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This photo didn’t turn out too well, but this is the melon patch. We put in 2 different varieties of watermelon in here, about 70 all told if they all make it. Once thinned out that’ll drop to about 30 or 40 plants.
Put in a large quantity of pickling cucumbers. Far more than I’ll ever be able to process myself but we can always sell or give away the excess. Planted a large amount of dill as well for the pickles, of course.
Let’s see — beets, carrots a few hot peppers. The onions are just starting to pop out of the ground. They look healthy.
So much to do out there yet… Badly need to start mulching. Need to lay out walkways. Need to pick stones.
Building work — didn’t get the new window in the granary, just ran out of time. We did get the new dryer in the house and hooked up. As expected, we had to rip out the door at the bottom of the outside stairs and completely re-frame the whole thing. That took far more time than we had hoped it would, but that’s the way it goes.
Need to get a trailer! Something we can pull with the little 15 horse lawn tractor so we can haul mulch, stone, etc. Should have picked one up today while we had the truck, but we’ll still have it tomorrow.
Note to self — find cheap truck! Can’t keep begging Mark’s truck every time we need to haul something!
The trees we transplanted a few weeks ago are doing remarkably well. 4 of the 15 we put in didn’t make it, but that was anticipated. Those 4 were pretty rough looking when we put them in originally. The two hazelnut didn’t make it, and we lost one of the apples and one of the pears. So that leaves us with 11 that did, a mix of pear, apple and cherry.
I was afraid we’d have serious issues because we can’t get out there to water them, but Sara’s self watering technique seems to be working wonderfully.
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Out at the farm all day today. The corn is up! In fact, could actually see the stuff growing. Was just barely peeking out of the ground at 10 this morning, and by 5 this afternoon it looked like this.
We put in 2 varieties of sweet corn. Today we put in a variety of popcorn that looks interesting. The ears are short, about 2-3 inches long, and cone shaped, like a strawberry, with a very striking red color when mature. It will be interesting to see how it turns out. I’ve never tried growing my own popcorn before.
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Hot August day + tempting, cool water tank = Heaven….
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when I was a little kid, around 4 or 5 years old, I was utterly fascinated with how a cow could shove her tongue all the way up her own nose.
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This just became my desktop photo!
Check out this blog. Some beautiful images!
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Yes / No? looks fun :) x
I think you could call this “extreme farming”
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Hee hee… Apparently Amazon’s computers have discovered, somehow, that I’m into farming and gardening (probably from buying books on plants, gardening, etc.) and this popped up in the ‘recommended for you’, a work kilt! Big, roomy pockets, durable material, even a hammer loop. Wonder if I could get away with wearing it at work? Nobody knows who my biological parents were, so I could claim I’m Scots.
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