There seems to be a factory somewhere over there producing an endless supply of rain.
Got enough time between them to fix one strimmer, but not use it, and make a mess under the apple tree, pruning half the dead branches.
While I was doing so, two cyclists came past wearing plastic bags. There was some yelling further down the road and then they came back again, probably heading towards the village pub. A wise choice!
Them: “she’s such a dirty wh*re!”
Me: being extra dirty
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Today was annoying because it kept raining. Not all the time, just whenever I went outside.
Managed to do some weeding and pick some radishes, that's it.
The potatoes are big now and don't need much weeding anymore, just hacking away some thistles. A bunch of grass came back so it looks messy but it doesn't bother the potatoes. No problems with stickweed this year as we did not mulch around them. Works better in this wet climate.
They're starting to flower and it turns out the row spacing that seemed far too wide when planting was actually right - they're filling the space with leaves. Turns out reading scientific research on potatoes can be worthwhile.
Here's some peonies for you that grew next to that weird wooden cross standing in the garden.
Clueing up about flail mulcher attachments, because it looks like our hay meadow deal is going that way 😕
Suddenly it got very dark.
Phew, got the barn tidied up again just in time.
Also found out the exact lifting capacity of our Iseki's three point hitch - 500 kg. With a bit of OSB on top of the cement bags and the weight of the pallet forks (and pallet) I had to use brake steering as the front wheels were lifting and the rear hydraulics hitting relief pressure. Well designed balance! :)
My scrapmetal #PalletFork handled it fine and I got everything inside before the next rain front hit.
#Tractor #Iseki #Homestead #DIY #Cement #Barn #Pallet #Renovation
Finished moving the hay. The rearmost stuff was small square bales, really old ones. That can stay there for now, the back of the barn is full and the bales are easy to handle when the time comes.
To move it, I pitchforked the rest to the front of the occupied section, grabbed it with the excavator, pushed the pile along the barn floor to the back, then pitched it up into the new section and finally climbed up there to pitch it on the giant pile.
No wonder everyone switched to bales, loose hay is extremely labour intensive and very space consuming. Hence the huge barns!
Now just raking up the floor, clearing out random planks, rocks and bricks.
At least everything is biodegradable or re-usable.
Peas got tied up.
This took forever because I was scanning the garden for enough small sticks to tie the string to and then poke into the ground.
These peas are doing well so far.
The beans mostly too, two of them died but those were the "meh" seedlings that I just planted because there was space.
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