Saving the Tomato Transplants

Sister Wilde was busy in the greenhouse today saving the tomatoes. Apparently a few of them didn't do so well so she came to the rescue and is transplanting them again for a second round. 

Here are the leftover tomato plants that were the weakest in the group. We only take the cream of the crop for planting. We're going to see if we can revive the ones that weren't doing so well by putting them in their own pots to grow.

Sister Garvoille was busy sifting soil to help the tomato plants.

Strong Men at Work

We were blessed to have several men and young men come from the Cottonwood Heights stake on Saturday. We put their strong muscles to good use and had them set up the stakes for the tomato plants. These men worked hard hammering the stakes in place.

This group of young men and their leaders worked hard on getting the wicket poles to bent into their semi-circle shape. 

Bending the poles.

Sister Bolton had been eying a particularly messy area right in front of the shed. The young men got right to work cleaning out the area as their last task of the day. Thank you! It looks so much better.

All nice and clean!

Greenhouse Seeding

Tonight was a cold night at the farm. Most of the sisters worked in the greenhouse planting seeds, while the men and a few other tough sisters worked outside pruning the grapevines. We had two new sister missionaries join the team--they are both named Sister Leitner. They really are sisters and live together in West Jordan. We're happy to have them on board.

Here they are working in the greenhouse planting celery and tomato seeds.

Here's Sister Leitner working on planting her seeds. The seed packet contained over 500 seeds and barely covered the very bottom of the packet. It looked like it was almost empty.



These teeny, tiny celery seeds were placed inside a plastic cup. A seed spoon was then used to carefully pull one seed out at a time.



One samba celery seed was placed in each hole of the celery crate. You had to really keep track of where you were in the process because the seed was so tiny that you couldn't see it next to the soil mixture.