April 10 - It seems as if, perhaps, the freezing winds from the northwest have subsided some, bringing some much needed warmer night temperatures. All the cold crops planted over the last few weeks have survived the cold snap “frost on the grass” . In the last two days I have done more work around the yard, fixing the netting, weeding and planting. Yesterday I planted 86 more onions and 18 lettuce seedlings (mostly Nevada). Today, I cultivated the potato patch area with my new Ego cultivator, as I got tired of trying to get my Mantis tiller to work properly. It probably needs the carburetor cleaned out, but I don’t like the fact I have to keep cranking the pull line to try and start the engine. The Ego cultivator is cordless, starts right up and digs down nicely, saving me from going on my hands and knees pulling out weeds, one by one.

I planted 10 potatoes from the last of the 50 lb potatoes I bought at Byler’s last November. We will see if they grow. I still have two more rows of potatoes to put in, Eva and Alaska, I think it is called. I have tilled those two rows, so they will go in soon.