HomeGrownVegetables

I Wrote last time about the fall garden stuff being overall not that good, as I look back though it is doing as good as it can with the drought and all. Not to mention that I forgot about the tomatoes that were looking fairly good, when you keep the chickens off of them.

Fall Tomatoes

More Tomatoes

The plants look like they are growing just a little slower than they would in the spring, but they are chugging along, and they are loaded with blossoms!

Blossoms

The cabbage and brussels sprouts are growing well , along with the last of the peppers that were planted in the spring.

We also have a pecan tree as well as several wild persimmon trees that grow around here that are getting ripe and ready.

The pecan has started to look alot better from seasons past, I started a  fertilzer treatment this year and it made quite a few more nuts, and they started dropping this week.

Pecans

What can you say about the persimmons, they are a wild variety , so they put out a large crop darn near every year, but don’t try em till they are completely ripe….its an awful dreadful fruit until then hehehehe.

Persimmons

Here on the farm we have planted a few fruit trees, a fig or two, two plums and a nectarine. The fig we planted last year, and it was going good until the freak spring weather we had this year. It started budding and had a few leaves coming on when the late freeze hit, I really thought it was gone.  But that little tree really recovered nicely.

Fig Tree

As I was Making the rounds yesterday, I noticed some large figs on the tree. Now just to be clear the actual fruits have been growing for a month or so, so they didn’t just pop up yesterday. The difference is they are twice the size of the smaller unripe ones.

Figs

We did finally get some rain this last week, maybe the extra water made them swell a bit. Whatever it was it worked, hopefully we can keep the birds off of them too!

Lucille Is Getting Close!

Lucille, one of our milk cows, is about to have another calf for us.  Last year Lucille surprised us by calving a week after we had her Artificially Inseminated. This time we put her out with a bull and let nature take its course, should be any day now!

Lucille, The Expectant Mother!

Here is the view from the front!  I’ll keep you updated!!

Lucille Front View

Until next time!