/* following added for openID */

Diary of a Boy Gardener

We are in the Berkshires, the beautiful rolling hills of western Massachusetts where the season is short and the frosts sometimes win. Visit Sally and David's Gardens and see how two old farts spend their time helping what plants they can find their place in this world.

My Photo
Name: David
Location: Hinsdale, Massachusetts, United States

Retired Service Engineer. Installed and repaired diagnostic x-ray equipment. Trained and supported others doing the same thing.

Saturday, June 15, 2002

This is Friday's BLOG. It was fully intended to be posted last night, but when I got to the sign in page I started reading a few of the blogs on the recent post list and before I knew it I was surfing for so long I forgot why I had sat down in the first place.
Anyway, the weather has been and will continue to be chilly and overcast, with rain showers persisting. This has been very good for transplanting, so Sally has been doing a lot of that. Second rounds of seeds have gone in (she loves her peas) and lots of stuff has been potted up. We have been using some of the soil from the excavation (see 6/11 entry) mixed with some compost for all those pots. We decided that we will do the whole driveway and area between cottage and house with new stone, which means we will flag down farmer Ronnie and have him run his tractor bucket a few inches deep thru the area. We will wait until after the picnic.
David raked up a lot of grass from the Thurs mow and put it next to the compost pile where it can then be used to mulch the vegetable beds, which are gonna need it soon in this weather. He then finally cleaned around the three trees (one triple birch and two maples). One of the maples had multiple trunks which had their tops removed last year and finally got trimmed down to ground level so they don't look so weird. Then to basement (raining hard) to clean up and install the new stackable dado on the saw. Just as David was about to do some test strips to see how wide the various combinations of blades cut, Sally found that her friend would not be taking her to the movies after all, and so the two of them were off to the mall.
After the show they stopped at the first ever Hinsdale Farmer's Market (Fri 4-7 pm) where they found Barb, her husband and three tents set up. Barb is enthusiastic about the amount of traffic that came thru, given the cold and showery afternoon.
Later...

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home