Archive for 'Vegetables'
Posted: April 18th, 2008 by
Frank
We’ve had entire week of warm and dry weather, which is good because we have a million things to do. The waterfowl went outside last weekend, in electric poultry netting. They started with a dogloo for shelter, yesterday we added a dog crate so the ducks and geese each have their own digs. They’re
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Posted under Carrots, Ducks, Frogs, Geese, Honey Bees, Icelandic, Lettuce, Mice, Pigs, Rams, Shearing, Sheep, Turkeys, parsnips, spinach.
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Posted: March 16th, 2008 by
Lisa
Oh mud season has begun. Ms. Minerva would like nothing else than for me to sit my tushie down on the ground so she can climb up onto my lap. But it’s a muddy mucky mess out there! She has to satisfy herself for however long it takes before my legs start to cramp.
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Posted under Pigs, Seed Starting, celery.
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Posted: August 23rd, 2007 by
Lisa
I’ve been so busy canning lately. It’s that time of the year. Besides peach jam last week, this week I bought a bunch of tomatoes at the farm stand because I don’t have enough of my own yet, sadly. All those tomatoes turned into 10 jars of catsup and one pitcher of
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Posted under Canning, Farm Life, Food, Harvesting, Tomatoes.
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Posted: July 1st, 2007 by
Frank
It’s July first. That’s pretty scary given how much we need to do before snow flies. However, for the first time in a long time it really feels like we accomplished more this weekend than just take care of (and chase) the animals. Yesterday we built half a raised bed. The one we have is
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Posted under Building, Compost, Farm Life, Honey Bees, Manure, Potatoes, Sawmill, Tractor.
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Posted: May 26th, 2007 by
Lisa
Poor thing. She just hates everyone and everything right now. I’m trying to coddle her as much as I can, to not add to her stress. The current theory with what killed Mary is an overrun of a common bacteria that lives in their respiratory tract, and that can be caused by stress. The vet
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Posted under Chickens, Collecting, Compost, Eggs, Farm Life, Llama, Pearl, Pigs, Potatoes, Prince, Raised Beds, Red Scoop of Joy, Snakes, Tomatoes, Turtle, Valerie, Vegetables, illness.
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Posted: October 17th, 2004 by
Lisa
We had a really productive weekend here on the homestead. I got my tomato vines ripped out and I’m glad the sheep like green tomatoes is all I’m saying. We spent most of the weekend pulling trees out from where they were cut for the addition and running them on the sawmill to come
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Posted under Sawmill, Sheep, Tomatoes.
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Posted: March 29th, 2004 by
Lisa
My sweet peas were getting so tall that I decided they just had to go outside already, because there’s no way to keep a vining plant under lights, I think. Why did I start these so early? I’ve never grown them before, and the package said they like cool weather, so cool weather they are
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Posted under Planting, Tomatoes, sweet peas.
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Posted: March 8th, 2004 by
Lisa
I’m not sure what I was thinking, but I had ordered a bunch of heirloom tomato seeds from Tomato Fest last month. I bought their short season collection, hoping for an earlier harvest that I got last year. But anyway, in his book, he talks about planting his seed in the first of April, and he’s in California, yet I started mine the first of March? I did, though. I think I’m going to try those water surround things from Gardener’s Supply, too, to see if I can get them outside mid-April. So the seedlings are already pushing up the tops on the clear covers, growing madly. I used some old plastic silverware for markers, because I really want to keep track of the varieties of these guys. I planted four each of six varieties, and it looks like all but two germinated. Here we go!
Posted under Seed Starting, Tomatoes.
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Posted: October 25th, 2003 by
Lisa
It actually turned out to be quite nice today. Sure, it was windy, which makes it difficult when I am trying to rake leaves, but still, no snow except in the really shady spots like the front porch, no rain, pretty warm, and sunny. Not bad after two days of snow. We got outside pretty
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Posted under Coffee Grounds, Compost, Deadheading, Harvesting, Honey Mushrooms, Mulch, Ornamental Grass, Potatoes, Spreading, Weeding.
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Posted: October 5th, 2003 by
Frank
A pretty day, but the Marlow Harvest festival and a desperately needed shopping trip kept us out of the garden until very late. The shopping trip did provide us with a decent bulb planter. Damn this fancy Japan/Taiwan engineered bent metal. It’s a cup on a stick, 1/8 inch Penna. steel, welded in Bangor, Maine.
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Posted under Basil, Harvesting, Honey Mushrooms, Peppers, Tomatoes.
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