It has been so hot this week! In the 90’s everyday. And that’s not even counting the humidity! So, needless to say, we have not worked in the gardens this week like we should have. Everything is still progressing nicely, though.
Here are apples on the trees in our yard. My husband moved 5 trees from up on the hill down to our yard. Last year was the first time we have apples off them. Which we didn’t even get to eat! I don’t know what ate them, but they were gone! lol I’m thinking these will be good pie apples.
While out walking around taking pictures, I found these berries growing on a bush. Well, the berry vines had grown up the bush. I’m not sure if they are blackberries, or black raspberries. We have both in our yard, and I have a hard time telling them apart, until the berries are full grown. I’ll have to have my husband look at them and see what they are.
This is the comfrey we have growing for the animals. This is Comfrey Bocking 4, which is good for both the goats and chickens to eat, but not for people, according to the information I have. The animals eat it fresh, and we also dry it, and give it to them dry. My goal is to dry enough to make a dent in the amount of hay we buy for winter feeding.
Ah, the front vegetable garden is full of weeds! But the green beans are growing very big, with lots of blossoms. There are two fences there, it’s kind of hard to see in this picture, but green beans are planted on both sides of the two fences
Green bean blossoms and buds. Can’t wait for fresh green beans!
This is the owl protecting our garden. He was an inflatable, but he has holes in him, so he is standing on a stake. Too bad he doesn’t guard our garden against weeds!
This is one of this years goat kids that we will be selling this summer.
This is Samson, our buck, standing on the hay trough in front of the barn, peeking around the corner to see what I’m doing. He doesn’t like to miss anything. lol
There is a yellow summer squash here, as well as a zucchini. The cardboard works great for controlling the weeds.
Here are the blossoms inside one of the squash plants.
I put the flower pictures in another post.
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Thanks for the comment, I was sure I was the only one who had never thought to use a halter.
Looks great!
Thanks for linking up!
~Liz
I love that you use cardboard to control weeds – I've done that too and it works great! We have a turkey farm and we use cardboard to keep the turkeys close to the heaters when they are little – so I've been re-using it in my garden!
Your garden looks like a fun place to be:) Do you milk the goats? I would like to get some for poison oak and blackberry duty…
thanks for sharing~ over from Jami's garden party
Katie, we love using cardboard in the garden, because we hate weeding. lol My husband brings it home from work, so we can get large pieces for free.
Heather, No, we don't milk them, they are meat goats. Although, in February, when we had a mother that wouldn't nurse the kid, my husband tried to milk her, to bottle feed the kid, and Mama would have no part of it, whatsoever. Boer Crosses don't make as much milk as milk goats do. They only make enough for their own kids. We would like to get a milk goat, though.
Goats LOVE blackberry bushes!