Journal Entry 2016-12-23

Gardening in Middle Tennessee

I left my December book at work, so here I am with the January book.  Got a  break from the 20° F weather.  Nice 60° F day to day.  Rain is predicted for tomorrow.

• Went to get mulch but they were closed.  Hopefully they are opened on Monday.
• Began pulling crab grass - endless  chore.
• Set out two sets of mulch four pathways -needs to be thicker, but it’s a start.
• Much of the mulch from last year is showing signs of decomposition.  Good thing I have an unlimited source of free stuff.
• Chickens enjoying being out and about.  Nice day.  Hope they became rewarding be with lots of eggs soon!  People at work are waiting.
• $47.00 for 3 bales pine shavings and two bags of food.
• Need fencing for the garden for next year - chickens and then the addition of new puppies.  Yes, new puppies, German Shepherd brothers.  Been a long time since we had puppies.  Scout came to us as a nearly one year old.
• Finally got are bound to buying some permanent tags for my trees.  Just in time, too.  Some of them have already lost their original tags.  I have a map, so I’m pretty sure which one is which.  Copper tags that you write on with an old ball point pen.  Probably need more.  
• Can’t find my plant labels.  Still unpacking things from Nevada.
• I’ve got some inadvertent compost tea.  Need to aerate it and have it go aerobic.  Probably be good for all my trees.
• Happy to have gotten to enjoy this a lovely day, even if I spent most of it sleeping.  To go outside and not be bundled up was a pleasure.
• Still struggling with waiting to plant seeds in January and February.  Could it be a lifelong problem. I’ve be an writing about this affliction for over a decade and hasn’t seemed to have gotten any better.
• Put all my tree inventories in two Evernote.  Slowly getting my act together.  Another lifelong endeavor.

Lessons learned

• Making bean packets for each tree was awesome.
• Not keeping them weeded meant we didn’t eat a single bean.
• Will I really be able to retire at 65?  Will we really have the house paid off by then?

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Journal Entry 2014-12-04

Gardening in Middle Tennessee

Cannot believe it is already December! We have seriously begun looking at homes. I really, really want a lot of acres; however, also need extreme Internet, affordable mortgage, and a commute that won’t kill me. So we are looking at a four acre lot in town in a neighborhood. I’ve been playing with the plat map. I could do a lot with this.

[Note 2017-12-07: We bought it in 2015!]

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Journal Entry 2013-12-29

Gardening in Middle Tennessee
Sunday
Starts my January Book.

Last week found that my last Farmers Market sweet potato had sprouted - so of course, I couldn't cook it - had to put it in a cup of water.

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Journal Entry 2012-12-07

Gardening in Middle Tennessee

Treasures lost and found. Many things of sentimental and monetary value wer sold half or lost or just tossed along the way as we migrated to what we hope is the Promised Land.  Sometimes I mourned them.  But still, they are only "things."  The important things, for the most part, however, made the treck.  And one of my most prize -my seed collection.  I wonder, did pioneer women long ago clutched tightly to their packets of seeds, training and praying for land to plant them in?  A small handful of bean seeds more precious than gold.  So here is a list of my treasures, hauled 2200 miles from the high desert mountains of rural Nevada.

[Note 2018-12-12: The list is extensive.  Perhaps someday I will transcribe them here, but it contains several hundred entries.]

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Journal Entry 2010-12-05

Gardening in the High Desert

• Deep watered orchard trees
• Watered garlic & beds 1 - 3
• Watered new beds - hoping to encourage wee germination - then can till in to both kill weeds and add organic matter to sand
• Added one 5 gal bucket sweet smelling compost to two different beds.  There is a lot more to put out.  Then clean coop and start another batch of good stuff  

[Note 2018-12-12: Ah, the year of the 400 garlic bulbs...]

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Journal Entry 2012-12-09

Gardening in Middle Tennessee
Filled the bird feeder twice this week. Need to buy some chicken scratch two makes in with the sunflower seeds. Will attract different thirds – and be much cheaper, two. I have a lot of seeds that are six years or older. I should do a germination test.

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