how does your garden grow?

Brody approves of our new squash garden. The squash approves of the new space too!
Peas, beans, corn, onions, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, lettuce, beets, radishes, potatoes all seem to be growing well - along with pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, and zuchini!

a neighbouring piece of property is for sale

just a beautiful site- that "finishes" our farm in some way ... honeysuckle, raspberries, wild strawberries, ridges, HUGE shag bark trees, cherry trees ... lovely

need to win a lottery 

weed, weed, read, weed ...

planted tomatoes, peppers, various squash, an eggplant a couple of weeks ago and corn, pea, pumpkin lettuce seeds

everything is coming up well with weeds at the head of the pack ...

so I weed

... and I weed

... ... and then I weed

some more ... feel a little guilty as lots of the weeds are black eyed susans, and daisies ... it was easier when I didn't recognize what the weeds were


squash bed seems to be working well ... fingers crossed we don't get long hot dry days on days I can't get here to water ...

how does your garlic grow?

ours is doing very well :)

also planted potatoes and lettuce and peas this weekend  (and Big T planted sunflowers along the front fence - I really hope they work for him!)  We are way behind last year but what can you do?

Ordered the chicks for June 29... woooo booy

Need to decide if I'll just add 3 layers to that mix or trust fate to land some chickens in my lap again ...

Too wet to plant .. but never too wet for a quick trip to Paradise (aka Point Petre). Had the big dogs with us .. and we were about the only life forms there! Lovely!

planting and gardening in the rain ...

Yup .. .that was me today .. and Big T too.

Planted beets, radishes, carrots and got 4 beds ready for planting.
Peas tomorrow I hope.

It was very very wet. The lack of a lawn mower is making it even wetter as long grass hold water like nothing else! At least the leak hasn't started up. I'll take whatever blessings where ever I can find them. Tulips are lovely at the moment.

and now we build an ark ...

9 times out of 10 ... heck 99 times out of 100 I love living in a 134 year old house but when it pours cold miserable rain and the front porch leak starts up I HATE it. We have tried to find the leak; gotten experts to track down the leak yet nothing we do works. The rain starts and  we cross our fingers and hope it ends soon. Not today. One leak starts; then another; then another. Very frustrating.

Seeds sit waiting for the weather to catch up to ambition.

The new garden for melons looks neat - we scavenged some neat rocks to mark the boundary - now I need to decide what's going in there ... pumpkins? zucchini? cucumber? melons?  some combination? I just don't know what to try first.

Sally dog is miserable today. She is curled up in a ball by the fire. She wouldn't even get up to come to town. Most unlike her so I hope she is just disgusted by the rain not fighting something.

and another season starts ...

you can hardly see the schoolhouse!

yup 60 onions in (240 to go)
two short rows of carrots and radishes ..
garlic all poked back to bed (some of it always comes to the surface through the freeze up and melting)

new bed (was a flower bed that got entirely overgrown) turned over ready for tilling to be the melon/cuke or zucchini bed

more wood split

a good day's work

and that doesn't include the long pleasure walk we took either!

Another Day in Paradise

Yes, I should have been planting or at the very least cleaning up the garden but who can resist a trip to paradise? We had the entire beach to ourselves (over a kilometre) and it was gorgeous.

melting snow ...



Dog reversal .. Kizmet wants in; Sally wants out!



and growing garden ... it's still not nice enough out for little old man Kizmet to want to be out though! We are off for a week and looking forward to it. Sally has already fallen through the pond once.

I was busy poking garlic back into the ground and watching carrots come to life .. We

collecting fermented apples on the ground and tossed them into the compost.

I'm hoping it's a drying week that stays above freezing so I can get the onions in ... (300 of them - spanish, yellow and red). Yum!