9-19-10 VERMONT: Yesterday we did a bunch of errands on a warm and sunny day. In the afternoon, I turned the soil in the bed that will become the kitchen herb garden. I described clearing the space in a couple of August posts. While we were away, hundreds of seedlings sprouted which I turned hoed up. I moved the soil to one end of the bed and laid down porous plastic on the base of the bed which is the top of a stone wall. The plastic holds the soil back while letting the water drain away. This prevents the soil from disappearing and defends the integrity of the wall. Then I moved the soil onto the plastic and covered the other half of the bed with the plastic and spread the soil. After that, I added 160 pounds of top soil to the bed to replace the soil that came out with the removed transplants. Now it’s ready for herbs, but we’ll wait until spring.
Today we took Anna and three sophmore friends, Dylan, Sam and Sarah, to the Tunbridge Worlds Fair, in Tunbridge, VT. We ate bloomin’ onions, pulled pork, chili dogs, funnel cake, fries that I remember and probably more, maybe much more. We saw prize cows, pies, oxen, sheep, preserves, goats, pumpkins, chickens, sunflowers, ducks, squash, pigs. Some of us dared the rides. We checked out tractors and saw pig races.
Those are big, tall sunflowers.
Shy Holstein needs a little encouragement.
Tomorrow—NJ.
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