“We got here at the perfect time,” Ethan said when we arrived to do the chores. “We missed most of the rain.” It then proceeded to pour for hours. I’ve never seen the paths become ankle-deep creeks with tiny rapids before. It felt like we got four inches in an hour, but it was more…
Category: Organic Gardening
In The Garden: Looking On The Bright Side
It’s so fun having a baby goat around! Yesterday after I milked Matilda I was sitting in the grass waiting for Ethan to finish milking Geranium. He browsed around and then sat right down beside me and chewed his cud as if I were another goat. Well, it’s Thursday again, and Night Hawk is cute,…
In the Garden: First Tomatillos
It’s been a soaking wet week this week. A spattering of intense rain storms has cooled the weather off, making it possible to move fast enough to work in the garden. I think that’s why nothing gets done down here in the South like it does up North. It’s too hot to move most of…
In the Garden: Kohlrabi, Kohlrabi, Kohlrabi
As I have said before, the winter garden is in decline, but we are still suffering through the kohlrabi. Well, perhaps suffer is too strong a word, because I really do like it, although it doesn’t seem as versatile as the lettuce was, when you eat it every night for dinner (and lunch). While it…
In the Garden: Welcoming Summer
The winter garden is at the point of maturing and declining. I could re-plant things, but I am happy to let what we have still be enough. This way, all our attention is on laying the foundations of our summer garden. In the very warm weather, the brassicas have burst into bloom, broccoli going to…
Work is Love
Worked slavishly in the garden over the weekend. Three beds were built on Friday – some in driving rain. Two and a half on Saturday. I couldn’t move Sunday, just flopped around on a blanket in the shade with Clothilde while Ethan took over and built another three and a half. Something about heaving the…
In the Garden: Beets!
It was such a surprise to pull these beautiful beets out of the garden this week! Despite my dad’s claims that growing beets is “easy” (I have never seen him grow a beet as long as I’ve been alive), I have not had any luck with them until this year. They really don’t like Florida’s…
In the Garden: Beautiful Veggies
All my focus has lately been on building the summer garden beds. March snuck up on me this year! I was supposed to be finished with most of it by now! Every evening after I finish milking Matilda and the goats I hurry to fork up some of the cow’s spilled hay and manure to…
In the Garden: Planting Potatoes and Hidden Gold
This week we finally got around to planting 15 lbs of potatoes. A little late this year, but we did eventually get it done. We got three varieties this year – Pontiac, Kennebec, and La Soda. We didn’t till the soil this year (tiller has a flat tire, among other problems), but ran the chickens…
In the Garden: Savoy Cabbage and Kohlrabi
It’s been so beautiful – except for Tuesday, of course. That was an awfully dreary day, although I’m sure the rye loved it. Hopefully the Snow Queen’s blossoms didn’t freeze in the cold spell last night. The garden is put to bed under the cold-protection again. The savoy cabbage was ready – it turned out…
In the Garden: Cauliflower, Onions, and Carrots
The cauliflower is ready! A major gardening victory – I LOVE cauliflower, but I have been unsuccessful growing it until this year! I have a few more plants, but I am definitely going to plant a whole lot more next year! I pulled the first planting of carrots. It’s my fault they aren’t nicer –…
In the Garden: Broccoli and Cabages
It’s been a good week in the garden. I got some new veggies finally other than kale, collards, radishes, lettuce and turnips. I made an amazing cole slaw salad with the red cabbage. It think it was because it was so fresh, but it seemed sweeter and crispier than any cabbage I’ve had before. The…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 