Where have we been? Wow, springtime is busy around here. Besides work, play, Cub Scouts, RAGBRAI, there is farm work to be done as well. Actually, the farm work started a month ago here in the basement. Reagan started seeds for tomatoes, peppers, onions, herbs, flowers, and a few other things. Once the ground was thawed, we also seeded our lettuce, spinach, peas, onions sets, black eyed peas, beans, squashes, and a couple of hop vines.

Instead of a large garden, we are going with the stripe method. I planned it to alternate a width of the tiller, a width of the mower, etc.. We thought this would be a good system to easy access everything, and not have to worry about mulching the walking paths. After all, we have plenty of room.

The gardens are started on the SE corner of the property, surrounded by a 25 foot buffer strip of lawn. BTW, see the car on one side of the corn crib, and the tractor on the other. That’s right, this is farm country. It’s only parked on the property line. It appears they had worked the surrounding fields today.
It took me a few days to ‘rip up’ some grass to make a patch for corn and sunflowers. This patch is out in front of the barn. I can’t wait until I can take a picture of the barn, with a row of sunflowers sitting in front of it.

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