right in early this morning I wanted to get out before anybody else is up
and today is manure day so today is a big day in the garden
this is real crucial at this time of year that I get out in the garden and I
wrote it to everything have everything looking nice and clean and we're going
to spread some manure so we're gonna spread some manure so I'm gonna show you
what it looks like menorah is really good as all natural
fertilizer for your plants and these are gonna go in the tomatoes then after I
put them in or around the tomatoes I'm going to put some shavings pine shavings
work amazing on my tomatoes so today we have a lot of work to do and I wanted to
get started before it gets really good and Lumi and dark this is great for
anything in your garden so what I'm going to do today is I'm going to put
this on the tomatoes I'm gonna take some manure from the chicken house and I'm
going to side dress my potatoes and my carrots and all of my things that are
coming up side dressing means you're just going to put a layer of it on the
side of it not on the plant directly cuz you don't want to burn it but this has
already been left to cure in other words it is not fresh manure so this is okay
to put on your tomato plants so we're gonna go do that and let's get started
so this is what the garden looks like
I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to tell the garden and get all the major
weeds that I possibly can and then we're gonna go down and I'll show you how I
work on my tomatoes now I did have little fertilizer sticks and it made a
world of a difference alright the garden is all tilled and now
we're gonna go work on putting manure on the tomatoes so there's a part there
that you see the lighter dirt that I couldn't tell that is full of carrots
and I need to by hand we'd all of that but there's all of my tomatoes and as
you can see I have really nice dirt that is very dark and Lumi and that's from
all of the leads so let's get putting some manure on the tomatoes so basically
what we're gonna do is we're going to put one scoop or a half a scoop of
manure beside each tomato plan as it rains all of this manure is going to
soak down and it's going to make my tomato plants luscious and I'm going to
show you in a week what a difference just a little bit of some dried manure
will do to your plants you can also do these in container gardening as well you
don't have to have a garden to use a little bit of this manure I'm going to
go ahead and I'm going to apply this to all 52 tomato plants alright so every
tomato plan has a scoop of kalman or now what I'm gonna do is I go ahead and I'm
adding a scoop of my pine shavings this helps me tremendously in keeping the
moisture in also ever since I started doing this I don't have any wet rot or
dry rot on my tomatoes so we're gonna take a picture
camera up front the front of my garden and everything is growing I was able
even to put some Kalman or one of my peppers so I think it looks pretty good
and I got to keep at it
so wow it doesn't look the prettiest it really does make a difference in the
amount of tomatoes you get and keeping all the moisture into the submitters
when we have a really dry hot summer in a matter of couple days the shavings
will start to turn darker and in two weeks you won't hardly even notice the
shavings but it makes a big difference I'm gonna go ahead I'm gonna weed my
carrots now carrots and you can hardly tell because of all of the weeds carrots
is something very hard to keep weed free but if you have weeds they're going to
hinder your growth of your plants weeds take vital nutrients and vital amounts
of water and when you have a lot of weeds you will not have the harvest that
you would if you kept a weed-free garden so I have to go the painstakingly
through each of the carrot plants and we are going to go ahead and we're going to
pull the weeds from them I only wanted to do this once or twice right now when
they're just starting to grow so I'll get back to when it's finished so we did
all the carrots and now I can see down the rows and what I did is just put a
little light layer of pine shavings that will also help keep the weeds down a
little - the carrots get larger
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so the garden is finished now this is the hardest part of it because this was
still the spring weeds but everything is done everything is weeded and now I'm
going to go ahead and I'm going to plant some of the perennial herbs that we
started way back in March so that's what the garden looks like
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and this is how I fill my water filter so this is my berkey water filter and I
fill it up once a week I use this water for cooking and I really really like
having it
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hi everyone it's time for Viennese diary we are on June the 18th 1943 and Fanny
writes today i canned cherries 14 courts seated and 11 court unseated it was a
very hot day
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