Animals
- Eureka!
Breathtakingly beautiful, blue-skied days are upon us now.Summer has arrived on the farmand each day is spent in a gardening marathon. All of a sudden, there is so much to plant! So far, I have planted sugar peas, onions, radishes, carrots, beets, leeks,spinach,...
- Rain Dance
With gardens that needed watering,I geared up (yesterday) for what was to be a rainy day.You might remember that I planned to use the rainy day as a day in my garden...weeding. However, the day proved sunny, hot and humid. I did my level best throughout...
- Berry Time!
One of our favorite times is here...and by now you know that we have many favorite times around here! It's berry season. And that makes us berry, berry happy!! Strawberries, big and juicy... lusciously sweet...are appearing daily in the new strawberry...
- An Unruly Child
I have come to the conclusion that having a large garden is much like raising a child.It takes an inordinate amount of supervision...and if you turn your back for just a little,it goes completely out of control! That is exactly what has happenedin...
- Rainy Silliness
Yesterday afternoon I ran to town to do some Christmas shopping. I left the Littles in the front pasture for the afternoon, as the weather was cold and cloudy. Sometime while I was in town, however, it started to rain. This is what I came home to......"Hey...
Animals
When All Else Fails....
Yesterday was a marathon gardening day.
The garden is (re)planted.
The end.
Ok, well, not really the end, because of course I have to tell you what is planted!
And...
I have come to the conclusion that Mother Nature is schizophrenic.
Sorry Mother... but you are a bit erratic, no?
Yesterday as I gardened it started out cold, then warm and sunny,
then cloudy, then cool and rainy, then warm and sunny again.
It rained so hard that Maddie sought shelter on the front porch of the playhouse!
(Maddie is our Newfie who gets shaved for summer every year...
making her look more like a poodle.)
In the span of 8 hours, I removed and reapplied my sweatshirt at least 5 times...
and amongst all that a raincoat came off and on a few times, too.
But the bottom line is this...
I am done.
Finis!
So here is the final tally:
27 heirloom tomatoes
15 hot peppers
15 sweet peppers
30+ broccoli
cauliflower
Romanesco (Christmas tree cauliflower)
30+ kohlrabi
kale
rainbow Swiss chard
lettuces
spinach
sweet corn
purple sweet potatoes
onions
sugar peas
carrots...red, orange, purple
beets,
spaghetti, acorn, butternut, yellow and zucchini squash (not looking so good since freeze)
4 varieties of eggplant
watermelon
cantaloupe
pie pumpkins
green beans
cucumbers
pak choi
ground cherries
oodles of basil, dill, cilantro
(I am sure I am forgetting something... but you get the picture!)
And when I was all done, Ollie and Donnie Brasco thought they would entertain me a bit!
A bit of Ollie wisdom...
"When all else fails....bite him in the butt!"
- Eureka!
Breathtakingly beautiful, blue-skied days are upon us now.Summer has arrived on the farmand each day is spent in a gardening marathon. All of a sudden, there is so much to plant! So far, I have planted sugar peas, onions, radishes, carrots, beets, leeks,spinach,...
- Rain Dance
With gardens that needed watering,I geared up (yesterday) for what was to be a rainy day.You might remember that I planned to use the rainy day as a day in my garden...weeding. However, the day proved sunny, hot and humid. I did my level best throughout...
- Berry Time!
One of our favorite times is here...and by now you know that we have many favorite times around here! It's berry season. And that makes us berry, berry happy!! Strawberries, big and juicy... lusciously sweet...are appearing daily in the new strawberry...
- An Unruly Child
I have come to the conclusion that having a large garden is much like raising a child.It takes an inordinate amount of supervision...and if you turn your back for just a little,it goes completely out of control! That is exactly what has happenedin...
- Rainy Silliness
Yesterday afternoon I ran to town to do some Christmas shopping. I left the Littles in the front pasture for the afternoon, as the weather was cold and cloudy. Sometime while I was in town, however, it started to rain. This is what I came home to......"Hey...