No School Day 14

No school day 14

 

Horticulture-Family History- Time to weed the heirloom raspberry patch. It was way overgrown with weeds. The raspberries have a long family history. They came from my great great grandpa's raspberry patch in Logan Utah, starts moved to my great grandma's house in Utah county, then to my mom's in West Valley and she brought starts to us 13 years ago. Long history of these same berry plants, and they still taste yummy! They don't really love our hot climate here in Missouri so they do struggle but sometimes we get a good crop depending on they year. Most of them died out a couple of years ago when we had a really hot summer so we are kind of starting over. Decided to gather all the live plants and move them to a couple of rows so they could thicken up and be all together, strength in numbers! They struggle when they have to fight the weeds alone spread out in the larger patch where they are now. When they are close together they shade the weeds too and we don't have as much weeding to do. Hmmm sounds like another good lesson there. Long process to remove weeds, trees and transplant. Going to take several days but we got started.

 

Earth Science- In the raspberry moving process Carissa and Brittney learned they could easily dig a well. All you need is a tiny garden shovel, dig a hole and within a couple of minutes you have a hole full of water. If you use a bigger shovel you get more water quicker. They now have knowledge as to why it is so easy for our ground to turn to mud. The water is sitting right there only a couple of inches underground, at least this year.

 

The really wet ground did make it easier to dig out and pull up the week trees that started to grow. 

 

The roots on those trees are HUGE no wonder why they are so hard to get rid of!

 

Scott turned the compost pile so now it is aerated and ready to be spread on the raspberries or the garden.

 

Still more work to do but its a start.

 

Animal Science- We always take time for puppy snuggles.