Planting, Planting and some more planting…
May 20, 2012 by Soulsby Farm - A Very Small Farm
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 break and find a dragonfly resting or watch the kids canoe.
Pepper Plant, Manure in the Wheel Barrow and a long garden shot of the pepper rows. Of course I like to plant a couple of cherry tomato plants on the corner. That way I can grab a snack as soon as I walk in the garden.
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Nice pictures can’t wait to see how everything grows for you this year!
That is a very big dragonfly. Today is the start of our planting, beginning with tomatoes and peppers.
Good luck! Hope you have nice weather for it
Just perfect! How happy to visit your farm, see what you’ve been up to. Thank you for sharing, thank you for the pictures!
-Tammy
Ours is all in too (except for some that we’ll plant a bit later on for some succession planting. I’m looking forward to everything coming up!
I love cherry plants as a snack too, they are a must. You are planting up a storm out here I hope you have a wonderful season! and that lake looked so cool and inviting! c
I’ve had lots planted and growing, even harvested, from our unheated greenhouse for about a month now…the tomato plants are starting to bloom!
I love the idea of having the cherry tomato plants on the corner of the garden, to snag a snack when you’re passing by! I’m going to do that, too! 🙂
I’ve been sweltering in the heat today (30’s up here in Canada), seeding the outside garden – popping corn, more carrots and peas, beans and leeks..and some edible flowers (nasturtiums, et al)…we could use some rain!
Tell me what the high and low temps are for you now. Because you are at the planting stage where I was in mid-February in Houston. I know we are very fortunate to be able to do a bumper crop of some veggies before everything burns up in July and August.
It’s unseasonably warm and we had a very mild winter. Our last frost date is May 15 but right now it’s in the upper 80’s during the day and low 60’s over night. But where’s the rain?
Black raspberries are a wonderful fruit. Often wild about here. Offer the thought as another possibility in your garden.
I love seeing how a farm “should” look 🙂 I am so jealous of all of the endemic fruits and nuts that you guys in the USA can take for granted. The only endemic thing that we have here is Tasmanian native pepperberry and if I had to rely on that for food I would be in hospital before the day was out! I would LOVE to plant directly into the soil but we are plagued with being an ex volcanic range here in Tasmania and so rocks abound right through our soil. I tried to make a 1metre by 1metre area to plant some garlic in…I was steadfastly going to remove all of the rocks until I started to uncover a rock that went down half a metre and showed every sign of being like an iceberg and decided to give up. I guess that it gives us an opportunity to be creative and to use some of that amazing information about permaculture and sustainable living (both past and present) that is available out there on the net but OHHHH how great it would be to be able to pay Uncle Keiths airfair out here and have him plant our our capsicums (peppers) and tomatoes!…sigh…
Wonderful garden! I can just picture in my mind what it will look like over time!
hope you read my recent post on community gardens. it’s important for anyone growing their own stuff. http://rlcarlson.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/gardens/
You’ve exhausted me. Take a break, will you?
I’m thinking about planting only cherry tomatoes next year. This year early in the season all my tomatoes were attacked by some sort of insect (I suspect fruit fly) and I’ve heard that cherry tomatoes don’t have so many problems. And, of course, they make grazing in the garden a lot easier 🙂
Awesome
Might could I borrow your plow and disk, As chance would have it there’s a patch I missed?
Of course!
It is a lot of work, but oh so fulfilling! Nothing like eating supper and you grew all of it or most of it yourself. The aches and pains of preparing, planting, weeding and harvesting seem to just fade away with each bite. Keep up the great work. Have a great week!
Being from Austin, it is crazy to think of just planting your summer veggies now. Mine went in the 2nd weekend in March. They wouldn’t stand a chance if I planted them now. I can’t wait to see more pictures when everything takes off.
So jealous, and inspired 🙂 It’s been a busy spring so I’m hoping to have such beauty around our tiny homestead soon, too!
Very nice. Just spent the past two days getting the big garden planted here.
Dude. I am way ahead of you 🙂
Things are looking great around the farm! Thanks for sharing the photos!!!
Great looking plants! I had miserable luck with our tomato seedlings, but hopefully the plants I bought from the farmers’ market will take off like they did last year. And I love the “try organic food” poster!
I’m told we’re in a 5a zone here in the northeast. Every farmer in our area shakes his finger and me and warns me not to put anything in the ground until Memorial Day. (Though many locals have already started their seeds indoors). It does seem like an impossibly short season for this San Diego gal, but I have seen the damage last frost can do here. This year has been such a tease. An unseasonably warm winter and a glorious, though dry, spring. I got the herb patch in several weeks ago and will help neighbors with their larger gardens over the coming weekend. Good luck with your crops!
We have our gardens in here in NH although many of the locals swear you can’t plant anything until Memorial Day. We’ve used slitted plastic row covers, clear plastic bottles over individual plants, hoop house is covered, and everything is doing well. It is good to get a head start for a change.
Your garden looks great – and the view of the pond is beautiful!!
looking good!
I’m so glad someone else photos their garden as it gows! We’re slightly behind you here in Austria, and the peas are just through the soil!
Lovely! Can’t wait to see the “after” pics in June or July!
Your garden looks fantastic!
Great pics, especially of the kids. So important not to miss those moments of appreciation. We just bought a used greenhouse off craigslist, can’t wait to get it up and running!
Your garden is fabulous! I was so happy the weather was spectacular this weekend up in my neck of the woods. I was able to get my final seedlings in. Now it’s just back and wait… and I can’t wait! 🙂
Love the peppers and of course the chicken having a snack! Your place looks awesome! I would love to have that amount of space to grow with! Perfect amount!
Same goes here! Lots of thing to plant!!!
*anna
Ha, I love the chick enjoying her melon! I spent the weekend building a grape arbor and completing the planting! A wonderful weekend indeed. Your’s looks great!
Jess
Beautiful. I dream of a world where everyone knows how to grow food. Hopefully your farm will be someone’s inspiration.
Your garden looks delicious. Our dragon flies have not hatched yet.
So cool! Good luck with everything! 🙂
flipping channels, I agree! In the end, we will all need to know how to grow our own food to survive!
Great pictures! I started my garden this week and next year i plan on starting from seed. I got to it too late this year.
Impressive garden, looking forward to seeing how all the seedlings grow up and produce food. 🙂
Awesome garden! My dog would agree with the cherry tomato idea – she always steals those, and the rest don’t make it to the house anyway. Nothing like sun-warmed cherry tomatoes bursting in your mouth! Your hen looks happy, too. 🙂
I love your organic food (or, “food”) sign! where did you find the image? would be a great framed print for the kitchen!
Hi Sarah, I don’t remember where I found it, I just thought it was awesome.
Great shot of the dragonfly! It’s much work now, but always the reward of harvest at the end of the summer. I have a MUCH smaller space to work with. Your farm looks like a great place to live and work. 🙂
chickens like pumpkins too! I found out the hard way!
I can’t believe how big your plants are already! Wow. Our are just sprouting. We have a short growing season here in northern MN. I love the sign about organic food- so true and funny and I guess sad as well
Great blog! We love the photos. Nothing wrong with a small farm…
Awesome garden. So cool that you have chickens. Someday we’ll get a nice set up like that. Fresh eggs are the best.
I love the meme at the end of your post. My grandma loves growing plants. She especially likes growing citrus from the seeds she gets in her assisted living facility’s dining room. One of her trees had little oranges on it & I asked if I could eat one. She said no because she had used miracle grow on the plant. Since she hadn’t planned on eating any of the fruit she was OK with using a cheaper & more readily available synthetic fertilizer. Organic food is real food. If it can be common sense to people who know very little about the science & debate associated with synthetic pesticides & fertilizers, why can’t it be common sense to everyone else? Also, I really like the picture of the chicken enjoying the watermelon. You farm’s looking great!
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Thank You!
Thanks for visiting my blog and i have enjoyed looking at your blog. I especially like the organic food picture in this post. It is quite funny actually. Keep up the good work.
we just picked our first kohlrabi. very excited to make something with it. your blog is inspirational to us in our efforts to grow most of what we eat in the summer
A great set of photos, wonderfully illustrative of what you guys do. but my favurite was definitely the chicken and the watermelon 🙂
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If only my rows looked that good. I am like beyond organic, Im more like throw seeds in the woods and hope for the best. Haha
Looks wonderful! I love that your chickens eat watermelon
This all looks very industrious. I remember staying with a family in Italy who kept chickens who also adored watermelon which was good since they ate it most nights after dinner!
Looking good! 🙂
Thanks for liking my recent post! I’ve enjoyed checking out some of yours – what a great blog. Your little farm looks like heaven.
Only in my wildest dreams! I always wanted to live on a farm, with chucks, with a gaggle of kids and with an apple pie cooking away in the Aga oven….I grew up watching The Good Life though with Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal though so it’s only ever amounted to back garden pest dramas!
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Lots and lots of Great photos! I know it can be lots of work having a nice big garden. A couple of years ago we worked for a friend who sells his veggies and flowers at the farmers market. It was fun, but also a lot of hard work! I remember how much my legs hurt from planting after not moving too much in the winter :+)