After several years of hand working gardens, tending milk cows and goats, raising a few pigs we finally decided to get a tractor. After several weeks of shopping we finally came across Calvin at Allied Power Mart , he made us a deal and we took it.
We got a used rental tractor, Kubota L5740 with [...]
Ok folks, here it is, my homemade seed starting rack! I’m going to use this to get a little head start on my vegetable seeds this year. I tried to start some last year but it just wasn’t enough light is the house with out some serious lighting backup. I think I have that problem [...]
I know I said in a previous post that we get the mild winters, well every now and then Mother Nature pulls a fast one. Friday afternoon, it started snowing here , not a blizzard mind you but snow. This was the earliest recorded snowfall in our area since they started recording stuff like this. [...]
The last three tomatoes of the season have turned red, and we’ll miss the great taste of a red, vine ripe summer tomato, oh well only 5 months till spring!
Now to clean out this area for the next round, or maybe I’ll let this bed sit for a while with a thick layer of compost.
First [...]
We finally got some good rain! For the last two weeks its been coming a shower here and a thunder boomer there, well we finally got a goos hour long soaker.
The rains have been mostly the summer afternoon 10 minute jobs, but this one hung around for a while, about a month too late, everything [...]
Figs are getting ripe and a ripe cow about to pop!
Last time we talked about getting the hay equipment ready, today we get down to the actual haymaking so to speak.
Let’s Cut shall We?
Cutting the hay is really like mowing a large lawn, except you don’t mulch up the grass clippings, you just cut it close to the ground and let it fall [...]