More planting, more teeth gnashing.

You really have to be physically fit sometimes to get some gardening done...

Yes, wonderful grape vines transplanted from the front of the house (thank you again Diedra). A thankless and backbreaking task. I hope the roots survived the digging.

Put in some Karina Pea seeds this morning. I have 4 squares with 9 seeds each. They should start coming up by this weekend. I also put in a new square of carrots, the first square still has not germinated yet. Still waiting.

A stroll through the old stumping grounds.

I pulled up two good 'ol stumps this weekend, took me a whole after noon. I have 2 more to go. After a while I felt pretty dizzy hitting the roots with an axe. Gatorade to the rescue!

Stump 1:

Stump 2:

Pieces of 8s, pieces of 8s.... squaaaaak!

Built a 4x4 and a 1x8 box using 2x8 boards for my SFG (whew!) I'm always puzzled when looking a pictures of SFG's, the 4x4 boxes never look exactly right when the grid is put on. So I thought I'd make my box as a 4x8 on the inside.

2 - 4' board

2 - 4'3" board

Screwed in together the right way will give a true 4x4 box.

Here is the result:

And finally after much slogging, sloshing and getting the shoes totally muddy from a leaky hose and a dirt ground, I managed to put in my soil mix and put in transplants from our friend Dedra (such a sweet girl).

Garlic, onions, radicchio and chicory. From seed: carrots, radishes.

Poop and scoop.

I got my ingredients for the dirt I will use in my SFG.

2x cow manure

5x sheep manure (I was supposed to get 5 different types but nobody has anything else)

1x Perlite (4cu/ft)

1x Peat Moss (3.8 cu/ft)

1x landscape fabric.

Pressed play on my remote.

Working on my new garden was put on pause because of some bad luck. A couple of weeks ago I did some work in the SFG area and noticed that I had an electrical crimp stuck in my tractor's tire. I couldn't find the flat fixer anywhere but I finally found a mesh I could use to fix it.

Here is the flat: before.

You can't really see it but it right to the ground. I managed to pull the crimp out and now ready with the tools (see the crimp).

Muahahaha: Burn! And fixed!

Seedlings are like cactus'

I almost lost 3 trays of seedlings last week. I decided to go on a transplanting binge and move the tomato, a few herbs and many of the marigolds into larger trays so they could strengthen their roots. I added water, lots of water, too much water! Two days after, everything looked dead and dying, I was so devastated by this.

Gord from work told me that I over-watered and to let them dry out with a fan ( but I don't have one) and they may come back.

Well, I'm glad to announce that only 3 tomato seedlings died and the rest are bouncing back, it took a while. The Marigolds look terrible though, they lost their top leaves from wilting and over saturation. I did a check this morning on them and I found FLOWER BUDS! Coolio!!!