I’ll Try

I have received thousands of emails requesting that I post more on the blog. I have been slacking somewhat lately and for that I apologize. I will try harder to post more. We’ve had some bad weather so there hasn’t been as much progress on a lot of things as I had hoped. We did get most of the garden planted. We went with collards, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, eggplant and squash this year. The ground looks good now too. We added a bunch of rabbit and horse poo last fall and tilled it in. Then added more poo this spring and tilled that in too. We’ll have to gather some llama and steer poo as well.

The Locust Trees bloomed last week. They don’t stay in bloom very long but it is pretty when they do.

The robins made a nest in our weeping cherry tree.

I finally got some good weather today to put up more rafters on the tractor port. We had floods last week and this week it turned cold again. Today was chilly but the wind died down.

This steer watched me most of the time I was out there today. I told him he was going to be on the blog.

The peony bloomed.

Lisa has flowers in all the flowerboxes along the porch.

We extended the strawberry patch. We’ll train them into the tilled area. We can plant other stuff in there too. And in case you are wondering…to the soil we added poo.

We should have quite a few strawberries.

Ivy is doing great. She’s eating grain and hay now. She grazes whenever we let her come out. She loves the big leafy weeds.

She got big! We might start taking her down to meet the herd this week or next. She needs to know that she is a sheep. She thinks she’s people.

I love Ivy’s stiff legged little hop-run.

Lettuce on the left, collards on the right. The weedy area is red onions. We were hoping they would be bigger by now so we can weed them. They got hit by a couple of frosts, they might not make it. The lettuce has a little frost damage too.

After the collards is another row of lettuce, tomatoes then squash and the last row is cucumbers.

This is a little cluster of rogue tomato plants that came up from last years rotted fruit. We might have more tomatoes than we can eat.