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17
May
2009

Our homestead pics: 2005 and 2009

May 17th, 2009 at 07:30 pm by Shari Thomas in Around the Farm, garden

As promised here is a short photo blog of pictures from when Bev and Cindy first got here, compared with pictures I took today.

Front yard Sept 2005

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Raised gardens with garlic, spinach, peas and lettuce.

Under the trees, rhubarb, strawberries and currents.

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That gives you a quick idea of the changes we’ve made so far.

Also today, we put another new cover on the greenhouse. That makes three covers in three years. This one doesn’t look good. The fabric has several flaws which we’ve documented.

Tomorrow, Cindy and I will begin digging out the south side of the front walk, hoping to have that completed in two days.

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Tags: birds, birds and blooms, currents, front yard, garden, garlic, greenhouse, homestead, lettuce, spinach, strawberries, trees

Shari Thomas

Planted peas, spinach and chives today

April 30th, 2009 at 07:44 pm by Shari Thomas in Weather, garden

Under the watchful eyes of our long-eared owl family, I planted the very first of our crops today.

Earlier we built another set of garden boxes in our front lawn. That doubles the boxes to four 4×6 and two 2×5. Eventually, we’ll add four more 4×6 boxes and that will complete one half of our front yard.

I know, it’s hard to visualize, so I’ll get some pictures tomorrow. Gotta do it then, or wait until Monday, as there’s a storm headed our way. I expect that by tomorrow noon, we’ll be back into high wind advisories, and then thunderstorms and rain on Saturday into Sunday.

We have to be very careful about planting things here as our last frost doesn’t come until the middle of June… yep, we could have frost the night before we have summer!

We’ve got the garden plots prepped, and the first of the drip irrigation systems is laid out waiting to be drilled. I’ve been pretty insistent about waiting until our seeds arrive, and we’ve bought the necessary plants to actually drill the drip holes into the PVC.

Hopefully, we’ll have a quiet day next week so we can put the new cover on the greenhouse. This is our third cover in as many years. Sure glad we bought a greenhouse with a long guarantee on the covers.

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