Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

We have such a short window to grow lettuce type plants here as we normally don't have much of a spring and the hot weather turns lettuce bitter. The weather was perfect this year although we didn't plant a lot. Enough for us to get several pickings and also give the neighbors some.

 

[Baymule]

That is some pretty lettuce!

 

[CntryBoy777]

Mom had the same problem there in Mississippi....that is what spurred her to using remee over her cool weather crops in early Spring and again the late fall....it did help some, but some yrs it is just too many hrs below freezing.....

 

[Mike CHS]

The 10 ewe lambs are still skittish but they are getting better. Watching them I can tell that is is one ewe lamb that is causing them to stay that way so I have been working on her. I let them on some fresh grass this morning and confirmed she was the lead when I called them in for feed this afternoon and she was the lead.

I moved the main herd back to fresh grass in the paddock that had the fence wrecked by the airborne dog kennel and they were happy as the crabgrass was a foot and a half high.

 

[Baymule]

You have the prettiest pastures I think I have ever seen. I have lofty aspirations of my pastures looking as good as yours someday.

 

[Mike CHS]

You have the prettiest pastures I think I have ever seen. I have lofty aspirations of my pastures looking as good as yours someday.

I still spend a good bit of time walking the paddocks cutting and spraying the thistle before it blooms. As @thistlebloom can verify they are beautiful when they bloom but I went from 18 acres of almost solid thistle to a handful in each paddock.

Teresa is going to work a couple of hours for the first time since this chaos started so I took out 4 slabs of ribs yesterday to do on the smoker today.

We are taking advantage ofall of the vendors we deal with offering free shipping so we haven't been inside a store for quite awhile. Even TSC is doing curbside pickup so we don't even go in for dog food.

 

[thistlebloom]

Spray away, I don't feel threatened Mike!

 

[Mike CHS]

I helped the neighbor cut his grass. There is a bit of weeding to do in the bed where I'm putting my okra starts and I just put some ribs on the smoker.

 

[drstratton]

I helped the neighbor cut his grass. There is a bit of weeding to do in the bed where I'm putting my okra starts and I just put some ribs on the smoker.
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That's making me hungry just looking at it!

 

[Mike CHS]

This spring is all over the place. Less than two weeks ago we had frost and this afternoon, we ate our first peaches.

We got all of the 18 sweet peppers planted and another couple of tomato plants and some basil. The only starts we have left are some Spaghetti, Delicata, and Butternut Squash. We planted a lot of radishes around our tomato plants since they will be ready to eat before the tomatoes get a lot of size to them.

We usually plant a couple of hot peppers but we checked our canned goods the other day and we still have 4 quarts of Jalapenas left from last season.