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Lately…

June 9, 2015 Flora - Pemberley

It’s been busy around here.  Getting ready for the Farmers’ Market…
getting ready for the market
getting ready for the market with a plethora of tomatoes…

 

Getting the vegetable garden ready with seeding and transplanting…

square foot gardening
square foot gardening

 

 

 

 

 

 

strawberry popcorn
Planting corn in the ground to see it sprout a week later…. strawberry popcorn
growing!!!
growing!!!

My gorgeous white wheat has sprouted…

non-gmo white sonoma wheat
non-gmo white sonoma wheat

 

Collecting large rocks to create borders for vegetables…this rock wall is outlining many tomatoes

little rock wall for tomatoes
little rock wall for tomatoes

 

Using minion to build brick walls around fragile asparagus…

brick wall for asparagus
brick wall for asparagus

 

Taking walks to see the farm change seasons…

Magda
Magda
a field of daisies
a field of daisies
milkweed!
milkweed!

 

And finding strange things…such as this large asparagus on the side of our driveway…hubby thinks a deer pooped out a seed? Sadly, we didn’t notice it until it was already too late to pick…

wild asparagus?
wild asparagus?

 

So I take these few rain days to plant more vegetables into the ground and see if I can encourage my basil to grow more quickly to sell this Saturday…

More Weird Things

May 1, 2015 Fauna

I have two large rubbermaid containers to hold my bird seed. I leave one of them on my porch because I’m too lazy to walk it back to the barn and put it away.

Twice I have found the lid opened and chewed. Oh, I think to myself, I must have left it open. Huh.

Yesterday I found a chipmunk inside. Well, I had no idea how to get him out, and there was absolutely no way I would pick up the container and shake it (because what if he climbed out and attacked my face?) so I yelled a lot and tried to look menacing.  He inhaled 5 more sunflower seeds and then took his time leaving.  I shook the container to see how much he had eaten.

And there was something fuzzy inside.

Not moving.

So I calmly put it down on the ground, in the sun, walked back inside the house and waited for hubby to come home the next day and deal with it.