sound bites from the garden
tatume squash hardly any make it into the house
Garden
Becoming Tenders
Something is happening out there on these two acres of ours. It looks simple enough, those patches of deep green beans, tomatoes and strawberries that are happily, slowly giving of their fruit day-by-day, Kazakh melons spreading their flowering tendrils, sweet potatoes and squash standing resolute on the 95 degree days, and cowpeas shooting towards the…
Unexpected Homestead Updates
We had a couple of extra roosters in the flock that needed to go. Rooster butchering is always an exciting and somber event around here and this time Stewart had the boys play a more hands-on role. I am happy that they know where that chicken soup came from, that they see the whole process….
A Garden Plan for 2014: Keep It Simple
“Remind me to keep it simple this year.” This from the man who has busted up large areas of clay soil by hand two years in a row. He who has planted in February-May and seen so much whither away in July and August and who now keeps it simple by necessity. But that warm…