Baymule’s 2020 Garden

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Thank you @seedcorn. I have worked hard on my sand beach......now where is that ocean? LOL

Last night's supper all came from our land. Chicken breast and broccoli stir fry, Kentucky Wonder beans, sliced Cherokee Purple tomato and spiced pickled beets. It was delicious.

Today we are back at work on cleaning out the sheep barn. I practice deep litter, the round bale is parked in the barn, so there is lots of waste hay. The top layer is always dry, guineas and chickens scratch through it, keeping it turned. The bottom layers are hard packed, but still no smell. In the past, we have pried it up in chunks and spread it on the garden, some in the pastures. But the big chunks are hard to spread. So we borrowed neighbor Robert's tiller and are tilling the hard pack in place, then raking it up, shoveling it into the mule and spreading it on pastures to help the soil and struggling grass. Yesterday we took out 6 loads and spread on a pasture. We have already dug gown to dirt in two small pens that yielded enough rich black crumble to spread on 2 pastures. (my pastures are small) We took 6 loads out of the main barn and have barely scratched the surface. Today will mark Day 8 of The Great Barn Clean Out. We have a neighbor kid helping us, he's 12 and a huge help. He spied a boat trailer on the first day and struck a deal to work it off. He wants to build a tiny house on it. His dad said he's been talking about a tiny house for 2 years, this kid is excited about his boat trailer. He takes it home today! We are taking a week off on the sheep barn, we are getting our 3 grand daughters tomorrow! Time to enjoy them, the sheep barn will still be there next week.
 

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Yesterday I canned 6 pints of green beans.

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Thank you @seedcorn. I have worked hard on my sand beach......now where is that ocean? LOL

Last night's supper all came from our land. Chicken breast and broccoli stir fry, Kentucky Wonder beans, sliced Cherokee Purple tomato and spiced pickled beets. It was delicious.

Today we are back at work on cleaning out the sheep barn. I practice deep litter, the round bale is parked in the barn, so there is lots of waste hay. The top layer is always dry, guineas and chickens scratch through it, keeping it turned. The bottom layers are hard packed, but still no smell. In the past, we have pried it up in chunks and spread it on the garden, some in the pastures. But the big chunks are hard to spread. So we borrowed neighbor Robert's tiller and are tilling the hard pack in place, then raking it up, shoveling it into the mule and spreading it on pastures to help the soil and struggling grass. Yesterday we took out 6 loads and spread on a pasture. We have already dug gown to dirt in two small pens that yielded enough rich black crumble to spread on 2 pastures. (my pastures are small) We took 6 loads out of the main barn and have barely scratched the surface. Today will mark Day 8 of The Great Barn Clean Out. We have a neighbor kid helping us, he's 12 and a huge help. He spied a boat trailer on the first day and struck a deal to work it off. He wants to build a tiny house on it. His dad said he's been talking about a tiny house for 2 years, this kid is excited about his boat trailer. He takes it home today! We are taking a week off on the sheep barn, we are getting our 3 grand daughters tomorrow! Time to enjoy them, the sheep barn will still be there next week.
 

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Today our 3 year old granddaughter did chores with me, then we went to the garden. We picked a few ears of Painted Mountain corn, pulled the shucks back, tied them with Feed sack string and hung them from a 2x4 in the portable building. I explained to her that I would make cornmeal out of the corn for our cornbread. She loved all the colors and is ready to eat cornbread. LOL

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Today our 3 year old granddaughter did chores with me, then we went to the garden. We picked a few ears of Painted Mountain corn, pulled the shucks back, tied them with Feed sack string and hung them from a 2x4 in the portable building. I explained to her that I would make cornmeal out of the corn for our cornbread. She loved all the colors and is ready to eat cornbread. LOL

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I dont blame her, that looks delicious! So you harvest when it's still not completely dry and let it dry hanging up like that?
 

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I dont blame her, that looks delicious! So you harvest when it's still not completely dry and let it dry hanging up like that?

I like to let it get a little drier, this was more for her benefit. Maybe in that hot building, it will get dry enough for us to get out the grain mill and make cornbread.

Sometimes I do pull it a little early because of corn worms or too much rain. Very few worms out there and weather is dry.
 
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I planted Royal Golden Watermelons. Beautiful! Red meat, the rind turns golden when ripe. A no brainer! Yes! NOW I’ll know when they are ripe! Even the vines are pretty!!

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My very first one! I’m so proud of my beautiful watermelons!

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We cut it open, it was delicious. The only problem was so many seeds! So many that there are more seeds than melon! What a bummer. Not even worth eating the darned things. Phooey. :(

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I think what I’ve done is grow some lovely treats for the pigs, sheep and horses.
 

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