We must fence the garden and the berry/apple tree area. Chickens help themselves to tomatoes, Swiss chard, disturb the root systems, peck strawberries, peck baby squash, and eat our blueberries before we get to them. Deer are eating the fruit trees, blueberry plants, and Iris' rose plant.
We must plant tomatoes farther apart. Ack. No wonder the chickens are getting more tomatoes than we are. I can't even find where one tomato starts and the next begins. Harvesting tomatoes require small fingers for they are wedged in between stems and branches.
We need to tie the tomatoes and/or build decent trellis for tomatoes. They have so many heavy green fruit that they collapse before they ripen. Metal tomato cages are ugly.
Hook up drip irrigation system. Oh, how easy watering could be!
It's time to plant again! Carrots, onions, cover crops. Cut back borage. Is it the right time? It's ugly.
How do we preserve the artichokes? I want them to come back next Spring.
Till soil along cyclone fence for cover crops. Daikon radish and Austrian peas are coming in the mail. Alfalfa for goats is going in the field. I can weed no longer. Let nitrogen fixing plants come and help. Thanks Nichols Nursery!
Be not afraid of machinery. The plow will not kill our soil, nor will it compact too badly. It's a little BCS. If only I could use it.
