Late Harvest Gets Later

 Should be half done harvest at least by mid September but I'm stuck at 0% thanks to untimely rains. We could have used that rain back in July when it was too dry but now its just costing us time and money. Not that my crop was ready to harvest anyway due to late planting. Again weather related. Frost this past weekend should kill anything that was still green. Even the leaf colours are a little late coming on as the trees are still mostly green. I shot some video on the weekend down in the valley showing the scenery. Another inch+ yesterday so the wet fields and crops are wetter than ever now. Might as well enjoy the scenery. 

 This guy isn't me. But he could be. I've got a lot of "wild acres" like him that I'm leaving that way. 

Why this Saskatchewan farmer is letting his land grow wild 

Again With The Garden

 Been hot and dry but the garden is hanging in there surviving on moisture reserves from all the rainfall in June and early July. New potatoes are great and had the first new tomato today. Even got inspired to pick a pail of Saskatoons since they are the best crop in years. Mosquitoes are terrible though. 

A Thousand Words

 An old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words comes to mind. I guess a video might be worth even more so here is a July garden update from my yt channel in which I hopefully explain what is going on around here. As usual time is passing in fast forward as I attempt to keep up. 

Lazy Blog Post

 I've been too lazy (busy) to put much on the blog since spring planting finally got started here. Late start means late finish and it was the sixth of June before I did finish. Just with a day or two to spare before the rains made it too wet to get in the field. Now spraying to do and every day that passes is going to make that operation late too. A good inch and a half in the past 24 hours but at least no hail or flooding or tornadoes like some got. 

The vegetable garden is doing pretty good in spite of my neglect. Did some video updates and put a new one on the channel. 

Slow Spring

 Spring slowly moving here but I still found a few snowbanks in the bushes yesterday. Surprisingly wet areas in the field are keeping me from starting in with anhydrous applicating. Took the easy way to check out the North end of the home quarter on Wednesday. From 150 something feet up you can really see how much water is out there. I hear it is a lot worse about an hour North of me. 

April Snow

No its not unusual to get snow in April but this one on the 16th feels like just another 2 steps backwards after the one step forward of a few days ago. Such a nice day I was inspired to fire up the old Mustang from it's winter hibernation and take a short drive on the relatively dry roads. Today it looks like I'll need to shovel snow,, maybe get out with the tractor and blade on the driveway to move the snow so it does not melt into the road and create more mud.