Rainy out today. I was having a hard time getting the Agribon-19 in the dimensions i needed. I must have it at least 12' wide. The Agribon is available in 12' widths, but the only place i fount it was at Vesey's, and only of 50' lengths. I expect to have four rows needing 29 feet or so (gotta have extra at the ends to close them off) each. Tried emailing them to see if they can get me 150' in continuous length, but i doubt they will be able to even if they are willing, often the stores get them precut and packaged and they dole out the pieces.
But on the way back from visiting my Grampy at the hospital, my sister and i stopped at Paris Farmer's Union to see what they might have, and they looked in their catalog. Found something called Remay (or Reemay, a search for "Remay" bears results in both spellings). This should be a very similar spun material like Agribon. Internet search results in a number of short mentions of the Remay material, seems all positive- for uses such as bug repelling, light frost protection, increased direct-sown seed germination, soil warmer, wind protection, sun protection, & small critter and bird baffler. Just what i need. Paris can get me continuous 300' for the same price as 3 packages- equaling 150' from Vesey's --- and no shipping charges. Yeah it could be way more than may need this year, but for the same price... it was going to cost that much no matter what i did anyway. Might as well get twice the material.
So it should be in today at the earliest. They will call. I'm going out with my sister to see our Grampy again today so i will check in after that because i will probably be out when they call the house.
I really hope its the right stuff. All this plotting, planning and obsessing....!
Been too busy hanging out with my sister to get any more seeds started, but she's only here until Thursday morning and its back to California. And Grampy's operation is tomorrow. It will be a little scary.
Hubby took me to Lowe's on Saturday and we got the PVC for the hoops. I poked the ground with a shovel the other day to see how deep the frost was, its still there, so no rototilling yet even if it wasn't raining, but the rain will soften it a good bit.
The Winter Rye has taken off again, very green out there, not even Easter yet.
Not sure what to do with the apple trees. I don't dare to prune them myself, i have a book to read about it though, just need the time and the daring. But i guess i can't make them any worse. Next i have to look in on what sort of things i can use to organically control what is bugging them. Companion planting tells me to grow onion family plants around them... i think a bed of chives will do much for them, and chives are easy. Maybe toss in a few Welsh Onions....
Gave my sister a huge basket of yarn the other day. I opened up my stash and told her to grab whatever she wanted, don't be shy. Very glad of it, i have lots of nice yarn but no time. She is a knitter and knitting brings out the best in the yarns i had, crocheting does not do them justice since you get a bulkier result. At least with the stitches i use. We are going to have to mail it to her in a box because it will be too expensive to send on the plane, think laundry basket of yarn...lol
So, we will see what today brings.
