Angeka On The Farm

CREATING A RURAL LIFE.

You Can’t Keep A Good Garden Down

Posted on November 15, 2009 - Filed Under Activism, cabbage, farm maintenance, planting, sunflowers, tomatoes, vegetables | Leave a Comment

Despite my best efforts to ignore it, the garden just will not go away! I haven’t hoed or sown or watered in months (just don’t ask), yet still hot peppers, green & yellow bell peppers, chinese eggplant, sunflowers and even tomatoes are still popping up. Amazing.
I also have bottle gourds and one, just [...]

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The frozen georgian tundra

Posted on January 15, 2009 - Filed Under animals, dog, donkey, frost, goats, horse, spring, sunflowers, weather | Leave a Comment

Now I know, I know, it’s cold everywhere, even in the frigid south, but hey, it’s my blog, get you’re own!
These are the times when being 40 minutes north of the Florida line and 7 hours above south Florida really count. It’s freakin’ freezing (literally, below) here! Which is bizarre considering last week, we had [...]

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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 [...]

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My pet rock

Posted on October 12, 2008 - Filed Under birds, crafts, green market, products, seeds, sunflowers | Leave a Comment

John and I are always trying to find that simple “thing” that is easy to make and market, and everyone wants. Hopefully, it would be more useful than a pet rock, but it follows those same rules that made everyone buy a rock in a box…you know you had one. I did!
While preparing [...]

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Before and After

Posted on September 6, 2008 - Filed Under seeds, sunflowers | 1 Comment

My beautiful plot of sunflowers is now gone. Their sunny upright faces are now heavy hanging heads of sunflower seeds. Mmmm…sunflower seeds.

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Summer Harvest

Posted on August 18, 2007 - Filed Under Uncategorized, farm maintenance, herbs, spinach, sunflowers, vegetables | Leave a Comment

So I’ve decided to list and describe the vegetables we’ve been able to harvest and, most importantly, eat so far. The one thing I’ve noticed they all have in common is none are like anything I’ve bought in a grocery store. Now, that’s both good and bad.
Even though you go into most grocery [...]

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Beach time

Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under about us, farm maintenance, spinach, sunflowers, vacation, vegetables, weather | Leave a Comment

So the spinach has been pantyhosed and is on its way to the big spinach garden in the sky.  It didn’t die of embarrassment from the ill-fitting and baggy hosiery.  It successfully fulfilled its spinach bearing duties, flowered and is slowly and peacefully becoming compost.  The pantyhose is to catch the seeds which will hopefully [...]

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