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Fig Tree Planting
Armenian cucumber. Pepper plants after being watered with duck poop soup. The leaves turned a very dark shade of green. Magpies turned three weeks old on Wed. This next one is a flash back when they...
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365 Days of Planting: Days 57-78
I’m trying to play catch up with my 365 Days of Planting. I don’t plant every single day right now, but as soon as the weeping hoses are installed I will get back to planting everyday. Right now the...
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My Weeping Hose Made Me Weep
Yesterday was a busy day with Paulownia trees seedlings coming, installing weeper hoses and attempting to get everything done. I was cleaning the duck pen and temp duck house, Dom was connecting all...
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Around the Garden
We think a squash vine borer has taken up residence in our pumpkin vine. We’re not sure yet until we get up close and slit the vine open to see. I was discouraged to see it happen since everything was...
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Fall Cleanup
As our harvest season draws to a close, we’re cleaning up a lot of leftover plant material. Dom was able to successfully get our compost pile up to 137 degrees and everything is breaking down...
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Fall Garden Clean Up
All along the fence to the left is where we had our cucumbers and sunflowers. The ground was covered with weeds and everything was drying out. It was time to clip the sunflower stalks and pull down...
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A Little Update on What We’re Up To
In the photo above, Dom is working on the rabbitry for our angora rabbits. We removed some fencing last year to make an area that was level to park our cars (our land is on a slight slope). The posts...
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This Year’s Tree Growth
I’ve been wanting to do a post about how much our trees grew this year, but I was kind of annoyed that I would have to search through thousands of photos I’ve taken. Anyway, here are our trees from...
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A Homestead Recap of 2011
I thought I’d do a recap our year and talk about some of our goals for the upcoming year 2012. 2011 was filled with so many firsts for us. It was a year exploding with new growth, possibilities,...
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Garden Planning Continues
This morning while I was pruning the fruit trees, I was thinking about how amazing our property is going to look by July and August. We’ll be tackling more than half an acre worth of planting this...
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