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Thursday, May 03, 2007
Flowers Planted
After breakfast with the sky looking like it might rain anytime, we
decided to drive to a greenhouse near Greensburg. It was a little over
thirty miles, but we had been there the last two years and they always
have nice plants. Linda picked out some plants that she liked and I
picked out some that I liked and we decided where we would plant them
and how many we needed. I also picked up 8 tomato plants while we were
there that were setting outside and ready to be planted. We ate lunch
and then returned to the farm, I backed the HHR to the back of the upper
barn and we unloaded the plants. In the bottom of the pots, we used some
of the dirt from when we tilled the spot for the new strawberry patch.
It was already mixed with manure and humus, then put the plants in and
topped it off with potting soil. Linda planted some of the flowers in
the old tub at the corner of the house and the whiskey barrels at the
front of the barn. I mowed back in the 'holler' while Linda and Stacey
were finishing the flower planting.
It
rained a little while and then Linda and I took the tomato plants to the
little patch I had worked up inside the fence near the mum patch. We
planted the 8 plants and drove the Mule around the mum patch checking on
the condition of the ground. I will need to make sure I have disked the
mum patch at least twice more to remove any remaining weeds before the
mums we ordered arrive around the end of May.