just like a thursday

A not-so-unique day today. Surely nothing close to negative in there, just very "meat and potatoes."

What I might mention before the meat & potatoes, though, is the ragweed pollen that's been kicking my nose's butt for the past week. Hoo wee!! Did you say you want me to sneeze... AGAIN?? Okay! Here goes!! ....Thank you sir, may I have another?!?!?!

For real. It's been quite the sneeze fest. Local honey has offered a modicum of relief, but with levels as high as they've been, nothing short of my own bubble is going to offer clear sinuses.

On with the day...

I began by pulling drip tape back into the peppers that we weeded a few weeks ago. This time though we are using only one line per bed as the plants have peaked and will not need such a big push. Plus their roots are far down and spread laterally enough to be able to tap water from a greater depth and distance.
Eggplants received a little water as well. Luckily the lines were still set up in the beds.
With the focus on irrigation (as our 10-day forecast shows little to no rain), I moved the overhead lines from our squash and cucumbers in F to the beans/herbs/chard area in D. Poised to irrigate, but not until peppers and eggplants were done. Must make sure to run one zone at a time so as not to exceed the capabilities of the well pump.

All the while, D & E were cleaning out the greenhouse. Major cleaning too. Looks awesome. All ready for the squash on Monday.

When that was finished, we all cultivated the two new beds of squash and cucs in F. The cucumbers are not doing too well for some reason. The germination rate was about 50%. And those that did germinate are barely over 3" tall. We cultivated them anyway (instead of tilling them in) to see what will come of it.

We took a quick break.

E & I went straight to harvesting. Lettuce first, then leeks.

We killed 10 minutes before lunch trimming garlic. Good time killer.

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After eating, I hopped on the Cub to basket weed the freshly handweeded beds in C. While handweeding is the most thorough method of cultivation, it's still good practice to turn over all the weedlings that were left for dead before they have a chance to re-root.

Turned on overhead irrigation in D then.

Straight to the sweet potato bed in Y to help D & E cultivate. My weapon was a collinear hoe. Now, the soil in that field is rocky to begin with, but add sunny/dry weather for over a week and you get a soil whose tilth is somewhere close to "sidewalk." Regardless we made our way through. As an aside, some creature(s) has managed to nibble its way down the length of the 400' bed. Taking the outermost leaves from the vines. Not bad damage, just don't want anymore than that.

Our last harvest of the day was peppers. All red all the time. Beautiful.

To end my day, I made a trip to a farm close by to pick up chicken feed. Wouldn't want those guys to miss out on their daily game of "pecking order breakfast." It can get kinda violent in there. Believe me.

After the workday, I moved straight to the log. Using a drawknife I shaved off all the unwanted bark and rotted wood around the outside. With that done I plotted a 13 x 15" rectangle on the end of the log so I can rough cut it with the chainsaw tomorrow.
More pictures then.

Laundry came after. Then a very tasty dinner and now this.

Ok, not as "meat and potatoes" as it felt. Perhaps... with a few tasty side dishes.

Dig.