Spring is fastly approaching. This evening after watering my peas (yes, they are up about an inch now!) I went for a walk around my property starting at the creek and noticed the skunk cabbage is about 3-4 inches out of the ground already. A little further I saw a bunch of new greenbriar growth, some [...]
We didn’t move to the new place until most of the garden was gone, but there are still some roma tomatoes, lots of bolted basil and a few pepper plants still producing. I even found some forgotten onions when mowing down the cover-crop. Although we won’t have the pretty stocked shelves of multicolored canning jars [...]
I learned my lesson last time and won’t be attempting to get this all done in a single year, but there are several things I’d like to take care of as soon as possible. However, this time around we have Waylon, which makes a HUGE difference in the amount of work we can get done. [...]
It is high season for fresh, local peaches. My peach trees have beared and the fruit now gone, but there are plenty of other peach trees in the area still waiting for human hands to come pick their bounty. Or if one had a few extra bucks they could buy them by the box-full, ready [...]
Today I filled the second trailer and truck-load full of stuff to take over to the new place. The first load, yesterday, was of compost and wood. This load will include chicken-wire, 100-feet of flexible drainage pipe, a generator and some fencing. I love the fact that moving for us these days involves the transport [...]
This will probably be the last garden update for awhile since we’re moving to Floyd in a couple of weeks. I’ll post more about that later, but we’re set to close on our current home at the end of the month and are set to close on our new farm at the end of August. [...]
I’m going to go ahead and call the no-till, new garden approach we started last year a resounding success. I may not have the best garden in the county, or even on our road, but everything seems to be doing well enough considering there was no tilling involved and it was started on sod with [...]
This is the first thing I do when I wake up every day. Although I’ll spend most of my weekdays inside working on a computer, getting out in the morning mist helps put me in the right mood for the day. After this I’ll feed the rabbits and dogs. By then Missy is up and [...]
YAY the sun it out! I’m all caught up on lawn work so it’s time to get back into the garden. On the agenda for today is hilling the potatoes, but what’s the best way? I was going to hill potatoes with straw, but then I read this forum, and now I’m thinking I’ll have [...]
Yesterday I put in the corn and beans, added mulch, watered the garden, spread gravel in the drive, cleaned out the gutters, put up the hummingbird feeders, pulled weeds, thinned seedlings, etc…. so I decided to take today off, as recommended by at least one out of four major religions. Here are just a few [...]
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