Our little growing wheat experiment was fun. Last Fall, the guys planted wheat in our newly reshaped rocky field patch. By springtime, we had bright green wheat grass everywhere! It was a beautiful ground cover when everything else was still…
Tag: Gardening
Tennessee Amish Plow Boy Produce Auction
I loaded up the kids and we headed to the Plow Boy Amish Produce Auction last week. It always proves to be a fun outing! If you haven’t read what I’ve written about the Plow Boy Auction in the past,…
Weeding and Watering Garden and Soul
In between all the rain last week and this week, we worked in the garden every day planting more garden seeds and continuing to do battle against the weeds. It’s still not completely up and going, but it’s much better than the…
Giving Up On the Garden ?
We came home to a scary overgrown jungle in the garden after being gone for a week. I stood at the garden fence looking in at the wild jungle that had tripled in size in just a week. I grow great super…
How to Plant Strawberries
We are not experts on how to plant strawberries. But we tried and are hoping they turn out. The boys built some raised beds and we planted some of strawberries at the beginning of April. We ordered more strawberries and…
Low Garden Production
Gardening is hard work. Or at least it is for us! It’s frustrating when you work so hard planting your garden only to look out the window one morning to see the goat eating up all your hard work and the…
What’s Going on at the Farm?
We have lots going on around the farm. The flood put a damper on our progress and we have been having to deal with cleaning up piles and piles of river rock. We did get the rock off our main…
A Favorite Southern Vegetable, Okra
We grew up on okra. For a long time, I actually didn’t know that there were people in the world who didn’t eat okra, much less there were those to didn’t even know what okra was. Okra is a favorite southern…
Sweet Peas in the Garden
We’ve never had any success with growing peas in our garden, but this year, we actually have a row of peas growing in our garden and producing sweet peas! We planted the peas from seed…the .20 cent seed packages that I bought…
What’s in the garden?
For several weeks, we’ve been eating lettuce and Bok Choi or Pak Choi Chinese cabbage out of our garden. It has been very nice to not have to buy lettuce and cabbage at the grocery store and we are enjoying the incredible freshness it provides as well.…
Cheap Heirloom Seeds at $.20 cents a package!!!
I wanted to let you all know about the cheap $.20 cent seeds I found. Inexpensive garden seeds are available at the Dollar Store and Walmart. I found a large variety of garden seeds and herb seeds for $.20 cents a package. …
Planting Peas and Spreading Compost
We are trying our hand at growing peas this year. We planted Little Marvel peas from the cheap .20 cent seed packages I bought. We’ll see how they do! The Little Marvel pea is supposed to be a shorter vine. It is considered…
Lettuce Growing in the Garden on the First Day of Spring!
Our little 4 year old announced yesterday, “Our whole entire family forgot what warm weather feels like!” as we enjoyed spending some time outside in the early spring like weather. We do feel like we’ve been cooped up in the…
Tennessee Organic Growers Association Conference, Nashville, March 5-6
I just found out about this great conference going on in our backyard this weekend, March 5 -6 by TOGA (Tennessee Organic Growers Association). (Thanks Donna for letting me know!!!!) It sounds like a wonderful conference if you are in…