6/23/2011 Rain, rain and more rain...Broccoli! Can't wait for the harvest to come in! Hopefully we will be able to get out to the garden this weekend, without our slickers, that is! The rain has been quite incredible! We are really looking for the sun this weekend. More pictures to come... everything growing wonderfully with all this rain! 6/21/2011 Our Onion Bed!We are very proud of our onion bed this year. The key: intensive weeding! Again with the weeding- for onions to thrive, the bed must be weeded! Great! More bending over or kneeling to pinch off all of the little weeds before their roots get so entangled with the onions bulbs that when you weed you pull out your baby onion bulb! Mulching with straw helps, but is not 100% weed proof. Good old hand weeding is the only way to go! We can safely say that we will get many more onions this year than last, and hopefully they will be quite a bit larger! Next year, we would like to tackle a garlic bed- we just have to get it together this fall to plant them! Stay tuned for more Vegetable Pics! 6/11/2011 The Lavender is Harvested!After a morning of rain, The clouds remained, but the air was cool and dry. The plants dried out, and we went for a tour of the garden to check on everything. We came across our lavender and noticed it was ready for harvesting! What fun! We smell delicious, and so does our hall closet where we chose to dry the lavender- a cool, dry, dark place is needed to dry lavender to maintain the scent and color of the buds. Don't they look beautiful? In about two weeks we will have bunches of lavender for sale at the farm stand. I will be keeping a few aside for soap and other sweet smelling items. 6/8/2011 Hot Day!It is the hottest day so far this year and I have retreated to safety. Cooking in the heat while watering, digging, weeding and tending to the demands of the ducks I was defeated by 2pm today. Hiding behind glass with the blasting of the AC here is your garden up date.
Now in are second week of June and the Pole beans are reaching and the squash has sprouted nicely with the great weather we have been having. Cut worms have been doing there best to fell our young plants peppers in which we have had to replant quit a few of. The infamous Potato Beetles have been making short work of our tomatillo plants and I am seriously thing of pulling them out before it gets out of control. Over it has been a great start to summer we have been harvesting Kale, Radishes, Green Onions and Mix Greens. The farm stand will be full this weekend so be sure to stop by. 5/2/2011 A Planting WeekendTeresa and I planted the Kale plants we started this winter in the garden this Saturday. Yes, they are very close together we planted a additional 5 plants in what would be normally 4 plant spacing. Come June we will harvest the additional 5 plants and allow the 4 correctly spaced plants to fill out. Sunday morning the Onion sets went in and with only 14 days to the last frost date we are working hard to get the beds ready for the veg. This time of year just flies, you don't notice the date until it's the 4th of July. Any ways here are some pics.
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Teresa Fuller
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