Category: Vegetables
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The Best Laid plans of Mice and Men are often laid ASTRAY! (Also fishing pole rack, carrot tops, and filters)
Craig and Bruce decided to add to the fish habitat by sinking a Christmas Tree in the pond. If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again. Third try was a charm! BELOW: After several “mishaps” with poles on the ground, we decided a rack for fishing poles by the pond was in order. The poles will still be…
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More of Day 2 of Farm Day(s) – Fishing, carrots, lettuce, goats, and a little target practice.
Some of the Cousins from Wisconsin and BR visited on the second Farm Day. Lots of things to do at the farm! (Even things that never crossed our mind before). Below: Once the goats found out about Carrot tops, lettuce was really low on their wish list! Below: Before the cousins arrived for the second day, Ike was…
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Farm Day with some of the cousins!
Farm Day was spread over two days. About 1/8 of the cousins visited. You can see from the pictures and videos that everyone had a great time. Both of these crews went hunting, but left all the deer healthy and happy! Ike made vanilla ice cream for the cousins. 1.5 C whipping cream, 1 C Milk, 3/4 C sugar,…
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Goats enjoy the sunshine when it is cold, Heron visits, and Ike harvests lettuce and carrots
Below: A great blue Heron visited the goats this morning. This bird stayed with the goats for quite some time before the goats finally left the heron behind. The heron eventually followed the goats around the pond to the log (this blue heron’s favorite fishing spot) and caught his breakfast before departing. Ike cut the lettuce for dinner…
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Meals from the garden, harvesting lettuce, and getting the nursery ready for the kids
Fresh lettuce and cilantro from the garden, and shrimp stuffed bell peppers (bell peppers grown by Jackie in St. Francisville) made a delicious meal. Below: Picture #1 is of the carrots, #2 and #3 show lettuce before harvesting #4 is the garlic, #5 is after the harvesting of lettuce, and the last picture is a bag…
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Winter garden is taking off, Fruiting vines, Goats, and Golden Rod
The lettuce is beautiful and we will enjoy some of this lettuce tonight. We can either harvest the ouside leaves or just cut the top out of each lettuce plants. Either way, the leaves will grow back and we will have an abundant crop until the first hard freeze. You can also see a row…
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Freeze, Vegetables and Berries that survived, and Halloween costumes!
The night before the temperature dropped to 27 degrees, we harvested the lettuce, basil, cilantro, beans, and watermelons. The lettuce, carrots, and cilantro survived the freeze. The bean plants, watermelon vines, cantaloupe vines, honeydew vines, basil, and the zinnias were all history. The Blackberries (left) and the raspberries (center and right) are thriving despite the…
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The importance of PERSERVERANCE, Lines giving way, and culprits eating plants.
At first glance, you think the moral of the video below is “don’t bite off more than you can chew’. However, if you stick with it, you realize that this video is about perserverance. Don’t know the origin, but it truly says “If at first you don’t succeed, TRY, TRY AGAIN”! The fishermen filming this…
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Preparing the fields, pumpkins, beans, watermelon, deer, bear, turkeys, coyote, camping, turtles, family pictures.
It is time to disc the fields for planting. The fields are disced to break up the plants and solid ground. When there is a forecast of rain, we will till, then spread seeds. The seed mix that we choose contains a mixture of plants that will grow at different time of the year to…
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Bush String Beans, Cantaloupe, Raccoons, and a HAY Slide!
We got to harvest some of our Bush String Beans yesterday. The bushes started producing beans when they were only a foot tall. These string beans were cooked for dinner and were delicious. (The picture below is only a fraction of the harvest, so everyone did get to eat string beans last night.) BELOW: This…