Farmer Friday

tomato seedlings

The tomato seedlings are up! I'll be putting them into bigger soil blocks on Sunday.

broccoli, cauliflower, pak choi and lettuce

This week saw the second terrace and bed put in the new garden. I planted over 200 transplants into it, broccoli, cauliflower, baby pak choi and lettuce.

sage and rosemary planted below the wall

I planted some culinary sage and rosemary along the base of the retaining wall. They will catch and use water that seeps down from the garden.

Suzy in the back, Edda and Giotto

Edda is settling in well. Still a little skittish, especially with visitors or if I move too quick or make a loud noise.

one gap left

Today I worked on the fence around the garden. There is one little gap left to plug up.

fence at moms house

I worked on fence at mom's house too. Plugged up the gap where Edda was getting out of the yard.

Front yard pallet fence

I spent one morning working on trimming vines and shrubs and adding to the pallet fence around my front yard. A little more to go and I can start working on planting in the front yard without fear the pigs will get into it.

I spent this morning getting ready for the Superior Farmer's Market tomorrow. I picked baby pak choi, red mustard, cilantro. Egg production is picking up so I'll have lots of eggs. I may get a few more herbs picked too.

GRRRRR DOGS! November 11, 2009

GRRRRR DOGS!

November 11, 2009 at 2:49 pm

Well the !@#@#!!! dogs returned! They mashed down the 6 foot tall chicken wire I put up and attacked the chickens again! There is one hen and one chick left. I am just glad they didn’t go after the rabbits this time. I am angry, sad, tired, disgusted and depressed. My world and my life that I am trying to build are falling apart.

SKUNK! November 4, 2009

SKUNK!

November 4, 2009 at 2:53 am

Well, I put up some chicken wire and made the hens enclosure bigger, including the rabbit cages and space for the little chicks. Well I know it won’t stop a dog but at least it will slow them down a couple of minutes.
Tonight I heard the little chicks squaking out there and there was a !@#@#!! skunk in there, with a chick by the head. I shone my flash light on it and it went out and I brought the chicks in. The hurt one probably won’t live the night. The others seem ok, just excited.
A few minutes later I was in the kitchen and could see that the skunk had returned to the scene of the crime, so I got my gun and shot it. yeah, one less skunk in the world.

chickie update October 29, 2009

chickie update

October 29, 2009 at 1:59 pm

Well some good news. the two hurt chickies seem to be doing better. One has been up walking around for a couple of days. The other one that couldn’t stand at all was standiing up this morning.
Some bad news. I didn’t put small enough mesh wire on the rabbit cages and a little bunny fell out and died. Also, the 50 or broccoli and cauliflower seedlings that were ready to go in the garden were sitting on top of one of the rabbit cages that the dogs tore apart, so now I have to start over there too.

SLAUGHTER HOUSE October 27, 2009

SLAUGHTER HOUSE

October 27, 2009 at 12:54 am

I came home to a slaughter house. 3 big dogs, somebody’s pets! tore open a rabbit pen and killed one of my bucks and injured another one. They got in to the baby chicks and killed most of them. There are only 5 left out of 14 and 2 of them are injured; I”m not too sure they will make it.
The worst thing is that my gun jammed so I couldn’t get even one shot off at them, or they would be dead dogs right now.
Be sure you keep your dogs at home because if they come to my place they aren’t gonna leave.