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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com
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The three trees that were shading the garden in the morning are now on the ground and partially cut up. I did the felling and limbing, and Jacob will buck them up and load the logs on the truck. We started working on our long gourd trellis this afternoon. I had left all of the old vines on till spring so they would dry out and be easy to remove in the spring. I never had a problem doing this in the past. But last year our vines were thicker than ever, and in February we had a storm that dumped 11" of heavy wet snow on the thick vines. The cattle panels got knocked to the ground and all bent up. But we will be able to straighten them out. We will replace the steel fence posts with treated wood posts that are at least 3' longer. That should get the trellis high enough that we won't have to dig holes for the gourds. In the future, vines get pulled off the trellis in November.
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