Got rain on the brain? It hasn’t been very rainy yet, but it sure will be again soon. Have you thought about where all that rain water is going to go? Rain gardens will capture the rain water and get into the ground where it belongs! Every time it rains, we generate a ton of [...]
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How to Build a Rain Garden
Posted in Gardening, Gardening Tips, Homesteading, Permaculture, Self Sufficient Living, Sustainable Farming, Sustainable Living, tagged advantages of making a rain garden, garden, Home, how to build a rain garden, Native plant, Plant, Rain, Rain garden, Rainwater tank, Stormwater, Water on May 26, 2012 | 41 Comments »
Planting, Planting and some more planting…
Posted in Chickens, Farm, Farm Pictures, Garden, Gardening, Gardening, growing tomatoes, Homesteading, Organic Gardening, Organic Peppers, Organic Tomatoes, Organic Vegetable Gardening, Permaculture, Self Sufficient Living, Sustainable Farming, Sustainable Living, Vegetable & Herb Gardening, tagged cabbage, Fruit and Vegetable, garden, garden planting, gardening, organic gardening, peppers and tomatoes, Plant, Sowing, Tomato, vegetable planting, Zucchini on May 20, 2012 | 57 Comments »
Bush beans planted by Uncle Keith and rows of peppers and tomatoes. Cabbage, Black Berry Bush and Chickens love Watermelon. Cucumbers and Zucchini There’s always time to take a [...]
Just some fall pictures….
Posted in Farm, Farming, Organic Gardening, farm pictures, farm in autumn, tagged gardening, dusk garden pics, farm sunset, farm, farm in autumn, farm in fall, garden, thunder storm, clouds on September 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Storm clouds rolled in yesterday and it looked spectacular. The sky grew dark but the sun was shining on the other side. Made for some great pictures. Click on any image to see a larger version, so make a great screen saver. I do love fall. I will be speaking to the Hudson Garden Club [...]
Summer’s coming to an end but life in the garden continues…..
Posted in Farm, Farming, growing tomatoes, growing your own vegetables, Organic Gardening, Organic Vegetable Gardening, Pumpkin Patch, tagged autumn, corn field, dog, dusk garden pics, farm, farm in fall, garden, gardening, growing pumpkins, pumpkin patch on September 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
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Fall’s a coming….
Posted in Farm, Farming, growing your own vegetables, Pumpkin Patch, tagged corn plants, farm, farm in autumn, garden, gardening, growing pumpkins, pumpkin patch, sunset sky, tomato plants on September 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The temperature dropped 30 degrees in one day and it feels like autumn is on under way. The corn is [...]
Sunday Pictures… Lots and lots of pictures
Posted in Farm, growing tomatoes, growing your own vegetables, Organic Gardening, Organic Vegetable Gardening, Pumpkin Patch, tagged corn field, farm, garden, gardening, gardening tips, pickle recpie, tomato plants on August 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Harvest is Good
Posted in Farm, Farming, growing tomatoes, Organic Gardening, Organic Tomatoes, tagged canning, garden, gardening, gardening tips, tomato plants, tomato sauce on August 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Tomato sauce making will commence this weekend. I’ll post pics and directions on how we do it. I like to just cook down the fruit and not add anything to it. No basil, no garlic nuthin’. This way it’s a blank chalkboard [...]
I hate Deer, Rabbits and Humidity….. and lot’s of new veggie pics!
Posted in Farm, Farming, growing pumpkins, growing tomatoes, growing your own vegetables, Organic Gardening, Organic Peppers, Organic Tomatoes, Organic Vegetable Gardening, Pumpkin Patch, tagged corn, corn field, corn plants, deer, farm, garden, gardening, Grow your own pumpkins, growing pumpkins, How to Grow Pumpkins, pumpkin patch, step by step instructions to pumpkin growing, tomato plants, watering tomatoes on July 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Dave got the fence patched up where the deer were braking in to feast on the watermelons, pumpkins and corn. An ear popped up today as well and I grabbed a picture of a dragonfly on the [...]
Pumpkin Pollination Time!
Posted in growing pumpkins, growing your own vegetables, Organic Vegetable Gardening, Pumpkin Patch, tagged farm, garden, gardening, pumpkin patch, pumpkin planting, step by step instructions to pumpkin growing, step by step instructions to pumpkin planting on July 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Here’s a cool side-by-side picture of when I planted pumpkins on June 16th and a picture I took this morning July 24th. It’s pretty amazing what Mother Nature can do in just 38 Days. Pumpkin Pollination is the key to growing pumpkins. It all starts [...]
