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 [...]
We have had some pretty cool temps around here for the last month, also alot of rain too. Everything is one big, cold, mud puddle so doing anything around the garden has been difficult. Today it warmed up to around 50 and the sun was out so I decided to dig up the Horseradish , [...]
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. [...]
When it’s 54 degrees outside and a slight drizzles is coming down, there ain’t much you can do outside in the garden, so let’s bring it inside for a while and look over a few of the seed catalogs that fill up the mail box over the year!
Johnny’s Select Seeds
Johnny’s has one of the best [...]
Hello again,
Well the South Texas heat has finally stopped the relentless assault on us and the rains have returned… we even had a few temps down in the 60’s , you can’t beat that! So it’s been a busy few weeks around here, we have been horse sitting for a friend of my wife’s, we [...]
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 [...]
Sorry I’ve been away, had a computer blowout and the heat isn’t doing anything for the garden.
We have had triple digit heat here in my are for at least two-weeks now, probably more but that’s my estimate! As for the computer , im back up and rolling strong with a new 64bit [...]
If you have ever thought about a market garden for a little side money or as an actual business venture then I would suggest this book to you.
This book doesn’t tell you how to grow vegetables, It highlights several people who have started a successful market garden, most on less than an acre.
Some of the [...]
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 [...]
I know hay really isn’t a vegetable, but it is an important crop none the less. Hay can have a complete crop cycle from planting or sprigging to harvest and storage, in our case we don’t plant, we just cut the coastal bahia grass that is already growing. Now the breakdown for those of you [...]