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Planting Frenzy


Planting Frenzy
Originally uploaded by mikeysklar
I've been sick for three days now. Wendy leaves town tomorrow and a huge order of plants arrived today from Peaceful Valley. We ended up working over 10 hours in 80 degree weather. In short we are exhausted. Here is the list of what we accomplished today.

- cleaned up asparagus bed
- hacked up dead female mulberry
- transplanted evergreen
- planted (10) asparagus stalks
- planted (40) strawberry plants
- planted (2) blueberry bushes
- planted (2) olive trees

This takes us a extra long time since most of New Mexico has sand, rock, or clay for "soil". We have primarily sand. We have to sift out the rocks for each planting and add compost and peat moss. Plus everything needs to be mulched to hold water. It is a tricky business trying to be a desert farmer. Sometimes I think it would make sense to learn the binary language of moisture evaporators.
Asparagus Bed Preparation Hacking the Mulberry Planting the Olive Trees Blueberry Bush Asparagus Crowns

4 comments:

Rick said...

Well good luck with the new transplants. We lucked into a preexisting patch of asparagus when we bought our place and love the stuff. And I am so jealous of the olive trees as well. Me, I shoveled snow all day.We got 6 inches in just 3 hours today.

Chuck Z. Vespucci said...

Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programing binary load lifters very similar to your vaporators in most respects.

Heather said...

You're looking like real farmers now - bone weary! But those strawberries will bring you sweetness and joy and you will forget you were ever tired.

Mikey Sklar said...

I'm glad someone caught onto the star wars line at the end of the post. Really how hard would it be to program binary moisture evaporators and load lifters? Do they really need a fully autonomous robot like C3PO for that?