Great Weekend!

The weekend was spent doing our weekly cutting of the front 40 (a.k.a. our front yard/field of 3+ acres of field grass) plus weed-eating, bush-hogging, etc. Of course, we spent some time in the garden... little bit of weeding, little bit of watering, a lot of watching and planning for next year...

Some of the progress around the garden over the weekend:

The corn is THIS high now.

The peas are growing their blooms now.

Sooooo many peas now! They are so full and big that their runners and blooms are going everywhere!

The cabbages are growing their center heads now.

Event the honey bees were getting in on the garden food supply! They were all over the cilantro on Saturday.

And they were all over the cucumber blooms on Sunday.

Other fun farm work over the weekend included cutting down two old stumps in the front 40. Hubby enjoyed using his chainsaw and then the tractor to haul them to the burn pile back near the barn. The first stump was from a tree that rotted and broke off a couple of years ago.

The next stump proved to be a much larger task... This massive two trunk pecan tree was struck by lightening twice over the past 3 or so years. The first time it dropped onto the old shack barn on the front of our land. The second time, it fell onto it again. It was long overdue to cut the high stump. Hubby had no problem taking care of business.

Time to push it off... Awesome work!

Cutting the ends off to be able to haul it to the burn pile...

FINALLY!! What a job!

Garden Clean-Up

Saturday was another productive day on Wilsons Farms complete with lots of sunshine! After all the rain we have had in the past week or so, the plants were soaking in the sunshine like no tomorrow. Hubby kept telling me that the plants were growing before our eyes... and how they were bigger in the afternoon from when we first got in the garden that morning.

As you can see there are little squash coming in...



The cilantro is double in height now!



Most of our day was spent working in the garden. Hubby and I both spent a lot of time off and on hand weeding and hoeing the long rows. Again, with all of the rain we had, it is no surprise the amount of weeds we have too!







We also strategically dusted those plants still showing evidence of worms or bugs. We re-applied the deer/varmint prevention liquid to the plotsaver perimeter fence. And we set up our strings for the cucumber plants to "run" up!





Next up was thinning out the corn stalks... we planted 3-5 seeds in each hole back during the planting weekend in early May. They all seem to have made it to corn stalks! So we cut out the smaller ones to make more rooms for the best 1-2...





"BJ" came over to pitch in and he bush-hogged the overgrown lower bottom plot for us... this is where our honey bees are located. The white clover was pretty much dried-up so it was time to cut it.



Later in the day, "BJ" and Hubby did some scraping/leveling of one section of our driveway... This section was pretty eroded from all of the vehicles going over it in the past year.



We also planted more sweet corn... picked up a dollars worth at the local feed store. This will come in a month after our current planting.





All in all, the garden is looking fabulous!

Transplanting and Planting.

Last evening was spent with Hubby cutting the large front 3 acres of grass and myself bush-hogging the high perimeter weeds or "roughage" as I like to call it. This takes about 3 hours to do with one of us on a zero-turn mower and the other on the tractor pulling the bush-hog attachment. We finished up just as it was turning dark.



Before I got to bush hogging though I did a few things in the garden. One task was to pull up all 8 of the watermelon plants... we found out earlier in the week that we should not have planted them in the middle of the garden since they run all of the ground and will choke up all the other veggies. So I am transplanting them to a separate place on the plot in a corner so they can run.



I also planted some pecan tree seedlings someone at work gave me in a couple of pots. Again, just experimenting to see what happens.



And then after we made it home after dark, I put my okra seeds in water to soak before planting them the next morning. Why? Because that is what every farmer I have talked to has told me do!