Category Archives: The Garden

Freezing Tomatoes and Harvesting Sunflowers

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It’s a busy time right now. We’ve had lots of stuff going on and we’ve been away from home a lot so I’m having to try to get caught up on a lot of stuff. Then on top of that, I have jury duty this week and have to prepare for the possibility of being gone for 5 days. The sunflowers are ready to harvest plus more tomatoes are also ready. No time to make sauce or roast sunflower seeds now so I’m freezing the tomatoes to make sauce out of another time and we’re picking the sunflowers so Miley can take the seeds off and have them ready to roast when we have the time.
So much to do, so little time… it’s just another day on the homestead.

Milk Room Complete, Mole Trouble and Making Cake

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 We got our milk room enclosure done and it’s so nice. Just when we get that problem fixed, we have another. Moles have started taking over the garden so now we’re trying to figure out a good way to get rid of them.
We have a bunch of zucchini so we’re shredding it up to freeze and making chocolate zucchini cake. If you’d like the recipe, you can find it here.  

New Rabbit, Canning Tomatoes, and Planting More Beans

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Meet our newest addition to the homestead… a Mini Rex rabbit. She’s so cute! We’re having a hard time coming up with a name that fits her. Do you have any suggestions?
Aside from getting the new rabbit, we got some tomatoes canned and the last of our fall green beans planted.  

Unhappy Goat and A Lost Flip Flop

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Got up early to get garden work done, and help Miley break the goats to lead for the fair, so we could get it all done before it turned hot. Later in the afternoon I watered the corn and had sprinkler problems which resulted in a couple of flooded rows of corn. I wasn’t thinking and as I went to get the hose off the sprinkler, I waded through deep mud and lost my flop flops. Well… that turned into a big mess. It was just one of those days… never a dull moment.

How We Use Raw Milk in the Garden

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In this video I show you how we use raw milk in the garden. From what I’ve read, raw milk can help with blossom end rot which is caused by low calcium. It’s also a good fertilizer and works to help repel insects. I’ve been using it for several years now and have had good results with it. To read more about it, click here.
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A Garden Emergency and Lots of Spuds!

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Most garden pests I can deal with but when it comes to worms… now that’s an emergency and a good reason to get out the pesticide I try to avoid using.
My little experiment I’m trying where I used 3 different methods to plant potatoes is turning out quite interesting. I thought the potatoes in the pots weren’t doing so good because I forgot to give them extra water. Surprisingly, more grew than I expected. The potatoes that we planted on top of the ground and covered with hay grew some really nice sized potatoes. We have yet to see how well the potatoes we planted in the ground did. We plan to dig them soon so we’ll find out.

Harvested Our Cabbage

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This year we’ve been having good luck growing some vegetables that we’ve normally had trouble growing in the past. The first one is broccoli…


I have to laugh because in past years our broccoli never looked that good, in fact it didn’t really resemble anything like this at all. When Brooke saw that, she said, “Wow, I can’t believe that came from the garden. It looks like what you’d find in the store. It’s awesome!”
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