had to come in and sit down after planting potatoes and beets for four hours. Was planting as the sun came up, delightful time of day and so far the bugs weren't out, although I did see a mosquito on the back porch yesterday which isn't good.
Had decided to do half the potatoes, one row, but kept going and did the whole thing.
Boy my back hurts even wearing a back brace. Hot tub for sure this afternoon.
Now some seat time. While I hand raked the first four rows to cover the potatoes, going to use Super A on last two rows and see if I can use the hiller to cover them. Just don't have the energy to hand rake at the moment... At least with the Super A I can see what I'm doing and not wreck anything. Would be nice if I didn't need a finish raking but the other four rows look so nice, hmmm.
Fed allows me $1.60 per pound deduction for food given to food pantry. One could really game the system buying 5 pound bags of carrots which cost .69 a pound, or bananas which are currently on giveaway at .37 here locally. Why are bananas so cheap?
So for the lettuce and kale and stuff like that, I take the buck sixty rate. But for these potatoes, I only claim .60 a pound. Never been audited and don't intend to start now... I'm in a very low tax bracket so honestly the tax deduction doesn't amount to much but it's something.
If I factored in the fertilizer, fencing, seed, plastic, paid wages, rototillers, plus all three tractors are used, the deduction is actually laughable.
low sixties out now, lovely to be outside. Was very cloudy and cool early in the morning.