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…
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…
It’s been a peaceful week on Crooked Creek Farm. Even the animals were laying around peacefully. Meet Samson our male Boer Cross goat. He’s laying on top of the hay trough. I don’t how that thing holds him up, because he’s big. The garden is doing well. And as you can see from the pictures,…
This week, our major project was building a rabbit hutch. I got the idea for building it from watching this video, Self-Sufficiency: Part One, it’s a very interesting tour of this guys property. He showed these rabbit hutches, and it’s just what we needed. This is our new rabbit hutch in our backyard. That’s a…
We got some more things planted in the garden this week. The spinach, lettuces, peas, green beans and onions are up and growing. We had 2 tomato plants given to us, and D bought some more. He also bought 12 bell pepper plants, and so many cabbage plants that I lost count. It was over…
We finally worked in the garden this week. I couldn’t believe how tall the grass and weeds had gotten already! That’s me in the straw hat using a wheel hoe that belonged to my husbands Grandfather. As soon as we got one end ready, we started planting. We planted spinach, snow peas, onion sets, mesculen,…
I mentioned last week that another one of our cats had kittens. Here they are….Kittens are so cute. We now have 9 kittens, and 4 adult cats. We’re going to have to give away/sell the kittens. The kids won’t be happy, but what are we supposed to do with 13 cats?! The dogwoods were in…