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unicornduke) wrote2025-06-02 02:36 pm
unicornduke) wrote2025-06-02 02:36 pm
beep beep lots to do
Friday night, we pushed late and got all the plastic (biodegradable black mulch technically) laid for the vegetables. The pick your own veggies have suffered for a lack of marketing in the past, I'm hoping to fix that in the coming months. Typically we do tomatoes and peppers and a few other assorted things. My starts did so badly this year, I think it's the grow lights my parents have, I don't think the light lengths are correct for plants. We also buy in flats from Kube Pak for the more generic paste tomatoes and green bell pepper.
Saturday it rained. Again. Inch of rain. We did planning for the church rental business, caught up on some planning stuff and did some other easy things.
Yesterday, me and an employee got all 600 plants in the ground, woo! It took me a while to get the irrigation all figured out and then we picked rocks. It was 8:00pm by the time I got inside to eat dinner, checked the forecast and realized the overnight prediction had dropped to 39F. We run 5 degrees colder. Ack. It had also poured rain at some point, so everything was sopping wet. So I got all the leftover blueberry pots that my parents have stashed in the barn and dropped pots over top of each plant to gain a degree or two. Honestly, they probably didn't need it in the end, but c'est la vie. We had leftover plastic without plants, so I had my mom place an order with Kube Pak for some of their leftover/available trays of eggplants and a few herbs for shits and giggles to see if that makes sense with PYO.
We're opening for strawberry picking starting on thursday, so I spent this morning running errands (groceries, truck plate change finally, perscription at cvs, etc) and I'm hopping off to do some baking in a few minutes (lemon bars as my snack for this week, chocolate chip muffins maybe, yogurt and calzones for dinner). All my free time has been absorbed in reading books and spinning so that's been fun
It's supposed to be in the 80s this week, ew
Saturday it rained. Again. Inch of rain. We did planning for the church rental business, caught up on some planning stuff and did some other easy things.
Yesterday, me and an employee got all 600 plants in the ground, woo! It took me a while to get the irrigation all figured out and then we picked rocks. It was 8:00pm by the time I got inside to eat dinner, checked the forecast and realized the overnight prediction had dropped to 39F. We run 5 degrees colder. Ack. It had also poured rain at some point, so everything was sopping wet. So I got all the leftover blueberry pots that my parents have stashed in the barn and dropped pots over top of each plant to gain a degree or two. Honestly, they probably didn't need it in the end, but c'est la vie. We had leftover plastic without plants, so I had my mom place an order with Kube Pak for some of their leftover/available trays of eggplants and a few herbs for shits and giggles to see if that makes sense with PYO.
We're opening for strawberry picking starting on thursday, so I spent this morning running errands (groceries, truck plate change finally, perscription at cvs, etc) and I'm hopping off to do some baking in a few minutes (lemon bars as my snack for this week, chocolate chip muffins maybe, yogurt and calzones for dinner). All my free time has been absorbed in reading books and spinning so that's been fun
It's supposed to be in the 80s this week, ew
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