Did I mention the farm acquired a 2 bottom plow and a double disc harrow ? Mmm, instead of months to double dig, the field is almost all ready for planting ( Read more... )

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... )

Yesterday was just smackin nice out. Got a goodly amount of planting done in the veggie garden. Herein lies a list of things planted on the yesterday ( Read more... )

Tis that time again,

( Read more... )

One of the things on my list of todo's today was check on the potatoes in the garden, too see if any of the plants have yet died back and are ready for harvest. I went out this morning and spent a little time digging in the dirt. The two types (out of about 10) that I decided were near ready, were Yukon Gold  and Russian Blue in about 8' of row for ( Read more... )

I found this beauty in the herb garden, just a few minutes ago. What a beauty.


( Read more... )

The chore focus for today was to be harvesting the green crops today. So, I started with the zuchini that were ready, I know the summer squash are yellow but they were ready so out they came. Then off to the cucumbers which there were a good many of them. Alot of the broccoli had went to seed, the heat changes will make it bolt rather quickly. We ( Read more... )

I have been outside working in the herb garden this morning. After about 2 hours of morning clouds and haze, the sun decided enough was enough and burnt through that crap. The temperature soared and reminded me that the goats' water needed checkin. With the hose in tote, out I went to the pasture, filling the 10 and 20 gallon buckets as I went, ( Read more... )

7:30am ( Read more... )

Onions!

With over 2000 onions, there is alot of weeding to do, just in the section with the onions. The walla walla's are already pretty much done, I am in between the red storage onions and the copra storage onions currently. Took a break after 2 hours and set the sprinkler up to work the schweeeeet corn, after break, I will move the waterer to ( Read more... )