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Posted on February 21, 2009 - Filed Under animals, compost, donkey, farm maintenance, fertilizer, food safety, goats, horse, ick!, manure, pasture, vegetables, weather | Leave a Comment
Oh today was a lovely day filled with cool, but not cold, temperatures; clear blue skies; no pestering bugs; birds singing. So how did I spend it? Shoveling sh*t. Sorry, I suppose I could have used a “nicer” word (I do consider myself a G-rated site), but when it comes down to [...]
Read More..>>It’s not just the economy seeing a downturn
Posted on November 3, 2008 - Filed Under compost, cost of living, economy, frost, pecans, planting, seeds, spinach, sunflowers, trees, vegetables | Leave a Comment
Our gardens and our pecan trees seem to be following in the footsteps of our economy. Not much there.
Summer gardens did really well. Just about everything grew well and bore fruit. My pepper and eggplants are still going strong. Yet we had meager returns on seeds planted this fall. Out of 15+ seeds planted for [...]
Horse Tricks
Posted on May 6, 2008 - Filed Under animals, compost, horse | 1 Comment
So the horses, Beautiful and Brutus, have been here several weeks now. They seem to have settled right in with the rest of the menagerie. The large pasture is now covered in large mounds of horse poop. Good: lots of manure for compost. Not so good: the large pasture [...]
Read More..>>Preparations
Posted on August 19, 2007 - Filed Under compost, farm maintenance, trees, vegetables | Leave a Comment
So most of the plants in our gardens are done for the spring/summer. The cabbage and broccoli has been cleared out. Most of the carrots picked though some remain in the ground due to storage issues. I wonder just how big a carrot can get? I guess we’ll find out. [...]
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