Day 20

 Mice won't be an issue for long! Get to work Mr. snake!

 What a productive day! Started out the day by putting in the trellis for the peas on the T posts (or stakes), but we didn't spend long on that before we were off to Jeff Cook field. That's the field where the cows hang out, I think there were 5 there this morning according to the neighbor, not good. While Erica and Cory weeded the onions and garlic, using the wheel hoe's to break up the ground <pause> This is as good a  time as any to mention the interns starting out last year tried to use a hoe upside down, haha oh interns!

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Now back to business, Jason and I weeded the cucumbers and this guy popped up, a cucumber beetle. They bring bacterial wilt which can take out an entire crop. We bring out the big guns on these critters, Pyrethrum which is an organic broad spectrum pesticide derived from Chrysanthemum plants. This is serious sizzerp because it kills all insects, good and bad, and in organic world you need to keep the beneficial ones. But we used small amounts on that row of cucumbers to wipe these little suckers out.
We finished weeding the zinnia's, carrots, fennel, beets, and quinoa. It's good to get the weeds early with the hoe because that prevents you from having to weed by hand later, which takes forever, bad on knees, bad on back, bad news.

I helped Cory finish up the pea trellis and we realized I was bad with measurements, or rather Cory did, I had already come to that realization, but it's now a work in progress. Started weeding when Daniel grabbed me and Erica to go do some planting in Jeff Cook field.  We planted lots of Brassica's to finish out one of the fields in Jeff Cook, I must say I'm glad the seaweed fish gut fertilizer part comes at the end of the day, otherwise my popularity around here would drop. It does help that the other people I hang out with smell like dirty pirates too.

Perfect End to my Day