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We got rained out today. I had things to plant but not in the rain.

Makes me want to be 30 years younger with today's best cameras...

I've put some lost hens do to very old age in their chicken years and put them out for the buzzards to dine on. I will cover them with dirt tomorrow and let them compost before tilling in.

We got several cart loads of used pine shaving dumped on a garden area that are well saturated with chicken manure. They will get spread and tilled in for a tomato patch come spring.

I got took too from FB. Never again. China. Never Again.

I mowed down an area for a winter garden of greens to share with the chickens. Mostly mustard and turnips. If they get to buggy for us to eat the chickens will like them even more.

Bought my wife a brand new 14qt jar capacity deluxe canner that has never been used. We normally pressure can everything. Even tomatoes.

I mowed between the rows of blueberries and blackberries getting the area ready for some fall greens. We would really like to freeze and maybe try canning some mustard, turnip, and collard greens this fall.

My wife uses her attachment often. Hers is flawless so far and she has used it for lot of things she has dehydrated and then vacuum sealed in jars as well as buying large bulk bags of staples like rice and flour and storing them vacuum sealed.

I'm going out to add a hose to reach the tomatoes so I don't have to use a bucket. Maybe that will make it rain.

The beautiful parent of those nasty horn worms eating at my tomatoes. It is what it is and I'm on a mission to lesson the Hummingbird Moths tonight again.

I think as dry as it is I'm waiting until it rains to stir any soil. I don't want to expose any moisture left to the air and lose it.

Watered the container garden

80% chance of rain Saturday and Tuesday. Believe it when I feel it.

The problem is the bending down no longer works very well. I saw the trails of droppings but still no worms. Can't use sevin on them as I want the chickens to have their treats.

I watered the tomatoes and dill earlier this afternoon and after dark went out to the tomatoes and used a flashlight to try and find the hornworms. Not a single one dared to come out tonight. Maybe again early in the morning they might be out. If not I'm going to get really mean with those...

can you drill a starter hole for the eye first?

In the late 40's I walked behing my grandpa in his fields that he worked from start to finish with a mule. He never owned a tractor. My uncle made movies of me walking behind him as he cranked on a backpack duster filled with DDT. Vegetables had top be pretty and clean or now one would buy...

I put out some old eggs in the area not planted for the crows. They have been doing a great job of keeping the hawks chased a way from the free ranging chickens.

While in the garden today I saw that I had better prune and trellis the few tomatoes that I did plant. I need to hoe and mulch them first.