Just another day

My 1500 strawberry plants. Well, everyone who said they wanted to buy some turned into just a couple.  So now I have a lot of strawberry plants.  They are beautiful with leaves and they look like I wish they had a few weeks ago when customers would take one look and reduce their order. They didn't quite get the potential that those ugly little plants had.

The cow is less depressed these days.  He got out on Thursday.  I had a visitor and the phone rang. I thought I would just check and see who it was. It was Mom. I was going to tell her I would call her back, but the first words out of her mouth was that there was a cow in my backyard!  Anyway, with some help from Dad we herded it back in the pasture and figured out where he had gotten out.  After some fence repair and a gate adjustment that Dad was so kind to perform, everything was back to normal.  Turns out that the breaker was flipped in all this rain and the fence hadn't been on.  The cow figured it out and began pushing on the fence to get to grass.  At some point he broke the wire and pushed so hard some poles were moved around.  this resulted in our gate being unable to latch anymore since the pole it latched on was to far away.  It blew open in one of the storms we've been having.  So the electric wire was repaired, the breaker was flipped back on, Dad and I discussed some repairs to the gate and poles that would make it less likely to move if a 6-700 cow were to push on it again.  My husband was going to have to do the repairs when he got home, but Dad offered to do them, which I really appreciated since its soccer and softball season and time for these projects on weeknights is short.

We planted the broccoli and Bok Choy in the garden yesterday when the rain let up a little.  It was getting burnt in the greenhouse from the hot days.

I transplanted the rest of the tomatoes into bigger pots. they were getting to big for the 4 packs they were in.  I've notices with plants that they will grow to fill the pots you put them in.  So because we want really big tomato plants to put in the ground in a month or so they needed to be transplanted!

I'm excited for the gated pipe in our pasture.  The irrigation water is on now and in a few weeks we will start watering.  We could start watering now, but our little neighborhood irrigation group has a field of alfalfa (sometimes corn) in it.  The agreement that was in place before we moved in was that the field gets water the first week or so of irrigation.  Thats not a big deal since spring rains (especially this year) make watering unnecessary.