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Hey ya’ll, I’m Jess from Roots & Refuge Farm
Welcome to a place that feels like home. A small farm with a big family. We hope you’ll pull up a chair, grab some coffee and visit awhile.
There was a time that all I wanted in the world was a little farm where I could raise my family and grow our food. Now, that is exactly what exists outside my door. In watching it unfold, a new dream was formed in my heart – to share this beautiful life with others and teach them the lessons we’ve learned along the way. Welcome to our journey, friend. I am so glad you’re here.
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Leesville SC 29070
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So I went to a meeting last night with Stan McKenzie the citrus man. I want to say he's in Scranton, SC? Not sure if he's close to you but he grows hardy citrus. You should totally check it out. I got a black select satsuma mandarin that I'm very excited to grow!!
The goats may be like fraternal twins, 2 were in one afterbirthand the other one was in a separate placenta. Even identical twins sometimes have separate placentas.
The lettuce in my Greenstalk is already boltinng
Most of my seeds that I planted in the house are up now! Still waiting on habanaba peppers and a few others. So excited and yes, I check them two or three times a day!
I didn't know that bay laurel trees were froat/freeze tender. Just looked it up, and it's good to 20 degF. I've never protected mine, but the coldest temps it's seen is 15 degrees, and it may have lost above ground growth that year. Now I know to protect it.
Yep Bo weevils
I wish they sold flats here in australia, we have to buy our lettuce in either a punnet with 4 plants or in individual pots usually around $4-5 per pot. growing from seeds for more than 4 plants makes it much more economical here
I hope you are planning on planting lots of native ornamentals, along with the passionflower and thyme, which can be invasive.
I plant too early every single year. My husband's like, "you're not gonna do it again you are"? I may or may not have given him side-eye. I'm going to try really hard.
Locally grown plants are not only cheaper most of the time but they are more likely to survive the weather in the place they get planted. There’s nothing worse than growing a much desired plant that was raised in the right climate for it (bugs and all) and then it dying the minute the weather gets ‘normal’ for where it now lives.
What are you going to do with all the goats?
-10 this am at 5:10 when I left for work today …. Snow is almost gone but more in the forecast.
Girl, you will love that elfin time. I bought a couple 5 years ago and it has spread like crazy and it survived our crazy snowmeddon winter last year in TX at -15 temps. It even blooms in the hot summer with the smallest purple flowers and is really a great drought tolerant plant!
For us, the independent, local nurseries do MUCH better on watering and placing thier plants 9n thier grounds. But equally important, the actual varieties and seed through sales conditions are much more closer to what the plants will experience in the customer's yards from the get go. They may not look as pretty nor full bushy top due to constrained root conditions but they survive better with a significant less amount of work.
Love the Bay Leaf Tree! I had one, and I got a second one this past February. I want to make a row of them.
Isn’t a bay laurel a tree?
I planted my lettuce seed in the greenstalk and it grew great!!
i look at my start plants 6 times a day
Noooooo don't plant your passion fruit in your veggie bed. It grows like a weed and will strangle your other plants and grow through the ground under things to your other areas. It also shades out solar lights and then they don't work.
A big pot on a concrete slab is the way to go.
Regards,
A gardener that lost a lot of grapes and plants to the passionfruit vine. Xo
Ooooo, pineapple sage is such a lovely herb to flavour water!
So last Saturday I started seeds but put them in my closet because we had someone coming over Sunday and didn't want them to be like wow you got a lot of containers of dirt lol. I forgot about them and Monday morning pulled them out and put them under a grow light. Wednesday I got home from work and checked on them and had a few sprouts. Today (Friday…6 days after starting) I have all 5 Giant Crimson Tomatoes (MI Gardener), 3/3 Purple Bumble Bee Tomato, 2/3 Rose Tomato, 2/4 Marion Tomato, 3/4 Cherokee Purple Tomato, 2/2 Black Strawberry Tomato, 0/4 Champaign Bubble Tomato. Also my husband has sprouted a Seven Pot Chocolate Pepper. Doing good for 6 days in.
Bay Laurel can't take humidity, i lost 2 of them from cold and then humidity- i use it for my buckets of rice, etc.
You can grow citrus in zone 8 – lemon, lime, satsumas, persimmons, pomegranate, etc- the first yr or two you may have to protect the citrus until it gets acclimated to your environment