Driving Posts & Cutting Bamboo & Work Bench Construction- Part 3!

One of the things us farmers do is check the weather. And we check it often. The local forecast has been calling for storms on this day since mid-this-past-week. As of this morning, the weather forecast was showing thunderstorms starting around 2-3pm. So the whole day is planned around that event happening in that time slot.... We started out heading to the closest metropolis, LaGrange for garden supplies and workshop materials... plus a trip to the grocery store. Home by late morning, on farm working by noon hour.

First off, Hubby went ahead and drove some new posts for me into the ground in/outside the run between my 2 rows of cucumbers. I am eventually going to build a tee-pee formation rack system up to these posts for my cucumbers to run up. But, the cuke plants are not quite big enough to starting "running" yet... so we have a little time before we have to construct it.





After all that manual labor of post-driving and once "BJ" arrived, Hubby retired to the barn out of the blazing hot sun... And Hubby and "BJ" were nice enough to start off by making me some stakes as requested. 18 inch long rebar pieces heated up and bent into a "J" formation for me to drive into the ground. I could tell they really enjoyed this task.











Once the stakes cooled down, I took them out to the garden and drove them into the dirt to pull the baling twine down closer to the pole bean plants. This will get them close enough in hoping the rain today would help the plants grow up and grab onto/run up the twine!





I did remember to pick up a few more tomato cages today while we were at the home improvement store... so I set those up on my five large tomato plants.



It was blazing hot today, but the boys still continued on with their welding and cutting today on the work bench.







This is going to be one heckuva work bench I tell ya!

I forgot to mention that "BJ" brought me some bamboo today. I am very excited to make some posts, stakes, etc. out of this natural homegrown plant/tree!
Here is what it looked like BEFORE I got a hold of it:



And this is the AFTER photo... after I ninja-fied it w/ an old dirty machete!

Pole Beans Stringing and Work Bench Construction- Part 2

Saturday was another productive day at the farm... Hubby and "BJ" spent all day cutting, grinding and welding up the support legs/arms for the new work bench/shelves. Hubby is an excellent layout man and "BJ" is a grade-A welder!!















All the while the boys were playing with their tough toys in the barn, I was working in the garden. It was time to wire up the racks for the cherry tomatoes to run up. I used my old wire racks from yester-years cherry tomatoes (grown on our back deck up in the City) and tied them together into a continuous rack for our four cherry tomato plants. Then, cut up pieces from our spool of light gage wire we got up at the feed store.





Next up was stringing up the cables for the pole beans to run up too. Boy, this project of zig-zigging the baling twine seem to take forever! The twine had a putrid stench and felt like prickly insulation... plus factor in the baking sun.









Hubby even came out at one point in the afternoon to help/get in on the action!



The final product looks great!

Staking the Pole Beans & Work Shop Construction - Part 1

Thursday was another glorious day off from work for us at Wilsons Farms. Hubby decided to spend the day painting his workshop area in the barn. This took most of the day...



As you can see, he had some great support/help along the way!



Later in the evening after we ate supper and temperature dropped a few degrees, we started setting the posts and wiring for staking our pole beans. We used some leftover T-posts that we had from when we had some barbed-wire fencing installed several years ago. We worked until it was so dark, we could not see the garden anymore!









Final shots of the completed workshop paint job!