Animals
We are never at a loss for willing helpers!
- Happiness Is A Garden!
After two days of drenching rain, the clouds started to break apart yesterday afternoonand the equines headed out into the front pasture. The horses seem to have accepted the donkeys into their herd, but the donkeys are still a little insecure and stay...
- An Agrarian Lifestyle....with Gratitude
It's late afternoon, Thursday.I am sitting here typing with a terra-cotta pot's worth of soil trapped beneath my nails.My clothes, jeans and a long sleeved tee shirt, act as a steel trap for countless tiny pieces of hay...which seem to find their...
- She's Back
After spending months at a Caribbean Spa,Minerva Mae Honeycuthas returned to supervise gardening atBee Haven Acres.Minerva Mae spent the summer, last year, tending garden. She had a rough summer...too much rain in the Spring... too many weeds to keep...
- Garden Party
The really warm weather that we had last week may be gone for now, but signs of Spring still remain. This past weekend Hubbs and I finished moving oak bark mulch into the vegetable garden. (A big thanks to our adopted "son" Tim for moving...
- Garden Explosion!!
It seems like just yesterday, I was planting seeds in tiny pots in the greenhouse. Now, months later, cold weather is just a memory and the dog days of August are upon us, and those tiny seedlings are mature plants bursting with produce. Thirty tomato...
Animals
Minerva May Honeycut Returns
A little rain didn't dampen our gardening spirits this weekend.
Instead, it gave us the opportunity to work in the greenhouse.
We are never at a loss for willing helpers!
Amanda and I filled the workbench with pots of soil and planted seeds for
zinnias, sunflowers, morning glories,
corn, green beans, limas, purple broccoli, orange cauliflower,
pumpkins, squash and gourds,
as well as more onions and several herbs.
Over the next few weeks these tiny seeds will germinate and grow into seedlings
that we will transplant into the garden boxes.
We donned our rain gear and also put 150 strawberry plants into the garden.
We opted for two varieties....AC Valley Sunset and Cabot.
Cabot are known for hardy, disease resistant plants and huge, sweet berries.
Goodness I can already taste the strawberry shortcake!
Minerva May Honeycut, mastergardener, had a makeover.
In 2009 she looked like this...
in 2010 (she had gone on a diet)....
2011...
And this year, after a little plastic surgery over the winter,
(I decided to try to make her face more three dimensional this year)
(I decided to try to make her face more three dimensional this year)
and a new wardrobe, she looks like this.....
(Thanks to Amanda for drawing her facial features.)
Minerva has been hard at work, tending garden much earlier this year.
As a result, the sugar peas look like this...
The rhubarb will soon be ready to start harvesting...
The perennial herbs are looking luscious....
Sunday's excitement included catching the Nigerian goats (always mayhem!)
for Hubbs and I to trim their hooves...
And Dr. Becky to vaccinate and worm them...
By far, the best part of the weekend was a special visit by Tyler.
We had lunch and visited with all of the animals.
Bobby seemed to be Tyler's favorite this time.
But better than the animals was the ride in Aunt Becky's gator!
Weekends are always fun on the farm!
Minerva has been hard at work, tending garden much earlier this year.
As a result, the sugar peas look like this...
The rhubarb will soon be ready to start harvesting...
The perennial herbs are looking luscious....
Sunday's excitement included catching the Nigerian goats (always mayhem!)
for Hubbs and I to trim their hooves...
By far, the best part of the weekend was a special visit by Tyler.
We had lunch and visited with all of the animals.
Bobby seemed to be Tyler's favorite this time.
But better than the animals was the ride in Aunt Becky's gator!
Weekends are always fun on the farm!
- Happiness Is A Garden!
After two days of drenching rain, the clouds started to break apart yesterday afternoonand the equines headed out into the front pasture. The horses seem to have accepted the donkeys into their herd, but the donkeys are still a little insecure and stay...
- An Agrarian Lifestyle....with Gratitude
It's late afternoon, Thursday.I am sitting here typing with a terra-cotta pot's worth of soil trapped beneath my nails.My clothes, jeans and a long sleeved tee shirt, act as a steel trap for countless tiny pieces of hay...which seem to find their...
- She's Back
After spending months at a Caribbean Spa,Minerva Mae Honeycuthas returned to supervise gardening atBee Haven Acres.Minerva Mae spent the summer, last year, tending garden. She had a rough summer...too much rain in the Spring... too many weeds to keep...
- Garden Party
The really warm weather that we had last week may be gone for now, but signs of Spring still remain. This past weekend Hubbs and I finished moving oak bark mulch into the vegetable garden. (A big thanks to our adopted "son" Tim for moving...
- Garden Explosion!!
It seems like just yesterday, I was planting seeds in tiny pots in the greenhouse. Now, months later, cold weather is just a memory and the dog days of August are upon us, and those tiny seedlings are mature plants bursting with produce. Thirty tomato...