Inspired by Sara at
Farmama for a walk around the farm to see what is going on in our little corner of the world. Last week brought intense heat and no rain in sight. This week is wonderful. Rain yesterday, lots of it. Thunder and lightening, oh the sounds were actually soothing. High in the 80's and 60's for the lows. Perfect outdoor weather!! Just perfect!
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| Volunteer pumpkin (brought over from composted straw/hay and regular compost), in the rose bushes! |
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| My herbs are just going nuts this year and I love it. This oregano flowered in the blink of an eye!! I didn't even plant dill, the seed spread and came back in lots of places. I just pulled the plants I didn't want and left a few to grow. |
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| A few straggly strawberries but the flavor is still very berry delicious! |
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| More berries! Getting darker by the day (blackberries). |
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| Raspberries that I promptly ate! Oh my! The BEST flavor. EVER!! |
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| These are wonderberries that I got from rareseeds.com. A cousin of the huckleberry. Not much flavor; small and seedy. I will make a pie or jam out of them. |
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| Oh my sweet Irish Poet flowers mixed in with a wonderberry plant. I love your tassley hair! |
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| Poles my dad put in which are taller than the stakes. The beans objected to shorter stakes of course! Dad to the rescue! |
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| Baby Bear Pumpkin |
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| Rowdy Rooster, Black no-name hen, Paddy and Erin find some shade. These are 4 of our 35 chickens. We incubated and hatched them and since they were mixed in with our 2 ducks in the chicken tractor (where all our babies start out), we decided to open the door and let them free range around the property... Sort of an experiment. I love it! They go everywhere! Front, back, gardens (oh yeah! eat those bugs). The ducks do too. In fact, one of our older females, who can fit through the 4x4 square fence panels, she hangs with them during the day and goes back in the pasture at night. We found the ducks in the pool once and only once! Keep the gate closed! |
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| Another volunteer around a butterfly bush. Everywhere we mulched with this compost, we got some beautiful volunteers. We have pumpkin, squash and gourds. No cukes that I can tell. |
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| A row of wildflowers planted from seeds saved off of the beautiful row along the pasture fence. This was my daughter's brilliant idea of how to cover the damaged lattice behind it, for this year. We do plan to replace it.... I know the wildflowers will still be there though even when we do. |
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| Zucchini, Dragon's Egg cukes and jalepenos are starting to come in. Come on tomatillas! I can't wait to make salsa!!!Of course, the cilantro bolted (slow bolt variety) and is going to seed! I can never time right! |
Thanks for the stroll today! I have enjoyed it!
Til next time~ Tracey
5 comments:
Your place is lovely Tracey. We had rain last night-hooray. Tomorrow the heat returns, but for now I am just thankful!
I have a surprise dill too. I didn't have any use for it, but have since been making refrigerator zucchini pickles so I'm glad I left it.
Everything looks so lovely! glad to have found your blog!
It is a great time when it all starts coming together. It looks so hot and high summer where you are - we are just beginning ours - it is such a short season. I have never grown cilantro(we say coriander) without it bolting. xx
I love how you dubbed them *volunteer* plants. I remember the BEST tomatoes we ever had were from the volunteer tomatoe that was self-planted (via the compost)in our flower garden. But YOU have so *many* wonderful volunteers!
looks like things are coming in really well for you! how exciting! everything looks great!
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