We are getting so close to having the garden all done and planted. I love gardening but I want to move on to other chores. Hopefully just one more week of transplanting and the garden will be in. The cantaloupe seeds I saved and planted have popped out of the ground. I wasn't sure about them but so far it's a success which makes me smile.
The cantaloupe sprouts saying hello.
The peas are growing fast, so we put up some T-posts and fencing for a trellis for them to climb up. The T-posts we already had and the fencing we acquired from family that didn't want it anymore. I took video to show how we wrapped the fencing onto the posts and I'll be posting that on our you tube channel. The drip system is all laid out and in place for the most part. There was an unexpected chore that came up this week.
The trellis for the peas.
I was minding my own business doing the dishes the other morning when I realized our water pressure had dwindled. I mentioned it to Mr. Homestead and he agreed with me. He pulled on some shorts and put lil man on his shoulders because he insisted on helping papa in his pjs, they went on a quest to find a leak. When they returned they had the answer to why our water pressure had decreased, there was water surrounding the pump house. Busted pipe perhaps, we would have to find out.
The peas are growing fast, so we put up some T-posts and fencing for a trellis for them to climb up. The T-posts we already had and the fencing we acquired from family that didn't want it anymore. I took video to show how we wrapped the fencing onto the posts and I'll be posting that on our you tube channel. The drip system is all laid out and in place for the most part. There was an unexpected chore that came up this week.
I was minding my own business doing the dishes the other morning when I realized our water pressure had dwindled. I mentioned it to Mr. Homestead and he agreed with me. He pulled on some shorts and put lil man on his shoulders because he insisted on helping papa in his pjs, they went on a quest to find a leak. When they returned they had the answer to why our water pressure had decreased, there was water surrounding the pump house. Busted pipe perhaps, we would have to find out.
Mr. Homestead put on some "real" clothes and gathered some supplies to fix it up. All three of us headed down to start digging so we could figure out where the leak was. There was one particular spot where water was collecting so with a shovel, trowel, and one of little man's buckets we got closer to the issue. When we put up the garden last year we tapped into a water line the previous owners had put in. Come to find out one of the PVC joints had come lose.
The muddy hole we dug.
We were quite relieved that it wasn't a bigger problem. All I see when I hear the word leak is money signs $$$. I love being a homeowner but when an issue comes up I get terrified of how much it's going to cost us. Luckily the only cost was for a can of solvent, since we were out of it.
With little farmer boy asking us every ten seconds what we were doing we scooped all the water out of the hole and made some room to get the two pieces of PVC apart. We applied the solvent and cement to the joint and put it back together. After waiting thirty minutes or so we tested the line and no leak, yay!! We buried the line and were able to continue with the chores we had planned for the
day.
The to do list for this week is to mow the pasture, cover the potato sprouts, get the rest of the drip line down and cut up some more logs. Let's hope we don't run into anymore unexpected chores. Oh I almost forgot we need to harvest the garlic too.
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