Farm report
Great weekend for working, and if I hadn't had obligations late Sunday, I might have gotten the field work caught up. As it was, I cleaned out and mulched the trees in back and applied Tanglefoot against slugs. I hoed and fertilized the corn, replanting the holes in the stand. Not sure what I will do about the mangels, which are spotty at best, with only one section where I could identify plants well enough to hoe around. I put some more plants in the garden, and started clearing up the mess from my first too-early plantings. Don't trust the books, trust the weeds; they'll tell you when things will germinate. I had my first official crop failure, the German Butterball potatoes, which are packets of watery white slime, and are being replaced with Red Pontiacs because that's what I can get locally. Rusty gave up on the idea of using the pop-up camper as a chicken house, and sold it cheap to get it moved out of there. She's also planning on selling most of the Silkies.
I also bred the rabbit Sat. I put her in again several hours later "to make sure", and again Sunday morning, and she wasn't having any, so I guess she's settled.
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