We got a whole truckload of mulch from a local arborist — a lot of pine, so it smells really good.
Category: Homesteading
Garden Fence
And today we added the electric fence around the garlic — it’s almost time to harvest the garlic and get our broccoli and cabbages into the bed
Corn Fencing
We put an electric fence up around our corn on the farm — wanted to document what we’ve got
Corn Spacing
A note so we can (hopefully) avoid over-seeding corn in the future — we want to have a foot between the plants in each row and 30″ between rows. Scott’s seen between 20″ and 30″ row spacing — so we can go denser than this if we want to increase the number of plants.
Proto Hazelnuts
Hazelnut forming — June 30
Proto-Hazelnuts (A few days later)
The proto-hazelnuts are starting to look more like hazelnuts!
Anya noticed that there is a little disc forming if you look from the bottom.
Proto-Hazelnuts
We have observable little proto-hazelnuts forming!
Garlic Scapes
I harvested two large shopping bags stuffed with garlic scapes today. I’ll blanch and freeze a bunch; but, this year, I am going to try pickling some garlic scapes too.
Barn Cat Freedom Day
Today was the first day our two older kittens got to play outside. They were cautious at first; but, by the evening, they were running across the back patio chasing each other and playing in the grass. When Anya went to bed, they ran up to the patio outside of her room, and they came right inside when she opened the door.
Heirloom Planting
We started our three sisters planting today — about 660 sq ft of tilled soil. I found an open pollinated SH2 corn developed by Kultursaatin in Germany, which we planted today. Anya interspersed the field with Rouge Vif D’Etampes pumpkins. In about two weeks, we’ll add scarlet runner beans. Even if we don’t produce enough to sell this year, we’ll grow enough seeds to expand the garden area this year.
