Day 724 - A HUGE Score & Garden Talk with Jamie

PPO3 is supported by Timber King sawmills. For more information on my 1220 CRZ mill or one of many Foley hydraulic options, go to TimberKing.com. Well this morning was nothing but a curveball. I was supposed to be editing today, this morning, but something came up. My trailer, I don't know if you can see it back there, but it's full so I can't use my trailer and I got an opportunity to get a bunch of white oak from this tree service I've been working with and let me tell you that the guy who owns this tree service company is just, is just a good dude. He totally gets it. So he took down a bunch of white oaks and called me and said, hey I got some white oak for you, come get it. I was like, oh man, my trailer is kind of occupied at the moment and I can't, I can't, I just can't, I'm sorry. He's like, okay, well it's just a trailer. We'll bring my trailer up there. It's a big flatbed trailer and a bumper pull, your truck will pull it just fine. We'll have it loaded up and ready to go for you. And I thought, for real? You will? Well this location was an hour away from the house which isn't far, you know, in Mississippi, isn't too far. In Mississippi you gotta drive to get anywhere, right? So I went up there this morning and let me show you what I got. Again, this is not my trailer. He had it loaded up, ready to go with six white oak logs. How do you say no to that? Like, are you for real? How do you say no to that? Six white oak logs? Yeah man, just come pick them up. When you're done, you can pull, you can put the trailer back at our place in, just down the road from you guys. And what? Like, what? What? Such a nice dude. He totally gets it. He didn't want to see these, he did not want these trees to go to the landfill. They're too nice. So, holy moly. Oh man, look. Six big white oak logs. Now two of them, I can tell you right now, my tractor can't pick that up. So I don't know how I'm going to drag this off, but I gotta be delicate and don't want to damage this trailer. I should be able to get these three off relatively easily, I say. Yeah, like, I'm speechless. Your trailer, free logs, um, what? What a, what a good dude. Totally gets it. Doesn't want these to go to the landfill. Alright, it is 10 30 in the morning. We've got rain coming in behind me and we also have to fire up the grill here soon because we're doing a friend's Easter celebration today and we're hosting and cooking out in about six hours. So I gotta get this done before I can do that. You hear that? That might be another log. My neighbor over there is running a chainsaw. I don't know what he's cutting, but he told me he had a big pecan tree that, oh yeah, I think he's taking a tree down here, a beeping backup sign, or a beeper, whatever that's called. He's taking down a pecan right by his shop and I'm gonna get that as well. Oh buddy, I gotta get moving. I gotta get some stuff cut. White oak, too big to go on my sawmill. Well, not physically too big, just too heavy to put on the sawmill. White oak, too heavy to put on the sawmill and white oak, too heavy to put on the sawmill. Gracie, I, I put that big chunk of wood there as a wheel chalk. You can't be taking my big chunk of wood out of there. That has to stay there and I'm telling you that to protect your safety. It's for your safety. Protect you. All right, three, see how many do I have over here? One, two, three, white oak, four, white oak, five, six, big white oak, and seven, white oak, one, two, three, four, five, red oak, and that is my phone, which, and then over here, these three white oak, my tractor could pick them up, but just barely. So I think I'm gonna put these three on there on the sawmill and maybe slab these up on the sawmill versus using the Alaskan mill, but logs for days around here, that's for sure. The trailer is empty and brushed off, ready for me to return with a few hours remaining to cook for Easter. I hope you all are having a wonderful day and hopefully your fortunes are just as good as mine. I'll talk to you in the next one. So I came out here today and I'm going to plant my four clocks in this raised log bed. I'm doing that for two reasons. A, they're kind of big enough now I can tell what they are and I think they're going to be fine thriving out here. I actually make that three reasons instead of two. It's supposed to rain Saturday, so I think getting them established and getting a good rain will really help set them in place. And then also, I just really want these little containers back. I'm out of these little containers, so I want to plant some more things and get them started, and I need those containers. Well, there he is. How did I manage that? So I somehow took the dirt and the flower stayed in the pot. Like, I don't even know. All right. All right. So I just got those planted and they're kind of small. They may not be daisies to see. They're right there. They're big enough at this point. Like, I can look at them and tell what they are, so I won't accidentally weed them, hopefully. There's another one right there. You might be able to see. And so they're sticking up. I just planted this from a pack that I got at Walmart. So nothing fancy, just a little four o'clock annual seeds. And so they're supposed to be, according to the package, good for pollinators. So I'm hoping that they come on up and start blooming here soonish and stuff, because this would be in the raised bed. I've already got my sweet William right there. They're blooming very pretty, but nothing else currently has any blooms on it. So I'm going to get some color in this bed to, again, help encourage pollinators so that when I get the garden over here actually planted, that encourages good pollination and stuff to happen over there, and hopefully will be good for the garden. This is my first time ever planting four o'clocks. Never had them before at all, so hopefully they do well. And then if it's something that I like, then I'll plant them maybe again next year. Again, they're annual, so they're not going to stay here and stuff like a perennial will. But again, maybe some pretty color help fill in the and hopefully over the next four weeks, this area that's kind of bland right now will fill in. While I'm over here, I'll let y'all have a little update on some of the little trees that Nathan brought us. So at first they weren't doing very well. You can kind of see up here all the original leaves have kind of fallen off or are like right here, just brown and brittle and wasn't doing well. So I was a little worried about these at first, but down at the bottom, they've got some green coming up, so I'm hopeful that they're all going to make it. This is one of five, and all of them are like that. I'll walk around and show you. Well, I'm sorry, I misspoke. One of five and all four of the five have new growth. So look at this one. It has some big leaves here at the bottom. Again at the top, wasn't looking the best, looking kind of yippy. And then walk over here and show you the other three. This one actually has them at the top. I think that makes it look prettier personally, but there's some leaves on there. And I had to put these poles here because I won't name names or creatures, but they kept getting knocked over. And so I was trying to be like, hey, there's something here. Let it live. So here again, some green on this one. Again, the top not looking so well. And then this poor guy, he didn't, I don't know if he's going to make it. Like he doesn't have any, Oh, actually hold on. I may have misspoke. There's a touch of green. Do y'all see that touch of green right there by my finger? I don't know if you can or not, but there's a touch of green. So maybe he'll make it. This little guy here, he wasn't here very long. And I came out here and he was like completely over. I don't know if it was ran over with a tractor tire or if, um, the dogs knocked him over or orders of what happened to him. I don't know, but I was worried about him. And again, put the reflectors up saying, Hey, there's something here. Please, please, please don't run him over. So maybe I'll get lucky and all five of them will continue to grow and get big. And then I also put some wood chips around them. Um, is a, Hey, something's here. And as well as a water retention thing, cause we're just in a drought. Let me see if I can show you how dry it is here. So this here is just a mud puddle that was on the property. Again, not far from the flower bed. You can see it right back there. Get out of that. I did that right on camera. Do you see that? I'm telling you can't have nice things. Um, anyway, I was at one point using a bucket, using this actual mud water to water all this flowers, but it's dried up to the point. And like, you can see that like there's cracks in here and this is a mud puddle with cracks, but some of our land is like that too, that doesn't have vegetation on it at all right now. It's just really dry. We're supposed to get a good inch of rain Saturday. And I really just think the property needs it. And hopefully it gives new life to some of this stuff that's barely holding on. I'm going to show you something that I like about this, um, log bed. This is just me. The bark has came off of these, um, log poles or whatever you want to call them at this point. But I think they're pretty, they got this little, like, it's not a striping necessarily. I don't know what you'd call it, but I personally like it. I wish that all of the bark, like that one still has some bark, would just go ahead and fall off. And I think it will eventually. And I just like that look. It's very, to me, it's organic looking. It's not truly a pattern that repeats itself. Um, but I just think that looks nice. And I'm, um, waiting for the day that they all do that. Um, these are, again, the planters that I use. And I planted all that you see here. So there's, uh, a whole tray minus two. I don't know why I didn't have those two. Probably have something else in them elsewhere. And all of these minus these four, uh, the seeds came up. So I thought that was pretty good and stuff came up in this. It just wasn't the seed. I'm pretty sure that's just grass and other weeds. This was some compost that I used to grow this in that we just, I made here on the property. So I'm sure it had seeds and who knows what else in it. Um, as far as grasses and weeds and stuff that, uh, held on and decided to come back this year. These are some flowers that I transplanted from my other garden and they're doing wonderful. Like this one here has actually gotten pretty tall and this one has as well, and they're trying to bloom. So hopefully in the next few days, I'll have some blooms. Um, I did really well on this transplant. The, I transplanted over several days. Um, the first day, everything that I transplanted, uh, grew up. And then I had a few more. I had this one, let's see, one, two, three, four, and five. I did five extra after that. And they didn't do well. As you can tell that one, that one just died. This one here, right beside it, it's doing okay. And I don't know if that one's going to make it. It's got a lot of brown, but we'll just see what it does and stuff. But not everything again, made the transfer. And I think it's just probably because it's hot. I have been trying to water, but it's just been hot. And so I think that they just, uh, too much of a shock to their system and they didn't make it. However, I can't complain because these again were flowers that I grew last year in the first garden and getting anything out of it to me is just like a win. So again, not complaining and I'm hoping that these help fill in. I felt like this whole bed garden here is just going to look a hodgepodge of all kinds of things. And I'm okay with that. I'm wanting it to get large where I say, Hey, I like that. Or Hey, I don't. Um, I'm not very good at looking online at other people's garden things and saying, Hey, this is how they did it. This is how they set it up to me. That just is overwhelming with all the different options you have. So I'm just kind of winging it, throwing things in here. If I like it, I'll keep it. If I don't, it'll get moved. It's not a big deal. And because I grew all of this from seed, like none of this is expensive. So I don't feel bad either. Like if something doesn't make it or if I don't like it, I move it later and it doesn't make it after a second transplant, just for the simple fact that, uh, it wasn't, it's a, it's a learning experience and it wasn't costly. Um, I do want to show y'all one last thing. Um, and that is my sweet William over here before we go. So this is my sweet William last year in my garden. It grew, but it never flowered. And maybe that's a flower that does that. I am very ignorant when it comes to flowers and what they do. Like I know some flowers don't bloom their first year and these did not, but look at them this year. They're just gorgeous. Um, and I can actually see them from the shop from up there. When I look out the door, I can actually see this blast of color from there. And it just looks so nice. The only thing that I don't like about it, and then this is just me being picky, is the fact that we have our burn bin right here behind it. So I look out that, that door from over there and I'm like, Oh, look at that color. Looks great. Oh yeah. That's a beautiful, beautiful backdrop. Let me tell you. Um, but eventually this will be gone and I'm hoping after this year, we have a better place to do this too. So it isn't such an eyesore, uh, where we have a bunch of just debris that needs to be burned and got rid of in the meantime. All right. I've decided to show you one last thing. I know that I keep saying that, Oh, one last thing, last thing. Well, my brain's like on jump mode, I guess today. And I wanted to show you this other thing that we're working on. Um, and this is like a, I guess you'd call it a blackberry patch and stuff. So it's right on the other side of my garden and stuff. Um, I had been told, I don't want those in my garden that the vines and stuff may take over and it may become a more hassle than it's worth. Um, so we've said, okay, we'll do something different. Keep them close so that we can get to them, but maybe do something else. And then there's tons and tons of natural, um, wild blackberries growing here. So we've decided that this is the area that we're going to let them be. This was the, originally this whole area right here was covered with wild, uh, blackberries that Tyler K and Jay picked the first year we were here. But then after he mulched this area and took down a bunch of trees, um, of course the big vines were gone, but it's like they're very resilient little things and they're coming back. Like we have them all throughout here. Let me see if I can find you a few that I seen yesterday. Oh, perfect. Like right here. So there's one, and then here's its little neighbor. And there's some more things in here like this is a, um, red maple trees, a little sapling that's right here. And I think I may leave that and just see what happens. So eventually I'm going to come in here and like basically from these two perimeter trees here, make a big circle and come around. And I told Jay that I want to, um, make this an area where we know not to mow, not to do anything with. So what we decided yesterday is we're going to cut up some more logs, but we're not going to not going to be a raised bed per se as far as, um, as far as feeling the bed and then everything being elevated. We're just going to, the size of this stump, which isn't very tall. You can kind of see my hand beside it. It's very small. Just going to do some little, uh, stumps like that all the way around to give us a perimeter. So we know, Hey, that's where they're at. And then that's the area we're trying to fill with wood chips. And if we were ever wanting to go get blackberries, they should be over here. I do have a, uh, cattle panel trellis right there where I'm trying to get one to grow up a bit. I do have it trying to come up, but it's not doing very well. And I think it's because I put it here. So I'm hopeful that it'd come back and I hope that it does. Nathan gave me this and I feel like I'm not doing the best caretaking, but I'm hoping that it's just, um, went dormant for a little bit and will come back. I have been watering it, but again, it's just in a, uh, a location away from the house. So maybe haven't been doing the best at watering it. But again, all of this area, we're going to fill with wood chips and I've done a little bit of that, but not much. It's just, um, something I just started just yesterday. And we're going to fill this in and it's going to be a nice area, um, again for hopefully some blackberries, wild blackberries, and then maybe some trees coming up. And did I even mention maybe putting a bench over here and make it be a nice area where you just come and sit and just enjoy, which will be nice because eventually my house will go over there once we build. And then it'd be something that isn't very far away. So in the morning you might can come enjoy this area. This is another thing we did. Again, watering is a huge issue that we have, um, for the garden. So yesterday we came out here and we said, hey, look, this area already is kind of low. Let's make this like a small pond or a small retainer pond and let's get us a pump and let's let this water that catches from the rain and from our gutters coming down. Let's let this water be what we put back into the garden and hopefully that helps growth. So eventually that's what we want to do. Like I said, we kind of marked it off. It isn't going to be a very big pond and stuff or very deep and stuff just, you know, where we could come out here at any point. If we stood in it, we could stand up and it not be over our head. It's not supposed to be deep, but just able to retain some water and hopefully, um, help maintain the, the watering of our garden. And then same thing over here, cause it'd be so close to here. We could probably pop something over there to help with water retention and hopefully those make it. And I, and in here there's also some more of these wild, wild, sorry, I cannot talk today. There's also some more of these wild, um, blackberry bushes and I'm planning on transplanting all of the larger ones over there and making that a thick area. So hopefully it does well, but we'll just have to see. This is something that's going to be weeks away. We have so much going on right now. He's not going to be able to dig this anytime soon, but we did come out here and get the, the groundwork as far as like, Hey, this is what we want. This is where it needs to be. And this is the plan for it. And then also these are not going to make it because of that. But look at all these, uh, sunflower seeds and stuff like that. Look how that little patches right there that just came up there. There's so many of them and that's just in this low spot right here, but there's plenty, plenty all throughout the property that we threw. And we're, we're excited for when those come up.