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Friday, September 16, 2011

Our Watermelons Made a Comeback!

After a brutually warm summer (most people I know's garden didn't do well, just because the heat was so bad). Well, now we've had a reprieve...a bit. We've had some cooler weather and some rain & here we go. Our watermelons have made a remarkable comeback! Take a look at this watermelon, just picked from the garden :-)

Pictured Here: Our Golden "Glow" Watermelons. They're Huge!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

tomatoes

Heirloom Tomatoes

by Chemeeka 7:26 AM

This morning's fresh-picked produce:

Our Cantelope

by Chemeeka 7:23 AM

Monday, June 27, 2011

WORLD'S BEST- Corn!!!

by Chemeeka 7:23 PM

This is the very best corn that I have EVER HAD!!! Serious!!!

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Patty-Pans!

by Chemeeka 9:34 PM

I know, I know...patty pans are not the only thing on the plate but....we have Patty-Pans! And yellow (summer) squash and zucchini. Hoorah! I'm sorry. I know that you're probably thinking that the excitement isn't that necessary...but it is! Trust me, when you've had a whole summer of this kind of stuff galore and then all of a sudden you don't and you go to the store and you're paying like $2-3 bucks just for a couple squash..you'd be jumping up and down too.

Happy Summer :-)

-The Farmer's Assistant

Friday, May 20, 2011

More Pics

by Chemeeka 11:16 AM

Here's the row of turnips, beets, and leeks:

The onions:

The lettuces, kale, then the peas. (Behind that are the carrots, and the swiss chard):

Side view:

Amazing Garden!

by Chemeeka 11:04 AM

I haven't actually been "out" to the garden awhile...I mean. I see it everyday but for the first time in a while, today, I actually went out and took a walk through it. I was taken aback at how amazing it looked :-)

This is the middle of our four-way walk way:

Here you can see the potatoes, the onions, and the corn in the background.

Also, right next to the onions, just to the right of them are the yellow turnips.

Here are the potatoes up close:

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Check out our onions!

by Chemeeka 9:46 PM

Here are a few of our onions that we started to go to seed. Check out the size of these babies!

Here's one of the little flowers (about to bud on the end) from the seed

stock. You can see here that it's just starting to go to seed.

So here's what the big deal is all about...just less than three months ago this is what these onions "used to" look like:

Here they are just planted (Feb. 2011)

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Egg Tracker Sheet

by Chemeeka 1:37 PM

Monday,March 14,2011- five eggs
Tuesday, March 15, 2011-four eggs
Wednesday, March 16, 2011-five eggs
Thursday, March 17, 2011-three eggs
Friday, March 18, 2011-five eggs
Saturday, March 19, 2011-two eggs
Sunday, March 20,2011-four eggs
Monday, March 21,2011-three eggs
Tuesday, March 22,2011-five eggs (three brown, two white)
Wednesday, March 23, 2011-four eggs (three brown,one white)
Saturday, March 26,2011-triple duty, ten eggs (eight brown, two white), and one additional egg from this day! (So that makes a total of 11 eggs)!
Sunday, March 27, 2011-no eggs?
Monday, March 28, 2011-five eggs (three brown, two white-one from each chicken)
Tuesday, March 29, 2011-five eggs (three brown, two white-again, one from each chicken :-)
No Eggs Wednesday (March 30,2011-the chickens were on strike :-)
Thursday, March 31,2011-8:30am two eggs (one brown, one white) We'll see if we have more later.
Friday, April 1, 2011-five eggs (three brown, two white)
Saturday, April 2,2011 four eggs (three brown, one white)
Sunday, April 3, 2011-five eggs (three brown, two white)
Monday, April 4,2011-three eggs (two brown, one white)
Thursday, April 7,2011-no eggs
Friday, April 8, 2011-four eggs, (three brown, one white)-these might actually be yesterday's eggs.
Saturday, April 9, 2011-four eggs, (three brown, one white)
Sunday, April 10, 2011-three eggs (all brown)
Monday, April 11, 2011-four eggs (two brown, two white)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011-three eggs (two brown, one white)
Wednesday, April 13, 2011- two eggs (one brown, one white)
Thursday, April 14, 2011- five eggs (three brown, two white)
Friday, April 15, 2011-three eggs (three brown eggs)
Saturday, April 16, 2011- five eggs (three brown, two white eggs) 7:09pm
Sunday, April 17, 2011- three eggs (two white, one brown)
Monday, April 18, 2011- two eggs (two brown)
Tuesday, April 19, 2011-three eggs (two brown, one white)
Wednesday, April 20, 2011-four eggs (three brown, one white)
Thursday, April 21, 2011-five eggs (one of each-three brown and two white)
Friday, April 22, 2011-five eggs (three brown, two white)
Saturday, April 23, 2011- three eggs (one white, two brown)
Sunday, April 24, 2011- four eggs (one white one in the morning & three brown in the evening)
Monday, April 25, 2011-four eggs (three brown & one white)
Tuesday, April 26, 2011-
Wednesday, April 27, 2011-three eggs (three brown)
Thursday, April 28, 2011-three eggs (two brown, one white)
Friday, April 29, 2011-five eggs (one of each)
Saturday, April 30, 2011-four eggs (three brown, one white)
Sunday, May 1, 2011-five eggs (one of each)

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Garden Variety

by Chemeeka 12:04 PM

There's so much going on in the garden, and so much to keep up with...in a good way though. These are the veggies that we've got growing up on our top window sill. We started these plants a while back. I believe if you look in the back right of the pic, you'll see our dill.

The other thing that we've got going on (which we have now moved to the sunroom-and have been transplanted) are the artichokes. There were all together in one small container until Papa, transplanted them and moved them to their own little pots. Neat, huh?

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Our Eggs

by Chemeeka 8:51 AM

We hardly ever get an egg that is as speckled as this one (front right) They're usually either a solid brown or solid white. There's not usually one that's speckled. I thought that this one was so cute and worth posting :-)

Sunday, April 3, 2011

The Garden's been plowed up

by Chemeeka 9:52 PM

We just got our garden plowed up today...how exciting! Take a look :-)

Friday, April 1, 2011

Precious Little Bird Eggs

by Chemeeka 7:20 PM

Here is what new life looks like in our bird nest back behind our house. A mama bird has made this nest her home for her newly laid three little speckled eggs. I tried to grab these picks this evening before she returned...

Aww....

Thursday, March 31, 2011

More Transplating

by Chemeeka 8:23 PM

Just so we keep up with what we're doing when, last night Papa transplated (into new pots) our:
sweet basil
genovese basil
cilantro
dill

Good going Papa!

Saturday, March 26, 2011

The pea fences were put up

by Chemeeka 8:11 PM

...And the lettuces where planted.
If you'll look just to the right side here, the far right row, you will see the pea fences that were put up.

Now what you can't see is the really neat netting that Papa put in between each of these rows,

where the wood posts are.

Perfectly spaced.

And looking good. ;-)

Papa went out and planted the peas the next day, Sunday, March 27th and the day after that, Monday,

March 28th, 2011.

Triple Duty-Egg Tracker

by Chemeeka 4:15 PM

Here are the eggs for today. I guess that we've missed getting the eggs for a few days now. Papa went out to get the eggs today and about two hours ago there were only seven of them (six brown and one white) and now there were three more eggs (two brown and one white). Those last three would be today's eggs. Looks like we haven't went out and gotten them since Thursday...whooops!

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Planting Potatoes

by Chemeeka 6:20 PM

Potatoes, potatoes, and more potatoes. We are going to be some happy folk when it comes time to harvest these taters. Take a look at the variety that we're planting out today. This years potatoes were planted today, Sunday, March 20, 2011.