2009
*harvested onions
*pulled up & composed radishes, spinach, & garden peas
*noted chives, cilantro, & basil up

2001
*harvested 5 oz blueberries (aprx 1/2 pt)

1996
*began swim season

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

2008
*forecast calls for freezing temperatures tonight; spent the day after church getting ready for freeze
*harvested remaining tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, raspberries
*built cold frame from hay bales, fence posts, and 4-mil plastic sheeting in Keeping Garden around mustard & lettuce; built small square clotch from pvc pipe & 4-mil plastic - placed over spinach
*harvested remaining Fuji apples: stored 65 in flats in spare bedroom - heat shut off to room; stored 23 in plastic bags in fruit crisper in frig; holding 3/4 of 5-gallon bucket in spare bedroom until I can process them, probably as applesauce
*gathered zinnia seed & globe amaranth seed
*Love cleaned chimney
***weather update: home thermometer shows overnight low of 35.4F; noted spotty frost on lawn & some exposed plants

2008
*weeded & hoed part of overgrown section of temporary vegetable garden
*planted small section of Bloomsdale spinach, Buttercrunch lettuce, Imperator carrots & Tendergreen mustard
*mustard planted Sept 6 is up
*harvested cherry tomatoes & chocolate bell peppers
*continuing raspberry harvest: picked 1/2 cup from Heritage red bushes
*picked off 4 hornworms from tomatoes & peppers