Tag: garden tour 2021

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  • 120 carrot seeds planted in little soil blocks. I WILL grow carrots.
  • This copy was written by either a 1st grader or a Boomer. “Pretty and tasty, too!” Just, no.
  • We planted these a while ago and they did better than the blue lake 274 bush. No beansies yet!
  • We’re a couple weeks away from harvesting garlic. This has been in the ground since Sept 2020.
  • I’m still in awe that potato plants grow from old wronkly potatoes (thank you, fat thumbs, for my new favorite word!)
  • “Hey!! I’m a sunflower–the extrovert in this little garden party. Look at me, everyone!” I’ll allow it.
  • Big daddy beets next to baby beets.
  • These everbearing strawberries have never seen the inside of a human digestive tract. Sad.
  • The most unusual plant in our garden. A carrot. (Someone explain to me how this happened–on purpose!)
  • Hercules, the ministering duck. He visits the chickens maaaany times a day to check on them.
  • Pee tea or poop smoothie. Either way, it’s a great fertilizer. It uses rabbit pellets, which are very safe. And delicious.
  • My freshly planted sorghum. I know I paid too much for these seeds. $7 for 50 seeds. Wut??

It’s June 12th, and that means there is more happening in the garden and on the farm than I can write about. We’re keeping this farm blog so that we can improve, learn and grow. It’s working! We have used this blog to see “where were at” in terms of same time last year’s garden. It’s exciting and frustrating at the same time. Things seem to move so slow, but like I said, they’re almost moving faster than I can keep up with!

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  • A corn (with a single tear trickling down its cheek)
  • The garlics
  • Mr. Cucumber (looking dapper, my friend!)
  • The tomato gang
  • First year of everbearing strawberry plants from our friend Jan
  • Beets. “Dear beets, you are much easier to grow than carrots. Love, the Garden”
  • Egyptian walking onions… Part of my goal to have more allium in my garden
  • Horehound. She’s part of my new medicinal herb garden.
  • Holy cow! Potato plants really do grow from cut up potatoes!!
  • Our garden
  • Again, our garden (big bush is chamomile)

Tour de jardine. La di dah.

Sometimes with gardens it’s easy to feel like you’re so far behind. Like “It’s already June 3rd and were not harvesting peas yet!” True–other years we harvested peas around this time, but last year at pea harvesting time we had zero garlic, a culinary herb garden the size of El Salvador (so teeny tiny, very very small, not big at all), and no overwintered greens. This spring has been very good to us, even though we have no peas to show for it. Our garlic all sprouted and grew, I harvested from the culinary herb garden all winter/spring, and we ate kale +chard all winter/spring like it was going out of style (because it is going out of style–orach is kinda the new kale).

We have no fresh peas yet, but it was the weather’s fault. Nothing more boring than hearing people talk about the weather (except for hearing people talk about video games or Avengers movies), so I’ll keep this short. April was supposed to be cool and wet, but it was freakishly hot and dry. So, no little pea fruits yet. Hopefully we’ll have a harvest before Thor’s hammer of heat withers our little pea shoots like spawned lava in Minecraft.