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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 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…
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Garden Journal – April Week 2
We arrived home from our anniversary vacation with so many plans that we couldn’t wait to get started. We jumped out of the car and only unloaded the new plants that had been purchased while we were away. Our suitcases and all the random pillows and snacks stayed in the car. Priorities. We greeted all the animals, quickly donned our wellies and set about our garden doings. Hubby added several plants to the now growing dinosaur garden. I checked the seeds in the greenhouse. Nothing new had sprouted. Bummer. But the reality is that it had only been 3 1/2 days…. sooooo…. nothing should have sprouted. I was just so…
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Garden Journal – April Week 1
This is a weekly update on what’s happening on our little homestead and in our lives. I will try to be as consistent as possible to hopefully inspire you and motivate myself as we continue to grow this mini-farm. But I totally reserve the right to skip a week whenever I’m having just too much fun in the garden and can’t be bothered to write. Just sayin’. 🙂 April – WEEK 1 Happy Anniversary to us! We went away for a few days to a favorite vacation place. It’s perfect: a historic maritime city with countless places to explore, scenic views and a ferry ride away from where we live.…
