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First day of Spring

By on March 20, 2013 in farm life, Wheat Berries Homestead

This morning Matthew and I sat in a rocking chair in the front porch to enjoy the crisp cool morning breeze.  Birds were flying from tree to tree, cardinals, bluejays and robins, each in pairs playing a catch me if you can game.  I looked out into the oaks and they seemed twice as full as yesterday and so much greener.  Not just any green but spring green!!  All at once, it hit me.  Could today be the first day of spring???? 

I ran inside to google it (what did we do before the internet, seriously!) and sure enough, today is the first day of spring.  The trees and plants all knew it, without googling it!  The rest of this week will be a flurry to get all the rest of the spring garden planted before Holy Week begins.

I will be back tomorrow with my Stash Bash, see you then.

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Weekly farm update

By on March 17, 2012 in farm life, farm update

I am happy with my progress in the garden this week.  Almost all the beds are planted now with the exception of the two big ones and I hope to get those done on Monday.  I am dreaming up some wire towers to grow potatoes this year without having to take up lots of room so I need to keep working on that.

do you remember last weeks shot of these just planted pea shoots, they finally popped up out of the ground so I planted two more pots full.  These should be a salad in another week and a half.
first tomato of the season and on the smallest bush
Veronica’s squash finally popped through the ground
we will hopefully have a good blueberry harvest this year, every bush is loaded down with flowers and now berries.  The bees were buzzing everywhere.  There are so many more bees this year than last and usually in the blueberry orchard I only get the big fat bumble bees but yesterday I saw lots of different kinds everywhere.  To a farming girl, this is good news.
What I planted this week:  
mache corn salad
mild mesclun mix
spicy mesclun mix
russian kale
joi choi greens
red purslane
french breakfast radishes
pink beauty radishes
green onions
cilantro
lettuce leaf basil
yellow squash
The last of the grape vines, which I was sure was dead has come back to life.  I planted about 7 grapevines last year and put the pruning off till this year.  For some reason this really scares me, but they have to be trained to the trellis so I am busy reading up on it and watching youtubes.
I found lots of little mulberries growing on our tree down by the pond (the one that never gets watered and somehow still lives)
The feathered girls close to bed time, they come back to the coop right about an hour before sunset, from wherever their adventures took them during the day.  The boss (rooster) starts sounding the call and everyone nicely goes inside the coop.  I love the sound of roosters and this one is very good with taking care of his girls but I don’t trust him so I always have my walking stick next to me.  I don’t know why, he just has that kind of face.
Did I mention that we are once again totally drowning in eggs.  I have a handful of people who want to buy eggs from us weekly but I have just been too busy to have anyone come by here…I think I probably need to let go of my perfectionism and have some customers come by even though my garden isn’t perfect yet.
I will be making some good old fashioned egg custard though to use some up but seriously I have 90 eggs right now and we have been putting them in everything we can think of.
I am joining Ginny in her Saturday Garden Journal, check out how her garden grows.



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