Posted in Chickens, Farm, Garden, Garden Pictures, Gardening, Gardening, Homesteading, Organic Gardening, Organic Vegetable Gardening, Permaculture, Pumpkin Patch, Self Sufficient Living, Sustainable Farming, Sustainable Living, Vegetable & Herb Gardening, tagged farm, farming, garden, gardening, oragnic gardening, vegetable garden pictures on June 10, 2012| 60 Comments »
Cucumbers are coming in real nice. We’ll be pickling soon.
Zucchini’s blossoming and the Brandy-wine Tomatoes are loving this heat.
Peas need trellised, corn is coming up and so are soybeans.
Pumpkins popped up a day ago and the bush beans are getting big.
Chickens frolicking and a bunny. I gotta do something about the bunnies. They’re eating up all my beans.
Broccoli. Nothing better than fresh broccoli marinated with soy sauce and garlic and cooked on the grill.
Posted in farm pictures, Organic Gardening, Pumpkin Patch, tagged autumn pictures of the farm, farm halloween, halloween pictures, pictures of fall on the farm on October 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Fall pictures on the farm. No a lot of writing needed. We got our first frost the other day and I snapped some pictures early morning. I also found a big ‘ol groundhog out back. He turned to face me and charged. I jumped onto the tractor to protect myself but he ended up not really charging me just running into the barn. Ohh and check out the wooley bear I found. Have a great Halloween!
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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Summer’s coming to a close. The daylight is fleeting and the cool autumn air is whistling through the trees and soon their leaves will put on a spectacular color show and I’ll have to rake them into big piles and haul them to the curb. The garden plants are hanging on and giving all their energy to the fruits clinging onto their stems.
We picked some pumpkins yesterday and celery, peppers, tomatoes, cabbage and one crazy zucchini. The root vegetables can still sit in the ground for another couple of months. On a cool fall Saturday afternoon, I’ll head out back and dig up a wheelbarrow filled with onions and carrots and celery. So, long as the Buckeyes are playing an evening game and as long as I have a hot cup of apple cider to sip on.
Jake will help. By help I mean pee on anything that’s still vertical. As the world’s only farm Chihuahua, he has to mark his territory right? Mindy is always a big help harvesting too. She doesn’t like the planting but is a patient harvester. Carefully looking underneath each vine and every leaf. She can have some hot apple cider too.
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 turning a deep purple and the pumpkins are turning a brilliant orange. The sky is littered with gray clouds and a soft rain is falling. Time to bust out the crock-pot and make some warm meals. Chili is on the way tonight, made with fresh tomatoes, green peppers and onions from the farm. Best of all, football starts tomorrow and I can’t wait.
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 »
Posted in Farming, growing pumpkins, growing tomatoes, Organic Vegetable Gardening, Pumpkin Patch, tagged corn field, farm, gardening, growing pumpkins, tomato plants on August 7, 2011| 6 Comments »
The garden is bursting with life and the tomatoes are finally staring to ripen. Which means, it’s time to can. My Dad found me a pressure canner at a garage sale yesterday for $8. What a deal. New they run close to $90. I’ve been canning the “old fashioned” way by putting cans in a huge pot of boiling water that takes forever but with the new canner, it takes just minutes and only an inch of water and it doesn’t turn the kitchen into a sauna in August. Thanks Dad!
Stay tuned, I’ll post a “How To Can” article with step-by-step instructions later this week. If you have any questions, send them to me now.
Posted in Farm, growing pumpkins, growing your own vegetables, Organic Gardening, Organic Vegetable Gardening, Pumpkin Patch, tagged deer, deer in garden, deer jumping fence, video deer on August 1, 2011| 2 Comments »
This pic is from Saturday Morning
Spent the weekend fixing the fence and tonight (Sunday at 8:15pm) I caught this doe mowing the pumpkins. Look at this video of her leap over the 5′ fence without even trying. She disappears in the first 1 second of the video. Might have to rewind it a couple times to see it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWkYvfMrRbw
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 corn. Did you know that a dragonfly’s life span is just 24 hours? I also snapped a couple shots of the rabbit I must take down in order to save my crop. god, I hate rabbits and deer.
Green Pepper, Thai Hot Pepper, Zucchini and tomatoes
I found a ton of pumpkins popping up. I was worried that they wouldn’t be pollinated but after my last post I noticed lots of bees, dragonflies, ants and other insects doing the pollination job. Thanks for the help Mother Nature.
I’m trying a new format with this post. Wordepress has made it a pain in the ass to post pics and text and make it look decent. So, please take a moment to click on the thumbnail pic to see it.
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 with the Male Flower which grows above the vines and opens about a week or so before the female flower. You can tell the difference between the Male and Female flower quite easily. Male is on the left below, Female is on the right.
The Male is up above the plant and the female grows on the vine underneath the leaves. The giant leaves shade the fruit. Bees, birds and other insects take the pollen from the Male flower from the center stamen and place it on the female flower in the center of the multi segmented stigma. There was a lot of insects doing the pollinating this morning.
Due to the decrease of honey bees in certain areas, you can pollinate pumpkins yourself using a Q-Tip. Simply stick the Q-Tip into the center of the Male flower, and then place the Q-Tip (covered in yellow pollen) into the center of the Female flower.
More Pumpkin Patch Pics….
Pretty soon, you’ll have a pumpkin growing.
I found this guy hiding underneath the leaves. The first pumpkin of the season!
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