Another Tough Lesson

Since I did not move the mobile hoop, I wanted to plant green manure.  A friend – a saint really – tilled the open area in the heat when the soil was dry and hard.  Then before planting I wheel hoed the area again.  And once I finished I planted some buckwheat Ken wanted for animal feed, but when it arrived it was not clean enough to sprout for the animals.  So, I sowed it …

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Learning By Trial and Error

I cannot do what two people used to do.  Although that may be obvious, the fact  becomes clear once again.  Last fall Ken planted garlic.   I had problems with timing of moving the greenhouse.  The garlic got tall and weeds took over.  I could not find the irrigation pump or the hoses so irrigating became problematic once the snow melted.   Today I checked.   This year’s crop is small, but the flavor strong.   Here …

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Hiring Out What Ken Did

Ken did things here that I never did.  Well, I never did them here.  When we met in 1990, I had a house in St Paul and I mowed my small level lawn with a push reel mower.  I used to joke it took anywhere from a half an hour to three hours – depending on how many of the neighbors stopped to chat.   But here Ken mowed.  First with a sickle mower attached …

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