we’ve not heard the propane tank and he has all the top of the tree down. We right at the fork now he said he’s coming back today to finish, we’ll see he is a really good kid.

Garden

 I planted onion plants,onion sets, and potatoes. In the morning I am planting cabbage plants

Betty and Laura are coming tomorrow.. My Sisters love me so much.

I have a kid cutting down a tree for me. 

I'm giving Laura my surger. She has been sewing a lot . I'm planting more tomato seeds tomorrow in my Aero planers

I decorated the graves at Alpena today.

A day of reflection

 Sometimes facing up to things that have happened in your life are not always pretty. Chasing people just to try to have a relationship with them does not ever work. At three score in 10 I should know this by now. Some of us are just slow learners

I don’t really have any regrets. But I do think it’s about time that I just give up on some things.

It was another rainy day here in the Ozarks. I got a lot of tomato plants put out in bigger containers. I hope the ground warms up so I can put them outside soon.

God is good all the time. I just need to Remember that .