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Gardening

Garden Memories, 2010

December 2, 2010

Deepening existing raised beds has to be as high a priority as making new ones. The carrots and horseradish grown in six inch deep beds were happy, but really strange looking. I think it was an issue with the garlic too. Next years garlic is already planted where the sweet potatoes were, the deepest bed [...]

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Time Flies

August 14, 2010

And far too soon, so will snow. New fence just keeps not happening, and there’s weeks of forage out there. We weighed on of the Chantecler cockerels in the hopes that they would be ready for slaughter, since we are doing the drakes on Sunday. We bought them because (among other reasons) they were supposed [...]

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Garden Notes

August 10, 2010

We’re on the homestretch in the garden now, so it’s time to start making notes for next year. First, double the size, again. There’s still a little bit of room in the old garden, but not much. Fortunately, about half of this year’s potato patch can be planted to other crops without raised beds. That [...]

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The Garden is In

July 1, 2010

We have at long last declared the garden “in”. Obviously there remains weeding, harvesting and succession planting, but no more new beds will be planted. We’re startling to eat out of it, but the harvest for storage won’t really start until August. July is hereby dedicated to fencing. I did a parry in septime to [...]

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Spring Madness Continues

June 4, 2010

We have our first farm-bred goslings! Two of the geese had already abandoned their nests when the one in the middle of the foundation hole hatched eight goslings on Tuesday. All six grown up geese are ecstatic. We are too. We think we’ve figured out what will get us four clutches next year: 1. Toulouse [...]

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Mid May Update

May 16, 2010

I finally got the jammed bale spear off the tractor bucket. I’d bought an SAE grade 8 bolt to attach it with, largely because that was all Tractor Supply had in the correct size (3/4×2.5). I recall thinking that it was a stressful enough use that the extra money probably wasn’t wasted. However the nut [...]

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Garden Month

May 12, 2010

May is ‘Get in the Garden’ month here. The last frost date used to be Memorial Day, but over the last few years it’s been more like May 15. We’re hoping that last night’s frost was the last, but we’ll be holding the tomatoes and peppers indoors for at least a week to be sure. [...]

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