Woke up to it raining yesterday morning and we had .37 inches in the gauge and got another .05 before it quit mid morning. Later in the day we found that the rains had washed a ton of pollen down which had collected all around and is a portent of the blitz that is to come.
Once the rains cleared off and I had taken R to school I headed out to the garden to get seeds in the ground. First I had to add emitters to a couple of rows as they were on 2 foot spacing. I added in the ones to make it 1 foot spacing.
One row got a mix of German Giant radishes and Rodelika carrots, a row of celery, a row of each kale, and a row of cabbage. It took me about 45 minutes to get the 5 rows seeded.
I went in the house to check on seeds for the next rows and found that my cucumber seed supply was far to low so I had to put in an order with Territorial Seeds. I picked up 3 types of cucumber, 2 types of basil, 2 types of kale, and one type each of sunflower and marigolds. I may end up a day or two later than I want for getting the cucumbers all in the ground.
After picking up the boys from school I spent the afternoon getting the summer squash seeds in the ground. I have seven 50 foot rows packed with these 8 different quash. I picked over 2000 pounds of summer squash last year with having 2 rows shortened so this year I hope to top that. I had picked 785 cucumbers and this year I will get well more than a 1000 with the extra rows I will be planting.
While I was in the garden the bald eagles were fighting off invading juveniles overhead and they were screeching and battling with it as it tried to invade their nest. They eventually chased it off and went back to the nest as a pair.
The peas are trying to send tendrils out in search of something to climb so I had to get the fence up on the rows. Two t-posts got put in the middle of the row then I put up 3 foot fence on each for now. Once they are climbing it then I can install the next row as needed.
Finally after 5pm I got the call my tiller was almost here. I drove out to the corner to meet the truck as box trucks can't make it into the farm. I'm sure the drivers like it much better this way too.
Shortly I had my tiller unloaded from the truck and ready to put together, which was rather minimal.
Handle, clutch cable, kill switch, shift lever, oil, and gas and it started right up. I left the depth bar off as I never till shallow but left the side panels on. I had removed them from my old tiller as they had gotten destroyed by rocks bending them all out of shape. I drove the tiller up the hill to where I had left off with my old one and after back it out of my way I got to try my new tiller.
SO MUCH NICER!!!!!! It is still not one hand use and I am still working it from the side but it takes FAR less work to get it to till max depth even in wet-ish soil. The drive train is much stronger and the thing weighs a good bit more than my old tiller.
I made a couple passes on the upper row of the main garden then dug rocks that I had found. I parked it for the night and will be at it again today. It is soooooooo much nicer now having a new solid machine with a pretty good warranty to it.
Found that we are not having scout meetings for a couple of weeks so it gives me my Wednesday evenings for the full mandolin class which I have neglected the past couple of weeks being so busy in the garden.
Today I have tilling to do and 10 rows of beans to seed. Hopefully I can get the pole garden tilled and irrigation and plastic out on it so I can get it planted with the sunflowers and beans. I will be putting a couple rows of cucumbers in once I get the seeds in the mail.
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