Turnip of Doom and planting notes

This turnip planted itself and I've been cracking myself up with how big its gotten. At some point its just going to crack or go to seed...

Strawberries are here.....

Look what surprised me on Sunday - the strawberries are here! They are just stunning and incredibly tasty. I got a nice little bucket of ber...

Peonies popping and planting notes

Things are really popping around here! Just look at these peonies! And aren't these cabbages just lovely? Planting is in high gear aroun...

Planting and More Dog Chores

I think gremlins got into my camera... not only did I loose it for most of this morning (why this post is late), but some of the pix from ye...

Garden and Farm Notes and Dog Chores

I need to get a few things down for my record keeping.... Garden: * This bed has two rows of Yukon Gold, a row of livestock beets, and 2 row...

Ham Slab on the Grill, Fencing, and Soil Sample

This is what we had for supper last nite - an enormous slab o' ham done up on the grill. The pic doesnt do it justice - that slab was bi...

Even MORE planting!

I know that everyone in the Mid-West is running right outside today to enjoy the cooler weather.... what a relief! Maters are still setting ...

Mornin'!

What a beautiful morning! What a wonderful sunrise! The air conditioning is finally off, the windows are open, and wow the sun is shining! G...

How hot was it!?! And hatching notes.

Today it was so hot that........ one of our turkey hens, Runner, actually jumped into our big livestock water trough! She walked around like...

Look what's blooming and Farm Notes

At this writing (late Monday nite) we are having a tremendous thunderstorm - the second line today. Its been wild.  Late afternoon backlight...

Strawberries!

It's the first one. Isn't it beautiful? What could be better for the first day of June? I'm thrilled that our strawberries are s...

Hill of Beans, farm notes, and broody update

I'm thrilled to finally be doing some planting. Of course we went directly from cold winter to unbearable rain to.... hot summer. Thankf...

More on Taters - now THAT'S a seed potato

The last couple days have been a little cagey with all this weather. Yesterday we scampered to get everyone safe and then the storms went ar...

The Best Farm Tool EVER and...

I just gotta show you The Best Farm Tool EVER. It's a propane torch that can be used to kill weeds and stuff. Talk about a life saver! I...

And then they just flew away.....

Ingrates. The beez from the green hive swarmed (split) yesterday. We were so excited to get 'free beez' and had a whole new hive all...

Farm notes - berries and pears and mud

Well there is no joy here in Mudville... just mud mud mud and more mud with extra mud on the side. If this keeps up we'll have a banner ...

Before. During. And After. Winter cover crops.

Remember last fall when I planted the cover crops in the upper garden? Finally, we got enough sunny days to do some tilling - so I got some...

Planting potatoes

Note: Chai Chai, I know that I promised to talk about feeding the pigz.. but I have to write down where I planted the taters or I might for...