Peony Transfer

Monday, June 7, 2021
Hello friends,
Round one completed of the peony transfer from Mom’s house to the farm. We worked very hard last week moving big rocks from the rock pile behind the creamery. That is the pile that remains from the cheese cave dig out, after landscaping in front of the creamery and down by the sign. It took the tractor, a dolly, a t-post, and several shovels to get them from point A and positioned aesthetically to point B. Then two heaping tractor scoops of compost from the lower 20 where the cows ate hay and, um, completed the digestive cycle. Twelve 40 lb. bags of topsoil and a few more rocks, and finally we were ready to go to Mom’s house and dig up 12 or 13 most beloved peonies. This morning we put them all in place and watered them in. Next, we get another bed ready for the remaining plants before closing on the 30th.
Instead of amber waves of grain, we have green seed heads of grass. The pollen is falling off, and the seeds are forming. Soon I will have to empty my muck boots of the grass seeds in the mud room and pick them out of my socks! The cows will actually eat the tops. It takes a lot of grass seed to make a mouthful, but they don’t seem to mind. This warmer weather has the cows looking for cool places to rest during the day. They don’t get poison ivy, but we have to be careful not to get it from them…..