We have been in a buying mood or rather an exicted about farming mood. On the way home from mine and farmdad's little time off, we stopped and looked at a used but good condition 75 by 32 foot greenhouse. This will triple our amount of greenhouse growing space. Our adult son farmboy is doing a farmer's market and we will contribute things for him to sell. He just bought his first tractor and had a hugh grin on his face for days. A boy after my own heart. Actually I have never driven a tractor, but I asked farmdad about it and he told me he would show me how to use ours. that it is easy. Anyway so now we have more greenhouse space. Then on Friday we went and bought 50 plus fruit trees. Before you think we are rich, I need to tell you I bought the fruit trees with my IRA money. I cashed it in. I have more faith in the fruit then the economy. We have a great site for them near the house that my hunny bun built 8 years ago. I have hired two men who work for the nursery to cut up for firewood the downed trees on the acre and to machete the briars and then to plant the trees. I should get alot of leaf mold as this is virgin land and those trees have been shedding leaves for centuries. I could get a shovel full of dirt with literally no sweat. it was definitely fun. We got 6 cherries, 6 pears, 6 plums and 25 apples of all varieties some heirlooms. I am really into heirlooms right now.
Then on Sat. the whole farm family worked outside all morning cleaning up a winters worth of trash and junk from a family of 12 whose children act like little piglets. That afternoon farmdad and I and farm sil and athlete boy put the plastic back on the existing greenhouse, dug up daffidil bulbs from the pasture that used to be a flower bed and replanted them in the new flower bed. Then we put 3 pounds of vidalia, white and yellow storage onions in one of my 4 by 8 beds on 3 inch centers. Hope they are not too close. Athelete boy cleaned out the chicken pen. It was one of those 65 degree thank the Lord you are on the earth and still strong enough to work days. My adult farm boy son brought his new tractor up to show us it's stuff. He plowed enough to double our garden space. Now I have a big corn patch and will put peaches and cream with some corn field beans and some good corn to grind into cornmeal later this year. the other patch will have beans including several different kinds of heirlooms like Kentucky Wonder and Turkey craw. He also did a new patch of ground for the new greenhhouse. Our new dirt looked so pretty. Just the right texture and just the right color.
Oh yeah my body hurts because my mind works like a 25 year old but my body can't get over the fact it is almost 60.
well bye
Vicki
PS After ruling out a golf cart [ too slow] and a [ they are too expensive], I have decided to buy a 4-wheeler for me. Is that not exciting for an almost 60 year old woman. It will be an automatic as i can not switch the gears on the others and it will have a neat cart to go with it. It will be used but good condition.