The Edible Garden: Wow! It’s been a Month!?

It’s been a whole month since I posted?! A lot has happened! That tarantula startled me. I pick up Giotto’s dinner bucket in the front room, scoop some kibble in the living room then take it in the kitchen to add to it. I didn’t see the tarantula until I was setting it down in the kitchen so I have no idea where it came from.

The zinnias are the only thing the goats and rabbits haven’t eaten or trampled here by the steps up to the hill pen.

The Trombonccino squash are doing well.

I lost all the tomatoes in one garden because it still has root knot nematodes.

I rehomed some little Nankins. Have a few more to go

The dahlias are starting to bloom

A few sunflowers also.

Some new goats arrived. This is Vicki

Bambi

Bambi’s doeling Storm and Showers Showers and Bambi had summer pneumonia so it’s been a long week of taking temperatures twice a day, antibiotic injections and vitamins. They are doing much better now.

Maximilian sunflowers are blooming

Some pumpkins are showing up

Along with squash and cucumbers

I got the T posts set for another cattle panel to finish making a terrace in the hill pen. But now the truck is broke and I can’t go get one.

If I forget to chain the gate Caramel or her kids get it open and then they bust out Chocolate and Gazelle

Really? I swear I don’t know how goats manage to do some of the stuff they do. That was a brand new tarp.

Caramel cannot be hurried when going to and from the hill pen and insists on browsing along the way, no matter how late I’ll be for work.

The mixed kale I planted last month is big enough to start picking.

Oops. I forgot again.

Herbs and squash at market

And some little cayenne peppers

Can you see that cream line? That is 3 pints of milk with almost a cup of thick cream!

I was getting ready to make cheese so I bent a spoon and skimmed all the jars.

I got almost a pint of cream. I put it in the freezer until I get more. Then I’ll make something… creme fraise or sour cream or maybe whip cream for my iced coffee.,,,

And the truck is broken. Sigh. Hopefully an easy fix. My mechanic says might of shorted out. Or maybe just wore out over time. I’m thinking this might be the root cause of all the electrical problems it’s had.