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Saturday On The Farm

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Saturday on the Farm

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a picture of the whole vegetable garden. I was standing in the road when I took this picture.You can see the two large yellow squash plants that are giving us lots of squash.

To the right of the squash plants there is a cantaloupe with 4 or 5 little melons on it. My son loves melon of any kind, and he’s already planning on eating these all himself. lol
To the left of the squash, you can see the two rows of green beans. We’ve gotten a big basketful so far. When these plants have finished, we’ll plant a fall crop of green beans.
It’s also almost time to plant lettuce, spinach and peas again, too.
We’ve also harvested several heads of cabbage, a few green bell peppers, a quite a few yellow squashes this week.
We didn’t get any tomatoes this week, but there are a lot of tomatoes on the vines.
My husband and son dug a hole to put in a water pump. Of course, we had heavy rains, and the whole promptly filled with water. So, if the water ever dries up, we’ll be getting a new pump near the garden and goat barn. It will be so much easier than dragging hoses over from the house.

In animal news, we’re not getting very many eggs at all. But with temps in the 90’s every day, it’s to be expected. We had some sad news this week, one of our goats died. It was one of the babies born earlier this year. It’s always sad when one of the animals dies. 

I put the flower pictures in another post. It works better to split the pictures up, instead of one super long post.

Ok, it’s time for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

To participate, just write a post about your homestead, farm, farmette, or the tomato plant on your deck. Your cows, goats, chicken, or your favorite kitty cat.

In your post, include a link back to me. Then enter your link below.

It’s that easy! Hope to see your link below!

For more gardens, visit Weekend Warriors at It’s a Blog Party. and Tuesday Garden Party at An Oregon Cottage and Oh, How My Garden Grows at Just Trying to Save Money.

Also visit Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Day Dreamer.

Saturday on the Farm

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Saturday on the Farm

Another hot week in Kentucky. Temps in the upper 90’s and a heat index above 100 a couple of days. We had heat advisories this week. I had 2 kids at horse camp this week.Thankfully their instructor watched them carefully and kept them hydrated.

I remembered to take pictures of the tomatoes before we ate them.

We harvested the first yellow squash of the year. We even got twins! We cooked the first ones over the fire, so good!

We also had ALL the goats escape this week. Here they are in the field where they are not supposed to be.

My son on a crutch trying to herd them back to their field. Yeah, they pretty much didn’t care. They were to busy eating. You know, the exact same grass that is in THEIR field! They also found the comfrey in the garden and had a nice snack.

My husband got a bucket of feed and they came running for that.

Finally, back inside! On the right hand side of this picture, you can see the metal post for the gate. It’s a chain link fence gate. See the latch?

This is the second time we have found the gate open, and the goats out. Now I’m wondering, are the goats opening the gate? I know it wasn’t the children. And I know it wasn’t someone wondering in off the street. See this dog?

He’s chained up outside the fence and barn. Someone would have to get through him to open the gate. AND the goats have to get by him to get out of the gate. He didn’t bark and let anyone know the goats were getting out. My son was in the driveway so he would have heard it. I had a nice little chat with the dog, Shadow, about letting the goats out and not telling anyone they were out.  Do you see his tongue sticking out? I think he was giving me a raspberry!

Interesting week with the animals, to say the least! lol

I put the flower pictures in another post. It works better to split the pictures up, instead of one super long post.

Ok, it’s time for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

To participate, just write a post about your homestead, farm, farmette, or the tomato plant on your deck. Your cows, goats, chicken, or your favorite kitty cat.

In your post, include a link back to me. Then enter your link below.

It’s that easy! Hope to see your link below!

For more gardens, visit Weekend Warriors at It’s a Blog Party. and Tuesday Garden Party at An Oregon Cottage and Oh, How My Garden Grows at Just Trying to Save Money.

Also visit Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Day Dreamer.

Saturday on the Farm

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Saturday on the Farm

We had much better weather this week. Not as hot and no where near as humid. So we were able to get out and work in the garden some. And boy does it need it!

We’ve been enjoying eating sugar snap peas. The plants are about gone now. It will be time soon to plant another crop of them. I need to plant more this time, so some will actually make it into the freezer. We all love them, and can often be found standing in the garden eating them right off the vine.

We also enjoyed our first red, ripe tomato this week. I see a few others out there that are almost ready. I’ll try and remember to take a picture before we eat them this time. lol

The blackberries are getting ripe. If the kids pick enough, I’ll make cobbler and jelly. As well as freeze some for cobbler and pie in the winter.

The green beans are getting big. Soon we’ll be eating our full of them, as well as canning them.

And look at the pretty little summer squash that’s about ready to eat. If we get enough, I will also can the squash. I tried it for the first time last year. Their ok, but by the time I bring them to a boil for serving, they are too soggy. So I would like to try again, and see if I can improve. In the past, I’ve always frozen them, but since getting my pressure canner last year, I would like to can more stuff and leave the freezer space for other things. Like meat, and brownies. lol

I watching the goats on the hill. This is the hill right behind our house. The goats climb up and down like it’s nothing, but the top part, above the dirt there, is pretty steep. Us humans have a hard time. Well, the adults. lol The children can also climb up and down pretty easily.

Here’s the sign hanging on our barn.

lol I love that sign! The goats won’t attack, but they have been known to scare people by checking their (the peoples) pockets to see if they have anything to eat. lol

I put the flower pictures in another post. It works better to split the pictures up, instead of one super long post.

Ok, it’s time for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

To participate, just write a post about your homestead, farm, farmette, or the tomato plant on your deck. Your cows, goats, chicken, or your favorite kitty cat.

In your post, include a link back to me. Then enter your link below.
It’s that easy! Hope to see your link below!


For more gardens, visit Weekend Warriors at It’s a Blog Party. and Tuesday Garden Party at An Oregon Cottage and Oh, How My Garden Grows at Just Trying to Save Money.

Also visit Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Day Dreamer.

Saturday On The Farm

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Saturday on the Farm

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.


Ok, it’s time for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

To participate, just write a post about your homestead, farm, farmette, or the tomato plant on your deck. Your cows, goats, chicken, or your favorite kitty cat.

In your post, include a link back to me. Then enter your link below.
It’s that easy! Hope to see your link below!

For more gardens, visit Weekend Warriors at It’s a Blog Party. and Tuesday Garden Party at An Oregon Cottage

Saturday On The Farm

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Saturday on the Farm

After last weeks Get Real Edition, I still haven’t finished the weeding. I really must rally the troops and get the weeding done.

Despite our not weeding, the plants are looking good.

The peas have a ton of blossoms on them.
These are the sugar snap peas, the kind where you eat the whole pod. So yummy and just about ready!
I’ve already eaten the first raspberry of our plants. There are a lot more coming. I would love to be able to freeze some raspberries, but we eat them as soon as they are ready. We are getting more plants every year that are coming up, so eventually, I hope to have enough to freeze for the winter and to sell.
I haven’t posted about the goats in a few weeks. The kids are getting big, and are just about ready to sell. My husband finally got the fence fixed so they don’t get out anymore to eat all my plants.
The first litter of kittens are also ready to leave their mothers and go to new homes. I can’t wait for that! lol

I put the flower pictures in another post.


Ok, it’s time for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

To participate, just write a post about your homestead, farm, farmette, or the tomato plant on your deck. Your cows, goats, chicken, or your favorite kitty cat.

In your post, include a link back to me. Then enter your link below.
It’s that easy! Hope to see your link below!

For more gardens, visit Weekend Warriors at It’s a Blog Party.

Saturday On The Farm

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Saturday on the Farm

It’s the Saturday on the Farm – Get Real Edition!

Let’s see…..I could list the reasons why I haven’t been out working in the gardens, suffice it to say, the gardens are very neglected.

These pictures are in our main vegetable garden. Some of the cabbages are doing well. The heads are just starting to form.

And then some of the cabbages look like this. Pretty sad, huh? The cabbage worms have had a feast. I’m going to get some self rising flour to sprinkle on the cabbages. That works to kill cabbage worms. I’ll try that first, then get some BT San Diego is I absolutely have to. A couple of years ago, they got so bad we had to. 
On one end of the garden we have the spinach and lettuces. If you can actually find them through the weeds. I had to part the weeds to take a picture. 

See the spinach hiding in this picture? We have been eating lettuce and spinach a few times a week. They’re producing enough for salads. We’ve had a lot of rain in the past week, and the weeds are just growing like crazy.

Not all areas of the garden are covered in weeds,though.

Here’s a little bell pepper. Isn’t it cute? I saw quite a few blossoms on the plants, looks like we’ll have plenty of peppers. I love to have enough to freeze to use over the winter.

We’re trying a new kind of green bean that the neighbor gave us. They certainly are growing well. The are very bushy, and are just starting to grow up the fence. I don’t see any blossoms yet, though.

On the other side of the green beans, there are some squash plants in the cardboard. Yeah, there are a few weeds coming up in the cracks. I need to get out there and patch them.

The worst part of the garden, as far as weeds, is where the lettuce and spinach are. I must get out there and weed! The last couple of days have been so hot and humid it’s unbearable to be out more than a few minutes. I went out this morning to take a picture, and the lens on my camera fogged up it was so humid!

I put the flower pictures in another post.


Ok, it’s time for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

To participate, just write a post about your homestead, farm, farmette, or the tomato plant on your deck. Your cows, goats, chicken, or your favorite kitty cat.

In your post, include a link back to me. Then enter your link below.
It’s that easy! Hope to see your link below!

Saturday On The Farm

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Saturday on the Farm

This week, we’ve been eating spinach and lettuce for the garden. So good!

Over the winter, I had to take all the rocks from my herb garden to use in another project. So on Thursday, I put new rocks in. Abby helped me carry and place them. Eventually, there will be a block wall 2 blocks high, with cap stones on top, so I can sit on it while tending my herbs. But for now, I like the rocks.

The horehound didn’t come back this year. So I will have to plant more. I have never been able to get rosemary to grow in this garden, but I shall try again this year. I also need to get the annual herbs planted.
This little tin man was made by a local man. He needs another coat of paint this year, looks like. His joints are starting to rust. lol  In front of the tin man you can see a clover plant. This plant has lots of 4 leaf clovers, and we’ve even found a few 5 leafs on it. 

There are a few volunteer wild strawberries in this garden. Last year, we got a few little strawberries on them. I didn’t see any blossoms this year.

I put together these little planters, and planted some herbs in them. You can see the little seedlings in the bottom pot.

The feverfew is blooming. The original plant was in the herb garden, but it seeded itself in the planter between the herb garden and the stairs, you can see it in the first picture.

The Ecinacea – purple cone flower – are getting so tall. There are a lot of buds on them. There is another little one on the right hand side of the big one. You can’t see it, because the chives have grown so big. Guess its time to trim them back.
You’ll have to excuse the weeds, the free range chickens have something against mulch. I have to get some more garden netting to put over the mulch before I can put any out. Otherwise they spread it all over the yard.

Ok, it’s time for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

To participate, just write a post about your homestead, farm, farmette, or the tomato plant on your deck. Your cows, goats, chicken, or your favorite kitty cat.

In your post, include a link back to me. Then enter your link below.

It’s that easy! Hope to see your link below!

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