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You see all that rain that was all rain we got the other night that made that little little Lake out there so I am clearing out this bed for planting peas and I have to clear the opposite side just about a couple inches out or like a foot or two out um
So the weeds don’t creep right on top of the plants cuz the plants are planted like on the fence line and so I need to keep that grass from creeping back in and with all this rain that we had we had like 7 in in one night uh it made
The ground very easy to work so I am wanting to get as much weeding done as possible while the ground is soft so this actually will go pretty quick pretty fast because it’s such a just a long narrow thing of weeds to pull out but
Um I’m thinking what I want to do with this side of the fence cuz this is the outside of the garden is I’m going to just go ahead and until like a bed on this side I think is what I want to do and then fill it with flowers because
This back portion of the gate um of the garden does not get water it doesn’t have water run out to it and it’s hard to get a hose out here and so it usually just sits pretty um pretty um unwatered most of the year so that is why it’s
Good for peas early in the year when it’s cool and it’s easy to get water out here and the plants aren’t struggling I could get some zenas planted out here for the summer so then there would be a pop of color it be really pretty there’ be a lot of them hopefully fingers
Crossed and um it wouldn’t matter as much with the watering cuz it’s just for ornamental purpose and to be honest with you the zenas have grown back here on their own a couple of years and so they’ve just popped up and they’ve done really well and so I’m hoping I’m kind
Of hoping I’m banking on that luck that um I should end up with that again we are supposed to drop into freezing weather again this weekend um it’s going to get down to like 32 again so you know maybe this will be the last cold snap
Maybe it won’t but either way um I need to go ahead and get the spring stuff just planted and done so I can focus on the summer things because really um this is kind of the point where I would like to have all of the um Tomatoes started
And I don’t so I’m going to get the spring stuff planted so I can quit thinking about it and just focus all of my energy and attention onto getting the tomatoes started getting the eggplants and the peppers started because I would have liked to have those started a lot
Earlier so it’d be nice to go ahead and be able to get this one off my plate and focus on the other I do still really want to plant some morning glories this year and I recently found I did not realize apparently morning glories are very very toxic and I always thought
That they had a toxic coating on them but apparently what it is they do put a coating on the seeds and it’s because morning glories are like narcotic and if you take if you act like all plants parts of the plant are poisonous and I did I just didn’t know that so he
Learned something every day my sister found that one out I was just gonna plant them up on that Arch this year like I planned last year but they had died on me last year because they got basically root rot from too much rain so I think what I’ll try and do this year
Is I have some containers in front and I’m going to put them in the containers so then that way if they become a problem they can be moved around so that way if the chickens somehow get into them or um which the chickens would only get into them if they
Um it’s high enough off the ground I think it’ll be okay so we’ll have to we’ll have to wait and see but I think that’s what I’m going to do with those containers next to the arch and then the arch I’ll just have to see if I can find
Like I know they have like blackeyed Susan Vines and stuff like that so maybe I could find something that um is trailing or climbing that I could put on it that’s not toxic to the chickens just in case if the chickens get into it because even though I’ll plant it on the
Inside of the garden it will still kind of push out through the fence so I want to make sure that whatever it is it’s not toxic for chickens I don’t usually like I’ve every year I try a little harder to make a fall garden and to make
A spring garden and try and be on top of it and so maybe that’s something that I’ll get better at I’m hoping I say maybe that’s something I hope that I’ll get better at as time goes on because I always feel like I throw myself I just like throw myself
Full on um into the summer garden and then I’m so wiped out that I kind of neglect the fall garden and so you know I would really like to be in better shape this year with um seed starting because it’s it’s one of those things where you have to
Put yourself in the mindset for it and when you come off of all the harvesting and the preserving and stuff you don’t really think oh I need to go start cabbage seeds for the fall Garden but you really do by the time at least for us and like maybe like in August towards
The end of August you need to start your um or well July or August towards the end of July or August you need to start some fall crops and getting those prepared to be planted out um you know that kind of thing so maybe I’ll do that
Maybe I’ll do that this year um I’m definitely going to try and do that with our onions because I have enough onion seeds to choke a horse with goodness knows um so those don’t last super long they don’t have a super long shelf life onion seeds they last I think I think
Three years is kind of like being generous but really their dates about two years and the thing about onion seeds is that seeds don’t really go bad but the longer you have them the lower their germination rate goes and so onion seeds are just something that’s particularly fra fragile and so if you
Hold on to a bunch of onion seeds for a long time most of those seeds are not going to germinate so you really want to continue to grow and save your onion seeds regularly every year as much as you can I think I’ll let the chickens
Out to roam and pick at the ground because with all that rain it turned their run and the run’s tarped off at the top but the end’s open so it’s not fully tarped off and so it just turned into like a mud pit it was unbelievable it’s like the chickens were mud
Wrestling it was terrible and they went to bed super super early last night because it was just miserable bless their souls and um so I think today would do them good to get out and to get their feet on some fresh grass um which I know our grass is
Still mainly brown right now but it’s starting to Green up the only spot in the yard that I really don’t know what to do about is where I’m going to plant the corn and that’s because I’m going to plant it out there you can see like kind of where those orange Flags
Right there that one that orange flag um that is just a mess of overgrown weeds we didn’t Harvest our corn and it went to seed so I saved it so we’ll see how that goes didn’t it was a happy accident I didn’t mean for it to go to seed but
It did so I saved it but either way so I saved all the corn seed and then all of our blackeyed peas uh were the only be that survived I planted pinto beans black beans and black eyed peas and the pinto beans and the black beans didn’t
Come up and then the Black Eyed Peas came up beautiful they did like they always do they put on a beautiful show just the most gorgeous thing ever and we never got around to harvesting them they ended up just going to seed out there and just dying so that whole
Thing basically got tilled up and planted last year and then I didn’t put a foot in it since like it’s just been there there were some watermelons we did eat some watermelon out of there in fact yesterday when I was walking the dog I found a melon out there and it was just
A melon just a watermelon out there and I was like okay it must have just rolled out of the weeds it was crazy that space right there is going to need a lot of TLC and I’m kind of thinking I’ll just go through and I just need to make sure
There’s no like cinder blocks or anything weird sitting out there because there is one sitting out there and I don’t know why it’s over there so either way I need to make sure there’s nothing out there remove the flags just make sure it’s as cleaned out as it can be
And then just run the tractor through it with the big old box blade on the back and just till it all up and start again now I will say on the far end which that would be like there on the screen right there on the far end that is all of the
Blackeyed peas the great thing about blackeyed peas is that when they die like that so anytime you’re dealing with a lagoon so if you’re talking peanuts um I’m pretty sure peas are like this blackeyed peas are like this bush beans pull beans those are all nitrogen fixers
And they will put a bunch of nitrogen into your soil so if you actually allow them to die in the ground they release the most nitrogen when they do that so if you’re wanting your blackeyed peas to put in a lot of nitrogen then after you harvest off them
If you just leave the plants until they die in the winter they will release the most nitrogen that is when the most nitrogen is released into the soil is through the dying process really a lot of gardening is a lot of um it it’s hold it’s making plants but
Holding them very Loosely like that’s really what gardening is you want to have a general idea of what you’re doing and kind of a general plan but you want to be able to say okay that didn’t work here’s my backup plan like it’s almost like everything you do you have a backup plan
For so I don’t got a backup plan for the corn though the corn if the corn dies the corn if the corn seed isn’t any good then I’ll have to go to the store and get some corn seed and then if the uh soil’s bad well the soil is bad you just
Got to keep working it that takes it’s just an Ever something you ever have to do I guess it’s like why did you do this to me Adam why’ you have to go eat that Apple I toil with the soil all right so you can see we just
Cleared all of this down here and I had cleared this earlier but I did that so that grass wouldn’t grow right into to the roots while they were trying to grow um but maybe later down the road I’ll try and widen this like when I say later
Down the road you know earlier like soon preferably sooner than later I’ll widen that for some flowers it’s like as soon as the sun goes down you can just feel the temperature Drop Like 10° it’s crazy thank you all so much for tuning in with me today I really do appreciate
It I hope you all have a wonderful wonderful rest of your day and I will see you all later bye-bye
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Looking good