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My first cucumber of the season: a double yield pickling cucumber. I picked it and I ate it and it was good. Trying to keep up with the strawberry runners. It’s getting kinda hard to walk around the raised garden bed without tripping. The Hens are all laying now. I collected 4 eggs by 9:30 Read More >>
And the winner is… Sun Gold. The Girl has had her eye on the first ripe tomatoes for a few days now. She decided yesterday was the day to pick them. Instead of eating them right there on the spot she ran inside to weigh them (good girl), then proceeded to eat her all time Read More >>
The girl and I went picking in the garden this morning and came in with a giant 8oz turnip, a few beets, 11+lbs of peas, almost 2lbs of radish and a few strawberries. I tried calling around the neighborhood this morning in hopes of unloading the radishes. Either all the neighbors skipped town for the Read More >>
Along the fence….these are the only ones I am watering… Behind the tall trees… Along the back fence… In last years compost pile… In buckets… I have no idea where these are…looks like along another section of the fence… Some were in the woods…. Last winter when I was ordering my potato seed from Seed Read More >>
Local Cherries went on sale this week .99 cents a lb. We canned 14 pints and feed some to the chickens. We had no idea that chickens liked cherries. Those birds are getting very comfortable in their new home and around us. Anytime one of us goes near the eglu they come running in hopes Read More >>
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