Showing posts with label 08 - August To Do. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 08 - August To Do. Show all posts

08 – August – To Do – Week 3

2005

2006

2007


2005

  • DONE – buy a heavy duty sprinkler
  • Start compost bin (2006-07-01 – still not done)
  • DONE – Look at trees [what kind to buy]
  • DONE – Visit Nurseries and Garden Centers
  • DONE – Get some catalogs
  • DONE – Take more photos (2005-10-1 and 2005-10-2)

2006

  • DONE – Start withholding water and food from trees; water only one a week. Otherwise they won't harden off well for winter (once/wk for establisehd; 2x wk for new)
  • DONE – Last week to fert trees
  • DONE – Make Garlic Labels – I am thinking of concrete ones for the generic garlic label and wood burned ones for varieties

2007


  • DONE – Look for 1st set of blackey peas to be ripening (2007-08-12 – getting close)
  • DONE – How are the squash doing? - 2007-08-12 – Already ate a few; zukes better [tasting] than yellow
  • Need bed for fall garlic
  • DONE – Space for winter peas – big accident – something smashed some yellow wax beans – so now I've got an area for peas :-)
  • Spray Deer-Off around trees and veggies
  • DONE – Enlarge,enhance water troughs in orchard (done 2007-08-21)
  • Fill bird feeders
  • Transplant Russian Sage
  • Transplant Lilac to backyard
  • Freeze more oregano
  • DONE – More photos (2007-08-23)
  • Update website
  • DONE – Rig support for cherry tom in veg bed 2 – sort of – mostly just wove it through the fencing wire
  • Buy concrete and posts – 3 bags per post – get a pallet like before
  • Do something for sweet potato vine
  • Order fall planted trees

08 – August – To Do – Week 2

2006



  • Change Fridge Water Filter – Whirlpool WHCF-R-Plus
  • See Lists from Week 1
  • Feed ficus and other houseplants
  • Start acquiring “Chicken Stuff”

08 – August – To Do – Week 1

2007

2010



2007

  • DONE – Water Trees – Back yard, Gala Apple, [September Wonder] Fuji Apples
  • DONE – Finish tacking fence wire (2007-08-12 started)
  • DONE – Return [extra roll of] fencing to HD [Home Depot]
  • Spray Deer-Away
  • Fill bird feeders
  • Transplant Russian Sage

2010

  • DONE – Turn compost
  • Clean Chicken Coop
  • DONE – Deep Water Trees
  • DONE – bag sunflowers [to prevent wild birds from eating the seeds off of the ripening heads]
  • Dig compost into future garlic bed
  • Start another compost heap – include more browns – dried stuff

08 – August – To Do

2006

2007

Goats



2006


  • DONE – Order Garlic before mid-Sept (Ordered 2006-08-12; arrived 2006-09-25)
  • DONE – Order the fancy daffs – last spring's were great (Ordered 2006-June)
  • Grand Gala Apples are ready for harvest in August in zone 5 (2006-August – no apple harvest this year; 2007-07-29 not this year, either)
  • Plant Trees
  • [Plant] Winter Rye

2007


  • Plant Trees
  • DONE – Squash planted mid-June should be ready for harvestsoon (2007-07-29 – 4 zukes almost ready; right on schedule)
  • Pick up trash [along fence line]
  • Update website
  • DONE – Take more photos
  • Mulch Trees
  • Spray Deer-away

Goats

  • Breed angoras in Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov after fall sheering so they will kid after spring sheering