I finally started on the lower garden. Considering I have put all my gardening energy into the upper garden since March... this garden is in sincere need of help. I am thinking we didn't plant it last year, either. Every time I looked at it so far this year I felt overwhelmed and tired. Today was no different, except that Brianna proclaimed that the strawberries were quite tasty and she was on her way to pick them. I was done with mulching the upper garden, so wandered down to see how the berries looked. She had a bowl of smallish - sweet berries picked. I got to looking around and decided I needed to take my husband's advice and take the weed whacker to the place. Then I took it a step farther and used the lawnmower to cut down the weeds between the rows... AH! Looked so much better already!
The kids have been dumping all the manure from the horse in the first row of the garden. They had almost filled in a whole row with manure four feet wide. Dear hubby had said that it would take a backhoe to till the garden because the soil is hard and compacted. Forget that! I don't have a backhoe... and I am not about to try tilling it myself. SO, I left the manure right where it was - supplementing the corners with generous helpings from another pile. Then, I mowed all the orchard and lawns and dumped all the clippings on the manure bed. I am downright exhausted! I look like a weed. BUT the new garden bed looks so promising! Of course, it needs a ton more help. I feel like I have turned into an organic material scavenger. Grass, hay, straw, manure, barn litter, leaves, peat moss, compost - you name it, I use it!
Ohh... and I have some ideas for fixing up the old, ugly yellow barn. Better keep that secret 'till I can manage to actually try out some ideas.
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Posted by Schatzi on Friday, May 30, 2008 at 04:29 - Link
Love your blog...will check back soon....blessings for a great harvest.
Being exhausted sure feels good some days, though, eh?
I went to the doctor today... had quite a bit of blood drawn for blood tests. The first gal couldn't find my veins... she was looking for them... mine are deep... the second gal found it easily, but said, yah, you can't see them, but they are here. So, I will have results back next week to tell me what way they are leaning... she doesn't think hormones at all (stating I didn't have the key markers for that) , so didn't test that, but said she would if these came back normal. She admitted hormones weren't her thing... so if I decide to go that route, I'll likely need a new doctor. She's doing general tests on my liver and kidney function, anemia, blood sugar, and thyroid. She said if they were all normal she was going to diagnose it depression... and stated that since I was coming out of the post partum depression... that likely may be the ultimate culprit... but she thinks it is my thyroid because I am cold and my ability to handle stress is low... We will see. I'll keep you updated.
