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Garden Journal – June Week 3
The cut garden is in full bloom, and the berries are starting to ripen. come and see what I made from the garden bounty this week!
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Garden Journal – June Week 2
This week my mom-in-love surprised us with a little visit. one of my cutie pie nieces was with her. My mama happened to be visiting and she, my daughter and I were all still in out fleece jammies after a late night slumber party. we decided to hit the garden with her anyways and we had a lof of fun chatting and watching my niece get such joy out of visiting the chickens. While out there I noticed that the zucchini were looking a little limp, so I stood there in that fabulous outfit watering the windmill garden ( as we call it) and squinting in the sun. Before heading…
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Garden Journal – May Week 4
Last week of may in the garden? What is blooming and what is ready to be harvested? Read on to find out.
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Garden Journal – May Week 3
Gardening has a tendency to make you do things that you never thought you’d do. Things like talk about compost piles at the dinner table. Getting excited when the chickens fertilize the new flower bed. And saving worms for the struggling vermiculture bin. Who am I?!?! I don’t recognize myself anymore since mini-farming. The rain clouds can’t seem to make up their minds these days. We have been spoiled with unseasonably warm days this spring. So that makes the cloudy ones feel like they are out of place. Yet historically, the last few weeks should have been all rain this time of year! So I’m trying very hard to stay…
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Garden Journal – May Week 2
This week we are at that limbo state where the ground is just about warm enough for new seedlings, but not quite. And the seedlings are almost large enough to go out in the garden, but not quite. So I water on the hot days, snatch up a weed as I walk around and sit inside on the rainy days wishing for sun, yet thankful for the drops of water that refresh the land. As I try to be patient for planting out the rest of the veggies, I can admire the cold season crops that are doing well. Look at the before and after of the Peter Rabbit cabbages…
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It All Started With A Sprained Ankle
I was thinking the other night about how far we've come since our first mini farm garden experience. As I reminisced, I realized that it all stared with a sprained ankle. My ankle. Ouch
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Garden Journal – May Week 1
It looks like the sun will be here to stay for a while. Hooray! Like I mentioned in an April Garden Journal entry, I don’t usually get down with the gray weather. But this year I was needing the bright sun to break through the mental fog There is a sweet little farmhouse close to our home that has gorgeous perennials for sale. Do you see those dilightful hues? Their prices are so reasonable that it is hard to not get carried away while browsing their selection. This beauty came home with me… along with 3 other perennials. Tonight we finished rebuilding the roost in the chicken coop. We came…
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Garden Journal – April Last 3 Days
So much was going on these last 3 days of April! It was crazy busy. The garden and mini farming can be a lot of work, and yet it also refreshed my energy and inner strength. ahhh… The highlight of the week was having 2 nucs of bees arrive. They weighed 6 lbs each and both were looking healthy. Hubby is the only one of us two with a bee suit so he placed them in the hives. I stood at what I thought was a safe distance…. and a blasted honey bee stung my right on the belly! Then another stung me on the leg. Seriously?!?! Oh well. The…
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Garden Journal Entry – April Week 4
This week started off with really mucky weather. I don’t consider myself someone who is often affected by dark skies and rain. More often than not I enjoy it. Unless I’ve straightened my hair. Then the drizzles are not appreciated my this frizzy haired woman! But for some reason I have been really down with these gray days. No amount of spring cleaning indoors, planting in the greenhouse or planning the garden had taken away that down feeling. Honestly, I was simply out of sorts. Then the sun showed up towards the end of the week. The spring chill could still be felt on the breeze but the sun’s rays…
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Garden Journal April – Week 3
This has been a rough week for me personally as my health just won’t cooperate. Nevertheless, I made it out to the garden one day all bundled up for a very short time to check on the seedlings and up-pot them. I may have gone overboard with seedlings this year. But there are 3 reasons why: *Some seeds are older and may not germinate. So I need backups, just in case. *We are trying to increase out “food factory” production. In other words, eat off our land year round as much as possible. That means we need more plants to produce more food. *And finally… because it’s just the way…
