There is always something to do This week I’ve been feeling overwhelmed. I’ll freely admit it. We’ve definitely got a lot on our plate right now, especially compared to just a year ago. Last April at this time we had the garden, 2 goats, and 11 chickens. I was working part-time and didn’t really have…
You know when you do a ton of work only to find out that it was all a waste of time? Yeah, well I just found out that all the planting we did of squash, melons, watermelons, pumpkins and cucumbers was a waste of time. Something ate them. All of them. So this weekend will…
Everything in the vegetable garden has been planted out except for the sweet potatoes. Well, the sweet potatoes and some more peppers and herbs that I’m waiting to germinate. Oh, and the small Pink Pearl apple tree we still need to plant. But everything else is in, even the celery starts which are quite small. I…
It’s a lovely weekend so hopefully we can get a bunch of stuff done. We’ve got peppers, corn and squash to plant. We’re still waiting on our new irrigation line, so redoing that will have to be postponed another weekend. But we also have a small apple tree to plant. Pamina gave me scions for…
I’m going to start doing reader questions as a formal topic now. Type your question in the Formspring box on the right. Just remember that it has limited characters so you’ll have to keep it somewhat short. So hit me with those questions! Our first question in our new series: Do you guys work outside…
I know some of our readers might not be following our other blog or even know about our big project so I figured I’d give an update about it here. We just passed our half way point through our Year Without Groceries. For those not familiar with it, we decided to go a year without…
We’re behind in planting out. And, as it turns out, that’s a good thing. We had a late frost this week. Also last night we were at a meeting and someone has expressed interest in bartering large amounts of produce from us, so by not planting out it gives me a chance to rearrange some…
Monday we were blessed with clear skies and record heat. I woke up that morning blessed with being sick with something that seemed to be a cross of the flu and a cold. So it wasn’t until this morning that I feel somewhat OK. I still am lacking in the energy department and whatever I had has…
For most of this coming weekend we’re going to have rain. This is our big end of frost weekend and so we had planned a bunch of planting but that might not happen now. Our yard is still a complete mud pit. I may just transfer some seedlings into bigger pots and fertilize them. What…
After last year I thought I had learned my lesson dealing with seedcorn maggots. We didn’t plant out corn, squash and beans too early. Actually they aren’t even started yet. We put down compost and manure in the fall rather than the spring to make sure there wasn’t too much organic matter out. And I’m not direct…
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