Took the day off of work and borrowed CR’s pickup to get some stuff done.
First, went over to CR’s to get the truck. He had put the 25 steel fenceposts in it that we had talked about previously. They are for putting up the fence around the garden.
While I was over there, I loaded 14 bales of straw in the back. Those are for general mulching purposes and specifically for covering the newspaper we put down around the potatoes we plant on top of sod.
After unloading that stuff back at our place, I drove the pickup up to the county leaf composting site on the other side of town, 4-5 miles away. There, a county worker with a loader dumped a load of composted leaves in the back of the truck. Cost me $10. It’s quite wet and heavy because of the rain we’ve had in the last couple of days. It looks pretty much like dirt — you could not identify the materials from which it was made.
Then I drove back home and unloaded it. I put several wheelbarrows full on top of the newly-planted potatoes, since the dirt and wood chips I had previously put on top of the potatoes and cardboard/newspaper was too thin. I put one wheelbarrow on the little bed outside the back door, and I spread the rest on the garden. I was able to back right up to the edge of the garden and fling it onto a good part of it from the back of the pickup. I used the wheelbarrow to get it to the rest of the garden.
That was a lot of work.
Later on, I worked on the fence. Put the little gate in and drove most of the fenceposts.
I noticed that one of the larger tomato plants has flower buds on it. I’m tempted to plant at least a couple of our many tomato plants in the garden and come up with a clever means of easily protecting them from frost…but it’s still very early.
Ending and Beginning 
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