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Tomatoes

The Harvest Starts

July 22, 2010

We made 12 pints of dilly beans the other day with the first harvest of the beans. All three colors (green, yellow and purple) had about the same yield so far. The plants are too close together, which is a mistake we always make, but the bed is pretty weed-free because of that, but it’s [...]

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Gold Stars, please

July 16, 2010

We’ve kept the sheep out of the front garden enough to be able to see the clematis bloom for the first time since we got the sheep. I’d like a gold star, please. (And I’d also like Murphy to look away. There’s nothing to see here!) There are also black-eyed Susans, bee balm and purple [...]

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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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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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A Week Passes Like Nothing

April 20, 2010

We’re fully into the spring rush now. Last Tuesday Lisa took the boy hooligans to Westminster Meats and the girls to Hogwash Farm. We’re swapping gilts with them to expand both of our breeding herds. Albus is from there, and we think he’s great. They only had two unrelated gilts available, but have a couple [...]

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The End of Summer

September 6, 2009

Labor Day is as late as it can possibly be this year. For most New Englanders that meant an extra stolen week of summer. And a lovely week it was. The farm told us that Labor Day was last week. The nights got chilly, the bug count went down, the last few frogs quit croaking [...]

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Volunteers and Hoarding

August 24, 2009

I started harvesting the potatoes today. The entire northeast had wicked blight this year. The earliest late blight on record. The trains are still coming from out west, but many of the folks up in ‘Roostook county were already hanging on by teeth and toenails. Our tomato vines are still alive, and even starting to [...]

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