Saturday, July 09, 2016

The Garden 2016



The Garden
Plants have all doubled in size, watermelon plants are big, Squash plants have all at least doubled, few tomatoes are 2" in diameter now.  I believe it was the 95 degree heat we've  had the last few weeks, lawns are mostly brown now, we're losing some shrubs to the drought,  we haven't had any rain until today FINALLY! We're supposed to get a few more showers this evening.  Beans and peas are coming along, turns out I still have a row of Kale the deer didn't get.to, we're keeping the potato beetles at bay so far, I haven't seen any squash bugs or borers yet.



Our Pigs are getting big...


Turkey and Chickens have started laying eggs again.


Fixing the yard hill & Labor day

  Fixing the yard hill: Tuesday we're got 8 yards of 3/4" crushed stone, and 18 yards of loam delivered to fix a lot of sloped are...