Up-the-Creek
Lovin' The Homestead
I love baseball. I'd skip church for that too! 
framing fowl -daily living
- Thread starter framing fowl
- Start date
- Thread starter
- #132
framing fowl
On a mission
Another busy weekend! Went to Fayette Seed yesterday and got 1 grape tomato and 1 cherry tomato plant for my boss who wants to buy fresh veggies off of me. I guess we're going to do sort of like a CSA but she will be our only customer and she'll get delivery 4 days a week when I work! I also picked up 4 ancho pepper plants that she wanted and 1 sweet banana for me. Got those in the ground and our neighbor gave us 3 more raspberries so I got those in beside the ones we planted last fall.
He also gave me a dried sunflower seed head so I'll plant those along our new privacy fence that our neighbor to the East had built. When the privacy fence was put in, the deal was that we got the old chainlink fence so we ended up scrapping the metal because it had trees grown into it and was really old and rusty and sold the double gates for $50 on CL this morning!
Plans for today, photos of the yard/garden, haul more cement blocks that we used for the rain barrels to the back fence where we're putting in a retaining wall, repot seedlings in the greenhouse, plant flower planters for around the yard, transplant volunteer cilantro, mow the lawn, and weed the strawberries. We're also prepping for 12 yards of mulch to be delivered next weekend. Okay, sounds like I need to get out and hop to it! Have a great day everyone!
He also gave me a dried sunflower seed head so I'll plant those along our new privacy fence that our neighbor to the East had built. When the privacy fence was put in, the deal was that we got the old chainlink fence so we ended up scrapping the metal because it had trees grown into it and was really old and rusty and sold the double gates for $50 on CL this morning!
Plans for today, photos of the yard/garden, haul more cement blocks that we used for the rain barrels to the back fence where we're putting in a retaining wall, repot seedlings in the greenhouse, plant flower planters for around the yard, transplant volunteer cilantro, mow the lawn, and weed the strawberries. We're also prepping for 12 yards of mulch to be delivered next weekend. Okay, sounds like I need to get out and hop to it! Have a great day everyone!
- Thread starter
- #133
framing fowl
On a mission
We had rain and storms all last weekend and more this weekend so I haven't gotten much done out there. Still haven't gotten my peas staked up so I might just have to force myself to get out in the rain and get it done. No mowing or weedeating this weekend for sure!
I've got a car full of cardboard that we're going to lay down in the areas we want to mulch for weedcontrol. I'm feeling about 2 weeks behind because we don't have the mulch project done yet. I just want to get it over with so everything can look pretty instead of so weedy and scraggly.
Did make it to the farmer's market and got a comfry and lemon verbena plant for the herb garden! Seedlings are really starting to take off in the greenhouse.
A couple of nights ago we had the first garden radishes! Yummmmm.... Then had a friend over last night to give some lettuce to and introduced her to kombucha. She was very hesitant at first to even take a sip so she sniffed it and then took a big ol' chug a lug. Made me laugh.
Hopefully have 4 items leaving today that people are supposed to pick up off of craigslist. I'm hoping that the rain doesn't keep them away because I want this stuff outta here.
I think gardens are kinda boring compared to y'alls animal adventures but remembering to "bloom where I'm planted".
I've got a car full of cardboard that we're going to lay down in the areas we want to mulch for weedcontrol. I'm feeling about 2 weeks behind because we don't have the mulch project done yet. I just want to get it over with so everything can look pretty instead of so weedy and scraggly.
Did make it to the farmer's market and got a comfry and lemon verbena plant for the herb garden! Seedlings are really starting to take off in the greenhouse.
A couple of nights ago we had the first garden radishes! Yummmmm.... Then had a friend over last night to give some lettuce to and introduced her to kombucha. She was very hesitant at first to even take a sip so she sniffed it and then took a big ol' chug a lug. Made me laugh.
Hopefully have 4 items leaving today that people are supposed to pick up off of craigslist. I'm hoping that the rain doesn't keep them away because I want this stuff outta here.
I think gardens are kinda boring compared to y'alls animal adventures but remembering to "bloom where I'm planted".
- Thread starter
- #134
framing fowl
On a mission
Oh, I forgot, I learned a little bit of local Kentucky weatherlore from my neighbor last weekend. She said that what we had last weekend was "Locust Winter". I guess there are three spring winters in this area. The first is "Dogwood winter". There is usually a bit of a cold chill right when the dogwoods bloom. Followed by "Locust Winter" when the Locust trees bloom. Our final bit of bad weather is "Blackberry Winter" which is when the blackberries bloom.
Think of it as the reverse of Indian Summer. I'd never heard that before. Anyone else have local weather lore for their area?
Think of it as the reverse of Indian Summer. I'd never heard that before. Anyone else have local weather lore for their area?
ohiofarmgirl
Sipping Bacon Martinis
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2009
- Messages
- 5,488
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 189
i just know the one about the forsythia.. 3 more cold snaps/ snows after they bloom
great work on the garden! i'm a big card-board collector too - works great. so do paper feed sacks.
great work on the garden! i'm a big card-board collector too - works great. so do paper feed sacks.
Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
hey there framing fowl!
we're slowly getting our garden in here.
That's really neat about your local weather lore! I don't know anything about local weather here - other than we're supposed to get rain today.
we're slowly getting our garden in here.
That's really neat about your local weather lore! I don't know anything about local weather here - other than we're supposed to get rain today.
- Thread starter
- #137
framing fowl
On a mission
Hey Quail, my window weather report says 100% chance of rain today. 
Our neighbors next door are awesome! One of them grew up in Eastern Kentucky and the other someplace called Panther Ridge. They're in their late 70's and both were on farms so they have a lot of the old country wisdom stored in their brains. We love to sit with them and talk. Then we'll get Grandma (who lives with them) to goin' about the good old days and she's 92 but still pretty sharp.
Our neighbors next door are awesome! One of them grew up in Eastern Kentucky and the other someplace called Panther Ridge. They're in their late 70's and both were on farms so they have a lot of the old country wisdom stored in their brains. We love to sit with them and talk. Then we'll get Grandma (who lives with them) to goin' about the good old days and she's 92 but still pretty sharp.- Thread starter
- #138
framing fowl
On a mission
More rain today so I thought I'd post some pictures of my first efforts at sf gardening. As well as some of our other horticultural adventures.
This is putting in the structures and dirt mid March. Compost in the background. Blackberries along the white fence.
Nectarine tree in the foreground, peas are up in the garden, strawberry bed to the left and behind the bed with peas.
Strawberry bed. Toward the back are the blueberry bushes and the kiwi vine that I need to build a trellis for tomorrow. To the right is a new apple tree we planted last fall.
These are the grape vines that we planted last March. There's volunteer cilantro underneath there. I've got herb planters along the edge of the cement patio.
This is putting in the structures and dirt mid March. Compost in the background. Blackberries along the white fence.
Nectarine tree in the foreground, peas are up in the garden, strawberry bed to the left and behind the bed with peas.
Strawberry bed. Toward the back are the blueberry bushes and the kiwi vine that I need to build a trellis for tomorrow. To the right is a new apple tree we planted last fall.
These are the grape vines that we planted last March. There's volunteer cilantro underneath there. I've got herb planters along the edge of the cement patio.
TTs Chicks
Almost Self-Reliant
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2008
- Messages
- 703
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 136
Nice pics
murphysranch
Super Self-Sufficient
- Joined
- Oct 20, 2009
- Messages
- 1,924
- Reaction score
- 3,920
- Points
- 270
- Location
- Southern Washington State
very nice! everything is so so green, that I'm green with jealousy! My last frost date is in a couple of weeks, so nothing has been planted yet.
