Rural Gardening: On the May Homestead, 0 by darius

darius wrote:
Cricket, baby guineas are keets. I want some guineas to keep the yard bugs and ticks down, and you have to get them as keets or they will try to go 'home'. If the milk thing works out with my neighbor, I can probably manage guineas, and they can sleep in the barn. No fencing or small pen needed after they aren't babies anymore.

Buster (neighbor) just helped me fetch (and unload) 2 scoops of topsoil this morning, and make 2 ridges for sweet potatoes. Normally, one would dig a trench and make tall ridges between the trenches, but that area is clay which doesn't drain well at all and they'd just rot. I thought I'd have to mix the topsoil with compost but there's plenty in it already (plus bottle caps and dried roots!). One row is crooked because of how the tailgate hung over the outside row while we were shoveling. I hope to get the slips planted late today after it cools off; they are stressed enough already.