2001
*planted potatoes: 2 1/2 lbs Yudon Gold and 2 lbs Red Pontiac
*planted 2 parsley plants (curled leaf)
*radishes sprouting (planted March 10)
1999
*pruned Polish Spirit clematis back to 12"
*pruned #2 peach tree and three apple trees
1995
*set out 'Polish Spirit' clematis and 'Serrata Pink' hydrangea [which blooms blue]
March 20, 2009
March 19, 2009
March 12, 2009
March 10, 2009
2001
*dormant oil spray on pear, sweet cherry, apple, apricot, Starkling Delicious plum, and peach
*Ozark Premiere plum and Lucille plum leaving out
*tilled garden spot and added row on east side
*planted: Cherry ball radishes, Danvers carrots, sugar snap peas, Little Marvel peas, Detroit Red beets, Bloomsdale spinach, Florida Broadleaf mustard, buttercrunch lettuce, and prizehead lettuce
*set out: 5 Packman brocolli plants and 7 red-leaf lettuce plants
*dormant oil spray on pear, sweet cherry, apple, apricot, Starkling Delicious plum, and peach
*Ozark Premiere plum and Lucille plum leaving out
*tilled garden spot and added row on east side
*planted: Cherry ball radishes, Danvers carrots, sugar snap peas, Little Marvel peas, Detroit Red beets, Bloomsdale spinach, Florida Broadleaf mustard, buttercrunch lettuce, and prizehead lettuce
*set out: 5 Packman brocolli plants and 7 red-leaf lettuce plants
March 9, 2009
March 4, 2009
February 28, 2009
February 25, 2009
February 24, 2009
February 14, 2009
February 11, 2009
February 9, 2009
February 8, 2009
2009
*set out red, white, and yellow onion sets, all from FFC. Created "x" in center bed on north end of pool -- set at 4" intervals in a strip 2 onions wide, with 1 onion in center of each square created by onions. Also strip in eastmost bed on north end - yellow onions.
*started seed: Mammoth Red Rock & Stonehead cabbage. (27 plants total)
*pruned 3 oldest branches from each of the older blueberry bushes
*pruned laterals on blackberry bushes to 18"
*got 2 plastic 55 gallons drums from LM for use as rain barrels.
*toured GL's chicken set-up and made arrangements to take chicks. Cuckoo marans should be ready early next week.
*first blooms: daffodils & crocuses -- south end of house
*set out red, white, and yellow onion sets, all from FFC. Created "x" in center bed on north end of pool -- set at 4" intervals in a strip 2 onions wide, with 1 onion in center of each square created by onions. Also strip in eastmost bed on north end - yellow onions.
*started seed: Mammoth Red Rock & Stonehead cabbage. (27 plants total)
*pruned 3 oldest branches from each of the older blueberry bushes
*pruned laterals on blackberry bushes to 18"
*got 2 plastic 55 gallons drums from LM for use as rain barrels.
*toured GL's chicken set-up and made arrangements to take chicks. Cuckoo marans should be ready early next week.
*first blooms: daffodils & crocuses -- south end of house
February 7, 2009
2009
*Temps in mid 60s & windy.
*Planted garden peas. All seeds from Reimer Seeds, all planted on east side of the pool. One row of Sugar Snaps in northmost bed, along east fence. Three closely planted rows of Oregon Sugar Pod II Snow Peas running east-west in center of 2nd bed from north. Western half of 3rd bed from north planted in 3-inch grid with Mr. Big Sweet Peas.
*Temps in mid 60s & windy.
*Planted garden peas. All seeds from Reimer Seeds, all planted on east side of the pool. One row of Sugar Snaps in northmost bed, along east fence. Three closely planted rows of Oregon Sugar Pod II Snow Peas running east-west in center of 2nd bed from north. Western half of 3rd bed from north planted in 3-inch grid with Mr. Big Sweet Peas.
February 4, 2009
February 3, 2009
February 2, 2009
February 1, 2009
January 31, 2009
January 30, 2009
January 29, 2009
January 28, 2009
2009
*School "snow day" #3 for 2008-09; last night got approximately 1/2" crunchy snow over yesterday's ice. Power out 4 hours overnight plus 5:30am - 1:20pm; cable out. Love and I cleared driveway from fallen maple limbs. Overcast with temperatures below freezing: no melting from trees yet, but roads were passable enough for Love and I to go out around 6pm -- dry in some spots, slushy in others. Trees down on roads in places, but cleared enough that one lane of traffic could get by. Sam's, convenience store on the Interstate, and closest Harp's all closed because of no power. Road south of our house has lots of trees bending over the roadway, plus a low-hanging power line on the hill.
Damage observed on our place:
Trees older than 15 years (here when we bought the place): The tops are broken out of all the pecans trees, with perhaps 1 sustaining life-threatening damage. The wild cherry at the southeast corner of the property (Skye's climbing tree that she calls "Elizabeth") is broken into the trunk and will probably have to be removed. The southwest-most maple along the driveway is the only older tree that did not sustain damage. The northwest-most maple along the driveway is split into the trunk and will probably have to be removed. The other four maples along the driveway all lost lots of large limbs; their fates remain to be seen.
Trees 10-15 years old (which we set out): All four sawtooth oaks have significant damage. The cypress looks undamaged. The maple on the north end of the pool area has the top broken out of it. The maple outside our bedroom window lost one large limb; it would have probably lost more if Love hadn't gone out yesterday afternoon in the freezing rain and beat the ice off of parts of it. The plum tree looks undamaged. The maple near the south fence is badly broken. The pecan in the southeast corner is broken. The two maples along the county road have lost large limbs; the two shumard oaks in the same line appear undamaged.
Young trees: Our younger trees (most less than 5 years old) seem to have mostly escaped damage. Exception: the peach tree I set out last fall is broken off about 2/3's of the way up. Because the trunk was crooked, I tied in to a pole beside it when I set it out. This meant the tree could not bend, so it broke.
2000
*school "snow day"
*School "snow day" #3 for 2008-09; last night got approximately 1/2" crunchy snow over yesterday's ice. Power out 4 hours overnight plus 5:30am - 1:20pm; cable out. Love and I cleared driveway from fallen maple limbs. Overcast with temperatures below freezing: no melting from trees yet, but roads were passable enough for Love and I to go out around 6pm -- dry in some spots, slushy in others. Trees down on roads in places, but cleared enough that one lane of traffic could get by. Sam's, convenience store on the Interstate, and closest Harp's all closed because of no power. Road south of our house has lots of trees bending over the roadway, plus a low-hanging power line on the hill.
Damage observed on our place:
Trees older than 15 years (here when we bought the place): The tops are broken out of all the pecans trees, with perhaps 1 sustaining life-threatening damage. The wild cherry at the southeast corner of the property (Skye's climbing tree that she calls "Elizabeth") is broken into the trunk and will probably have to be removed. The southwest-most maple along the driveway is the only older tree that did not sustain damage. The northwest-most maple along the driveway is split into the trunk and will probably have to be removed. The other four maples along the driveway all lost lots of large limbs; their fates remain to be seen.
Trees 10-15 years old (which we set out): All four sawtooth oaks have significant damage. The cypress looks undamaged. The maple on the north end of the pool area has the top broken out of it. The maple outside our bedroom window lost one large limb; it would have probably lost more if Love hadn't gone out yesterday afternoon in the freezing rain and beat the ice off of parts of it. The plum tree looks undamaged. The maple near the south fence is badly broken. The pecan in the southeast corner is broken. The two maples along the county road have lost large limbs; the two shumard oaks in the same line appear undamaged.
Young trees: Our younger trees (most less than 5 years old) seem to have mostly escaped damage. Exception: the peach tree I set out last fall is broken off about 2/3's of the way up. Because the trunk was crooked, I tied in to a pole beside it when I set it out. This meant the tree could not bend, so it broke.
2000
*school "snow day"
January 27, 2009
2009
*snow day #2 for 2008-09 school year - ice on trees, fences, grasses, everywhere
Power out 11:30am - 2pm & 3:10pm-4:05 pm; cable out at 3pm.
Freezing rain most of the day. Ice difficult to measure, but local news says 1". Rain gauge was over 1" when it finally froze. (Later note: when melted, rain gauge measured 1 1/2".)
2004
*school "snow day"
*snow day #2 for 2008-09 school year - ice on trees, fences, grasses, everywhere
Power out 11:30am - 2pm & 3:10pm-4:05 pm; cable out at 3pm.
Freezing rain most of the day. Ice difficult to measure, but local news says 1". Rain gauge was over 1" when it finally froze. (Later note: when melted, rain gauge measured 1 1/2".)
2004
*school "snow day"
January 26, 2009
January 21, 2009
January 20, 2009
January 19, 2009
January 17, 2009
January 15, 2009
January 13, 2009
January 12, 2009
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