Well I’m finally feeling pretty much better. I’ve talked to a few people hit by this virus. Its a nasty one. Anyway now I’m playing catch up with the garden. Harvested the onions today, yesterday (forgot to post last night lol). Then laid them out to dry. They will need a few days to harden [...]
I haven’t posted a garden update vid in a while. We’ve been getting almost non stop rain. So some things like our new potato patch rotted, other things like the cucumbers are doing well. Don’t mind the weeds. With all the rain the ground is so soft you can’t till it and the hoe just [...]
This week hubby noticed something strange on some of the corn plants. The kernels looked gray and hugely deformed. We had no idea what this was and hadn’t seen it before. We were growing a heirloom type called Golden Bantam. After posting this short vid on YouTube many shared with us its called Corn Smut. [...]
This past week we’ve been fighting a flu like bug. It really knocked Hubby, ds and myself for a loop. The girls were a little sick as well. Thankfully it didn’t last long, although I’m still fighting it. I’m sure if I can get enough rest it will pass quickly. Wednesday we had a cold [...]
Well today was a busy day on the homestead. Today I canned 7 pints of pickled beets and 6 pints of cherry jam, if you don’t count the 3/4′s full jar. That’s getting tuck into the fridge to enjoy now. We headed out to the gardens this afternoon, to find the Italian zucchinis had exploded [...]
Each garden season is very different from the last. Or it seems that way the past few years. Our weather has not been the more stable warm temperatures with just enough rain that I remember growing up. It rained all day Monday and part of the night, a heavy soaking rain. Finally got a chance [...]
Well the flooding in the gardens has gone down. Thankfully we have had no rain in the last 3 days. Although the weather has been very cool 16 to 18 C it has been windy. That has helped to dry up the ground. This afternoon I headed out to do some weeding. The ground is [...]
We have had so much rain this month. The ground hit its saturation point on Sunday. We had a lot of rain and ended up with at least 8 inches of water in the gardens. Thankfully today the water has gone down quite a bit! This week is suppose to be dry and that is [...]
It’s been raining hard here for some time. We had a week of straight rain. Then it’s been every other day since. The gardens are a mucky mess. Can’t use the tiller or the hoe. The hoe just wont work in the mud. So I’m pulling a lot of weeds by hand, in between the [...]
Trying to grow sweet potatoes this year. Something new for us! First time they have been offered by Veseys seeds. A short season type that will hopefully do well for us. These were planted on June 4th. Now they are starting to bush out and growing new leaves.
