Finally tonight William and I were able to get into the garden and planted some of the plants that have been living in the greenhouse for around 3 months. Now I know that I’ve got a lot of some of the plants, and we tried really hard not to plant all of them. So for now the one things that are planted are tomatoes, kohlrabies (TONS left to plant), peppers, and onions (also TONS left to plant). But it was good to get it started even thought it’s not all done. I also picked up some bird netting from the farm store tonight when I was in town. When I went into the store there was a new guy helping me and when I asked for bird netting he said if that’s what it was called? So when I told him that you put it over your stuff in the garden so the birds don’t get to it, he said he never heard of such a thing. Then while we were walking up to the cash register, he pulled out some netting from one of those aisle displays and I said that it was perfect! That’s what I was looking for. After he rolled his eyes at me, he said that it’s called a produce netting for birds. Now I did not have the best day today, and I’m wondering to myself if this guy really want’s to go at it with me? But I just smiled and said .. OK, and took it to the counter and paid for it. The reason that I needed it was because Lucky the peacock is thinking that the strawberry patch is some kind of a fruit smorgasbord and is eating the strawberries as soon as they get close to getting ripe. But for now, the garden is tilled and some plants are in, and I’m feeling pretty good about it all.
After spending time in the garden, I worked on putting a whole lot of mulch down in some of the flower beds, I realized that I’m going to need about twice as much again of the mulch before I’ll be done. And I know that I should probably weed the areas first before I lay the mulch down, but what the heck. My plan is the put the mulch down and then use Round up if any of the weeds come through. That just sounds like a great plan to me.
And finally I wanted to go on a run tonight to get ready for our towns 5K tomorrow night. But after I looked at our gravel roads, I realized that going both east and west from our farm has brand new gravel on it and I didn’t want to roll my ankle before tomorrow. To be honest I didn’t want to ever roll my ankle. So after a soaking bath, I found a glass of wine, some beef jerky, and some Ruffles – Sour Cream and Onion, and I am going to call it a night. I’m pretty sure that it’s not the supper of ‘Champions’ but since it’s around 9:30 pm and it’s the easiest, it’s what I’m calling supper tonight.