Hey folks! It's been quite awhile
since I've had a farm post. To be honest, we've majorly slacked on
the gardens this year. A lot of it got overran by weeds. Such is
life. That's a whole other story, perhaps for a different blog post.
I did want to share some photos with your today just for fun,
though. :)
Sunflowers are one of my favorites. I
got the idea for this sunflower circle at our nature school group. I
just got the darn thing weeded finally, so the kids have only played
in it once. :/ They seemed to enjoy it, though, and that's all that
matters.
I also got some pics of the sunflowers
before the goldfinches eat them all up. We planted a few rows in
hopes to use them in our chicken/bird feed this winter, but they are
already dead/dying! I was wondering what was wrong with them, but
upon further inspection, I think the sneaky birds just got to them
quickly!
We gave the piggies some extra love
over the weekend. I'll admit that I'm bad about giving them much
extra attention when it's hot or cold out. So they got some grass
clippings (which we've been getting into the habit of doing whenever
we mow anyways because we really need to move them!) and back
scratchins. ;) I had some little helpers too. (Don't worry. The fence
was turned off.)
Our regular raspberries and grapes are
just about ready! I checked on the peach trees the other day when I
was weed-eating and was super pissed to find that something had taken
off with the 4 peaches we had on one tree! I don't know why, but I
have been craving peaches really bad lately. I got my fix from a
roadside produce stand on my way home from the doctor, so I'm
planning on canning those tonight. Yum!
How was your garden this year?
We don't have any fruit trees in our yard, but a few years ago we had apricots and mulberries. I know I was pretty upset when I discovered someone was picking our apricots off the tree before they had a chance to ripen.
ReplyDeleteOh man! I would have been even more mad if I knew it was a person doing it! We're pretty sure our culprit was a deer as we live out in the boonies. ha ha
DeleteI have already done our peaches for the season and just finished up rap jam and grape juice last weekend. Killed a chicken hawk that was try to get to the girls (chickens). I showed him.
ReplyDeleteOh, lucky you! I can't wait until we start getting more berries and fruits.
DeleteThat is crazy! I looked out the kitchen window one morning to find a hawk right outside the door of our coop terrorizing the poor chickens. I about had a heart attack!
Wow grapes and raspberries, awesome! Those sunflowers look beautiful. I haven't heard of a sunflower circle before, but what a fantastic idea.
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