Archive for 'Potatoes'
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 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 4th, 2003 by
Lisa
It rained all day today. It was more than a drizzle, but it wasn’t that cold, and because we have so many things to do, we worked out in it anyway. Frank dealt with it far better than I did, because I got whiny and cold and complained a lot, and he seemed to have
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Posted under Bulb Hound, Bulbs/Corm/Rhizomes/Tubers, Garlic, Harvesting, Lasagna Layering, Mice, Potatoes, Reviews.
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Posted: August 2nd, 2003 by
Lisa
We’ve had pretty heavy rains all week this week, and the flowers in bloom in the garden are really starting to show the strain of all the water weight. The Shasta daisies in particular have mostly flopped over and started to rot, turning into a most unattractive slime heap. Ick. So I went out and
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Posted under Bindweed, Coneflowers, Crazy Daisy, Deadheading, Delphinium, Frogs, Gardening, Harvesting, Hollyhocks, Lasagna Layering, Lily beetles, Planting, Potatoes, Rain, Reviews, Soil, Star Gazer, Tiger, Weed Whacker, hydrangea.
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Posted: July 31st, 2003 by
Frank
Or so we think. It hides in the algae (which it’s eating madly) so it’s almost as hard to get a good look as a good picture. There are also half a dozen somewhat larger (two inch) charcoal grey fish in there, none of which we’d seen before today. At the rate the salmon colored
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Posted under Algae, Crazy Daisy, Day, Farm Life, Fish, Lily, Pond, Potatoes.
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Posted: July 25th, 2003 by
Frank
I did some puttering outside the last two nights. Yesterday, I mowed the lawn and hauled in two cartloads of firewood. It’s rotten stuff from ‘96, but we need to do something with it. I also checked out the mushroom beds while I was down there: nothing showing. It’s way too soon, of course, but
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Posted under Compost, Firewood, Lawn, Mushrooms, Pond, Potatoes, Tractor.
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Posted: July 9th, 2003 by
Frank
I got out after work tonight and turned compost piles. It was way too hot over the weekend to do then. I moved the last of the stuff from the old middle bin over to top up the new bin I turned ten days ago. It looks like we’ll have two full bins ready to
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Posted under Compost, Irrigation, Mushrooms, Pallets, Potatoes, Soil, Tomatoes, Turning, Weather.
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Posted: July 8th, 2003 by
Frank
Lisa’s out of town, and the weather continues hot but no longer totally oppressive. I watered the potatoes and mushrooms, then finished replacing the zone 7 sprinklers with dripperline. I got about 50 feet up on the upper center bed as well, but it needs another run. I was getting hungry so I quit at
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Posted under Irrigation, Lasagna Layering, Mushrooms, Onions, Peppers, Potatoes, Reviews, Tomatoes, Watering, Window Boxes.
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Posted: June 28th, 2003 by
Lisa
We got a lot done today. Frank’s big to-do item was to turn the compost. The far right bin of the old set (right near the house) is our finished stuff, and has collapsed down to less than half a bin. It’s too late to spread that stuff now, so he was hoping that the
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Posted under Boulders, Building, Compost, Deadheading, Gardening, Horsetail, Lawn, Lupine, Pallets, Potatoes, Turning, Weeding, Window Boxes, tulips.
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