Sabbath school class, please finish Nehemiah this week.
We finally got our garden planted today, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, parsley already in. But today we planted green beans, peas, lettuce, spinach, okra, cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchini, buttercup squash, butternut squash, acorn squash, spaghetti squash (Pat likes this far better than I), beets, radishes, parsnips, and carrots.
We didn't plant corn this year because the grass hoppers ate us out last year. Nor onions, easier to buy that, than to store. We need a root cellar but......
Pat did build us a rotating composter this year and we are cooking our first batch.
We are going to have a small batch of plums this year due to frost but we will have lots of Nanking cherries. The grapes are leafing out now. We also got a new one to replace the one that died and it is a seedless green grape. Did I tell you that Pat planted 100 asparagus plants, also. And we got 2 more rhubarb plants so someday I will have rhubarb for pies!
We're thinking maybe next year we'd do strawberries.
We let speckles out in the yard to graze while we planted and when we went in, we left him in the yard, but he doesn't like being alone. (People are fine and preferable to sheep.) So he came up to the patio door and grabbed the rubber stripping that holds the screen in and pulled it out. Pat was so mad, he had just fixed that door this spring! So now Pat's working on it again and Speckles is banned back to sheep pasture. Soon we will be moving Blackie our ram and Speckles the pet to new quarters so we can control when our sheep get pregnant this year. We're just waiting for the electric and telephone company to mark where the lines are for the final fence. The gas company came out right away.
Have a good week!
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