Category: Gardening and Harvesting
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Garden Bounty
I have a black thumb. I have been known to kill plants easily. However, this year, my stepdad is staying up here, and he always has a garden. We’re doing one, too. It’s been a wild success – lots of peppers and tomatoes, and even a large batch of peas, not to mention the lettuce… Continue reading
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Eating the Melon!
We decided to see if the melon that I harvested was any good to eat. It was wonderful, so we ate the whole melon! It was so sweet and tasty. I saved the seeds to potentially replant next year since it’s an open-pollinated variety. Continue reading
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Harvesting the Last of the Garden
With a frost coming, it was time to harvest the last of the garden. My only other crops left were melons. One was a watermelon and one was a cantaloupe. The only one that reached a respectable size was the cantaloupe. It’s not ripe yet, but I harvested it anyway. Better gardeners than I have… Continue reading
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My Black Thumb Strikes
The second crop from my garden was going to be corn. However, this is the sum total of all the ears we got. Most of them are only partially filled with kernels. I threw away a lot. I noticed that when I was picking them, there were lots of earwigs, especially in the tops. The… Continue reading
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Farm Tour Days and Garden Woes
The West Elks Wine Trail Tour is this weekend, so we put up all of our farm tour signs. Unfortunately, my black thumb is finally starting to work. The main batch of corn isn’t doing well. They’re pale green with brown and drying leaves. The corn I transplanted into the main part of the corral… Continue reading
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Second Harvest
The second pea harvest has been much larger than the first. The corn is growing well, but the melons aren’t doing much. Continue reading
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Our First Harvest!
My black thumb hasn’t killed anything yet, and I harvested the first of the peas today! OK, so it’s a meager harvest, but there are a lot more growing. These sure tasted good! Continue reading
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Sheep Butchering and a Garden Update
The second batch of rams went to slaughter today. We try to sell and use as much of the sheep as we can. One thing we save from the rams are the horns. They get made into shepherd’s crooks and knife handles. Here, Ken is using a sawzall to cut the horns off the skull.… Continue reading
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Solstice!
It’s time for the solstice. Summer has now officially begun. I still haven’t killed the garden, so I’m pretty thrilled about that. Here is the corn. It won’t be knee-high by the fourth of July, but at least it’s still growing. The peas are doing well. I see a few flowers starting to show now,… Continue reading
