Unintentional gardening

Hubby never lets the compost, well, compost. I think I mentioned it before. Anyway, out front where he dumped some compost, we have potatoes and tomatoes growing. It's funny how gardens you want to grow, don't; but dump some compost wherever, and plants will do what they want. One of the potato plants has been dying off, so I decided to pull it and see what was there. I got a half dozen potatoes of different sizes, and saw a lot of nice earthworms.

If you click on the picture you should be able to see the worm about the center of the picture. There were probably a dozen worms this size, and boy do they wiggle and jump!

There are a couple other potato plants out there with little pea-sized potatoes. I have read that you can rebury the plants and the potatoes should continue to grow. We shall see.
It did turn out there was a second potato plant that was dying or had died, because I found three more nice little potatoes.
All told, we ended up with nine potatoes which should make a nice breakfast tomorrow.

The reason I brought the two smaller ones in, is because they came from the plant that had died.

But best of all, no fire ants!

Be safe and God bless.

Mowing in May

So we decided to mow the pasture today. Lately I have not been having good luck with the mowers. Hubby wanted me to use our old tractor. I was a little rusty since middle son has been doing the mowing since he got here. Hubby helped me get the tractor started, I was heading out and noticed the left rear tire needed air. Then I had to look around to find the tire pump end of the air compressor. Couldn't find that, but youngest boy remembered where the portable air pump was.

Got that done and about a third of the 5 acre pasture mowed (with hubby's help on his tractor), when my tractor just quit. Shut the PTO off, let it sit a minute, tried again, nothing. Did this several times. Hubby came over. We tried a few more times. Nothing. We'll look at it tomorrow.
He told me I could use the riding mower. Got started on that, and the front right tire needed air. Then after some more mowing it needed gas. Got it filled, and it wouldn't start. Tried several things, then realized it was operator error, haha. Forgot to shut off the mower deck when I shut it off to fill the tank. Ugh!

The best part about mowing today, was we had as many as 15 helpers eager to fill their tummies. These egrets are not afraid of mowers. They will walk and run in front of tractors ten times the size of ours, if it means a meal. And it usually does!

And we had a little lady who just had to get in the way.

But as you can see it was a gorgeous, if windy, day.

In 2011, I ordered two hazelnut trees from Stark Bros. Nursery. Only one survived and decided it was going to be a bush instead of a tree. I did some reading, and this is normal for hazelnuts. Hubby kept thinking about pulling it out, but procrastination won over and I may finally get some hazelnuts this year!

We did get the pasture mowed, which was nice as we may get some rain tomorrow. Just in time for it to grow a few more inches. :)

You all be safe and God bless.