Archive for 'Newts'
Touch Wood
Posted: May 27th, 2007 by Lisa
I worry that I will jinx it, but we may have actually gone a whole day with the pigs not getting out. Excuse me while I rejoice. We even went to town (for so much crap for the farm!), and everyone was in the right pen when we got back. Even Misty. Pigs are
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Posted under Bleeding Heart, Farm Life, Gardening, Horses, Llama, Newts, Rain, Sheep, Weeding, Wind, electronet.
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Finishing the Front
Posted: April 27th, 2003 by Lisa
I started outside this morning wanting to finish the bed directly in front of the front door. Though I’d done the majority of that bed, for some reason I stopped short of the most visible part, which was dumb, but I started there today, and what a huge difference it made! First off, I tackled
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Posted under Chives, Fish, Flowers, Gardening, Gladiola, Grow lights, Irrigation, Newts, Planting, Pond, Pruning, Shady garden, Soil, Splitting, Weeding.
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Compost Temps
Posted: April 18th, 2003 by Frank
I’ve left the thermometer into the compost pile the last few days. After a few days of sitting right at 40, it finally started moving today. It was nice to see it almost get to 50. I stuck the pitch fork into the other pile, and found ice four or five inches below the surface
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Posted under Compost, Fish, Frogs, Newts.
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Gingrich the Newt
Posted: April 16th, 2003 by Frank
It looks like the only living vertebrate in the pond at this point is Gingrich the Newt. (I think he’s the same one that moved in last summer. And what else would you call a newt anyway?) I’ve fished out 6 or 8 dead frogs by now, and most of them look crushed. We are starting to look around at websites selling pond plants, and want to get those in before we start with more fish. I can see a lot of perennials poking through the left over leaves from last fall. Poking up out there already is the lupines and some heather. The sunset tonight was spectacular.
Posted under Fish, Frogs, Lupine, Newts, Pond, heather.
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