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This is a very quick update on what is going on here. It has rained every day for about the last two weeks and is supposed to rain every day for the next two weeks too. We are doing as much in the garden as we can, but it is just a wet boggy mess!
We are prepping a bed and planting Candy onions. The soil amendments we used are Blood Meal, Bone Meal, and Black Kow composted cow manure.
We are still trying to find ways to expand the available growing space in our backyard.
We are starting our seedlings for the early spring garden!
We’ve had a couple of question from people about the size of our coop, how it was built, and other chicken questions. We are addressing some of these questions in this video.
We had a little snow storm and a long period of freezing weather. Our garden is pretty much gone. We cleaned up all the dead vegetation and started prepping the garden for spring!
This is an update for the month of December and end of the year!
We set out a lot of the plants we have started from seed. This video shows the new plantings and updates the existing plantings in the garden.
It has grown too cold for the impatiens in our pond filters. We are replacing the impatiens with some fall garden plants. We’ll see how they do!
The last few nights of below freezing temperatures have taken their toll on the Jalapeno’s. We are harvesting them and doing a final weigh in.
We had a pretty productive weekend! We harvested quail, cut firewood, and picked the beans in the garden.
Garden update for October. We have been adding a lot of fall vegetables to the garden. We need a little help identifying a mystery plant. Thanks!!
October 15, 2017 – Harvesting some Blue Lake climbing green beans and other produce from the garden!
Grocery update for the months of August and September. We are on target to meet our goal of spending less than $100.00 per month this year on groceries!
We harvested the first of our new Top Pick Purple Hull Peas along with a lot of other things from the garden. We also dug our sweet potatoes. We show our garden produce weigh in update!!
The foliage on our peas was looking yellow and curled and the plants weren’t growing very quickly. I consulted a friend and he gave us some insight.
This video shows our grocery shopping trips for the month of July. Our goal is to spend an average of $100.00 per month for the year for groceries. This month brings our grocery spending for the year to $717.82. This brings us to an average of $102.55 per month. We have five more months to…
We picked cucumbers, green beans, tomatoes, and peas.
The green beans have slowed down so much that we decided it is time to pull them and plant some more purple hull peas.
We are creating a new strawberry bed with the daughter plants we caught off the plants in our original strawberry bed.
We show how we attach a hose to the pump in the pond to water our garden with our good nutrient rich fish water.
We have integrated Chick into our flock of girls. We closed off her escape route so she has to learn to get along. It’s going fairly well, hopefully it will get smoother for her.
We are planting purple hull peas where we pulled the last two rows of corn. We also plant climbing green beans where the other Roma tomatoes were.
The Roma tomatoes have really slowed down in production, so we decided to pull them. We harvested all the tomatoes from the plants, pulled the vines, and replanted where they were with butter beans.
A week to week look at how our impatiens grew over time in the pond filters.
We are fertilizing our peppers with worm casting tea and chicken dirt. We then mulched the pepper bed with hay.
Groceries for the month of June. We spent $62.03 for food for the month of June. We have spent $604.89 for the year. This brings us to an average of $100.82 per month for food. Our goal for the year is $100.00 per month on average!!
About a week’s worth of garden to table meals and garden harvests. I tried to remember to video everything we picked and what we cooked each day. We only eat a midday meal. We don’t eat breakfast or supper.
