Whelp…after all the excitement and promise of cherries last week, it looks like I was worried about the wrong pest. This is what has happened over the past few days… Do you see the two almost ripe cherries?Now, do you see the devoured cherry above them? Yep…all our beautiful, ripe…
The good news is, we have cherries that are ripening up! The bad news is, we have a million aphids on our cherry tree! The good news is, we also have some Ladybugs on our cherry tree! Let’s hope they’re hungrier and faster than the aphids…
Well, after last weekends post about our broody hen we decided to put Blondie in solitary confinement for a couple of days. We decided to use our brooder (Version #2) and put it in the garage where the temperature this time of year is still pretty cool. (We’ve had a couple of laughs…
Whelp…we have our first broody hen. This is Blondie (called that because of all her yellow coloring…all our other Ameracaunas have a rustier coloring to their feathers) and she’s officially gone broody over the past week. Being that she’s a little over a year old and it’s spring, I guess…
I’ve been hardening off a lot of my seedlings over the last several days and then bringing them in the house at night so they don’t get too cold. They’ve been doing really great…no wilting or burning, no falling over in the wind…awesome! This is until yesterday. Yesterday I came…
When we first moved into our house, there was nothing in the backyard but rocks. When we decided to start growing some of our own veggies, we quickly learned that Mika (our always starving Husky mix) would prefer to just eat everything herself. And when I say everything, I mean…
…they go really, really bad. Yep, that is an actual bug hanging out on the edge of the liquid you see there. Larvae. Whatever. It wasn’t alone, either. Gross. Disgusting, actually. I threw it out. All of it. Not sure if we got a bad batch of flour, or if…
I have said before that everything in the garden is not always wonderful or pretty. Sometimes there are mutant toes, sometimes crops fail, sometimes the creatures take over, sometimes things are just plain gross. Each evening when I get home from work I do a walk through of the…