Last year, when our 5 Ameracaunas first started laying, we were greeted each day with a weird, shell-less, goopy thing that looked like it wanted to be an egg, but just wasn’t quite sure how to get there. This lasted for about 2 eggs per chicken and was real fun to clean up. Needless to say, I was not looking…
Apparently, hilling up your corn will strengthen it against the wind, allowing it to grow more roots than it would otherwise. To date, our corn has done just fine without messing with it. But then again, we have never grown blue corn before. Our blue corn (which is in the front yard) has gotten really, really tall. One in particular…
Happy Monday, everyone! This week brought more tomatoes (thank goodness), the last of (the second round of) spinach, a couple of carrots and a few more snap peas… …and the very first summer squash of the year!!! Yay for a little variety (even though I didn’t get pictures of everything)!!! This weeks totals:Snap Peas = 4 ouncesTomatoes = 14 ouncesCarrots…
A couple of days ago I was talking to Alex over at Spotty Dog Farm about distraction crops (AKA trap crops). They can be weeds or plants that come up accidently or that are planted on purpose (think companion planting) and will either distract the bad bugs with their scent and their yumminess or will attract other (good) bugs that…
The first pie pumpkin The first (ever) acorn squash I love the texture in this bed…Sunflowers, tomatoes and acorn squash Ashes made her way outside, Bo was not happy about it… Baby tomatoes…not suffering from butt rot The first lemon cucumber…the previous few mysteriously disappeared… The first bush snap pea The first rain water harvest!!! Silly puppies AKA Mika &…
Believe it or not, I have never had my very own sourdough starter! I’ve wanted one for a couple of years now, but never got off my ass to actually start one. However, in my quest to try new things (including regularly making our own bread), this seems like a natural step. Funny thing is, while at the store the…
