Tuesday of this past week, I started cutting the grass at the farm house when the lawnmower (aka Scag) decided to quit cutting. So I called for some help and had to wait a little bit. While I waited, I was able to spray the peach/almond trees a second time. (The flower petals had fallen off.) As I went around the peach trees, I saw little baby peaches! I'm so very excited! I really do hope that I will be able to get a pretty decent harvest from them. Lord only knows how long it's been since they were cared for. Now, the scuppernine vines are a whole 'nother beast which will hafta wait until this fall to deal with. It is so overgrown with honeysuckle vines and privet hedge that it ain't funny. I did have one of the men to use the chain saw and cut down the biggest privet hedge so the vine could get some sunshine. There may be a fair harvest from them - like enough to snack on.
Now, as far as my little bit here at the house, it's slow-moving. I've gotten the black plastic and the first row of cinder blocks down for my raised strawberry bed. I'm trying to get use of the truck so I can bring in some pine straw/hay to put down before I build the next row of blocks. I believe it'll be easier to install the straw/hay that way instead of building the walls and then trying to add the straw/hay. My little tomato plants are waiting ever so patiently to be put into buckets. Maybe I'll get to that today after church.
I think we may have gotten our "blackberry winter" now. I've had to turn the heat back on! Plus there was a little bit of frost on my car yesterday morning. I don't really know b/c I've never experienced a "blackberry winter." If I have, I never knew what it was. The things I'm learning!! :)
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