Amending / Side-dressing the rows of garlic was the work of yesterday. Wheelbarrow load after load of composted manure out to the garden, then the process of taking a fork at a time down the rows to line each section between the rows of new garlic. Most of the plants are now about 4-5" tall and looking rather nice. It is still pretty wet out there ( Read more... )

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Totally sucks when you cannot bend, kneel, lift, turn, walk, move, much at all and need to get things done around the farm and the weather is trying to help. Worked outside some yesterday, putting up the gate and closing off the goats from the pasture of the milking barn. That area needs to rest some before the pregnant girls get moved in there ( Read more... )

Today marks the start of the planting for vegetable starts. Onions, onions, and more onions, I think some lettuce, and broccoli ( Read more... )

The snowstorm has came and went, leaving it's droppings all over the farm. Many trips out to clean off the hoop house to keep it from caving in were made, with the weight of the very wet snow, there was no choice to be made, it had to come off regularly ( Read more... )

Last night Rikke handed off to me some of the seed orders that are now complete and have been sent out and paid for. Here is a basic listing, surely no one cares about all the details. I will just list the overall headings for the different veggies, skipping the sub-types and varieties. The numbers that follow the headings are the amounts of ( Read more... )

Potatoes potatoes and more potatoes!


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Some pics taken out in the vegetable garden the other morning. All behind the ( Cut )

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The 2007 season is underway! Where do you get your fresh vegetables?

Took some time this morning to work-rework-work on watering hoses for this year. Too many times they have been left in the drive to be run over by the multitudes, quickly ruining them ( Read more... )