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Seriously, only about 5% of the to do list is done... break time...

This morning I cleared the remains of the hoop house out of the chicken run and dug 1 shovel spit all around the fence inside, maybe 60 feet. Raked it down into a couple piles. He'll till it for me tomorrow hopefully. It's designated to be Trucker's Favorite Corn as it's the north west side of...

I believe I read that maybe 20% of folks have adverse GI reactions. Maybe eat a little at a time. Inulin is supposed to feed the good gut bacteria. Explosive may just be too much of a good thing...

Not here, NW Ohio... overcast, 58-62, feels like it's going to rain any minute. I got morning glories pulled off the fence, chopped out some mulberry seedlings, dragged the wood parts of the hoop house out of the chicken run and the door, did some weed pulling in the garden, fed the dogs/cats...

I do have a question on growing beans for seed saving. I also have beehives that may hunt the garden and crosspollinate but the bees usually are off hunting better nectar sources. Anyway, if I grow the pole beans along my fences and change varieties every 8 feet, can I gather seed from the...

The garden is only weedfree until mid July. When the rains/heat hit, the weeds can grow 3 feet in 4 days and overtake it completely. I work hard in it until July. If I hide inside from the heat and humidity then, it's weed fest... Sometimes hubs will take the weed whip in the pathways. I'm doing...

I figured out how to free range my turkeys and in the spring hunt down their nests, bring them home and relocate them to a turkey pen, set their nest back up and stick them on it. Hens weigh 15-20 lbs and I put the eggs in a 5 gallon bucket lined with straw. It takes laying 1 egg a day until...

I was handed my morning coffee about 5 minutes ago. This morning's offering is Folgers Crystals Classic Roast with added vanilla ice cream... It wasn't until Starbucks came along that I ever even thought to put ice cream in coffee!! Now it's a now brainer. However, I prefer vanilla to Butter...

Those metal roofs can really cut you up if you slip! And get major hot. Best time to roof is spring and fall... Meanwhile...

Nice little supply of new to me dry beans in the mail today! Very pleased...

I checked over the straggle stressed tomato and pepper seedlings. I'd put them out and then it dropped to 41 degrees. Tomatoes turned purple due to cold stress. I have raspberries and blackberries to pot up and I want to repot my blueberries... I'm going to start some beans as well. I have a...

5/27 Turkey hen is still in the garden and she has 6 chicks still (poults is the proper term for baby turkeys.) My girl looks bronze but she is from Narraganset stock and bread Narraganset. Still about 1/2 the poults usually turn up Bronze instead of black and white striped.

Went out at 6:30 am. A few forager bees were already out. Lots of foragers were still in the nuc box in the greenhouse so I sorted out the hive parts and took the one with the most bees in it and set them up AGAIN on top of their old hive in the new location. I piled brush in front of the door...

I've dreamt of owning one of those little babies!! What kind of annual upkeep costs do you have with it??

I plant the flowers with an eye to what my honeybees want, a nice open single flower or a center loaded with pollen. They don't see red (bees) but love blue, white, and yellow flowers. Usually they are leaving the farm itself and flying off who knows where. They go out in early morning and...

I've followed Rosiland's book for 2-3 decades. I was living in California when she published it and may even have a copy... I like profusion zinnias for color and low mounding habit, Borage and Comfrey both have bell like blue blooms. I grow marigolds but probably need more. Mine were saved from...

I put potting them up on my list of things to do!! I have 6 of each of 2 varieties and they are less than 12 inches tall. Mature size 6 feet...

My roofer says his crew can always work in those 100 degree rooftops with breakfast foods but other stuff slows them down... I don't do temps over 80 very well at all... Need to put the barn fan on the garden!!

On your sunchokes. Of the varieties you have are any of them consistently larger tubers? I have some red ones to plant off etsy. I want to get some established locally for food foraging if needed. We have 3 herds of deer that might eat the tops, but I'd like to try. Not too sure I can digest the...

how long from planting to the shrubs taking off and getting big enough to produce fruit? Mine are BlueCrop and BlueRay and supposed to be up to 6 foot bushes... Planted in 2 gallon pots last summer as small rooted cuttings, chewed back by rabbits in the fall, came back this spring quite well...