tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65288188846101457102024-02-20T08:06:53.178-08:00J & N FarmNikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00722159612369264204noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528818884610145710.post-81029869682273027412012-10-02T11:10:00.001-07:002012-10-02T11:10:41.877-07:00Fall...Fall has arrived! The garden provided and we have a lot of canned produce. <br />
I am researching and working really hard to salvage the rest of what we have growing. It seems that we got a second growth period, because the first one was thwarted by the drought. We FINALLY got a little bit of rain, and magically EVERYTHING sprouted and began growing again. Now, I am being threatened with the first hard freeze and I am running out of time!<br />
Braden and I pulled out 5 of the 28 tomato plants and pulled off all the green tomatoes. My plan is to layer them in cardboard produce flats and tissue paper and store them in the basement. I am told that they will slowly ripen and that I could possibly have fresh, red tomatoes through Christmas, possibly longer. We will see...I will definitely make sure update with the results of that experiment. <br />
Here is what we accomplished yesterday...<br />
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Five plants down...23 to go! :) As you can see, everything has grown and made a big mess, so we have a lot of clean up to do. I am confident we will get it done, and if not...well, I will just turn the pigs out on it. I am sure they would LOVE to help out! The ducks are a little annoyed - they like to forage in there and we really disturbed their favorite area!</div>
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<br />Nikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00722159612369264204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528818884610145710.post-43177292076163437612012-05-29T10:24:00.000-07:002012-05-29T10:24:09.161-07:00Life on FarmWhen I was a kid, I never imagined that I would be a farm girl...or that I would actually like it - PREFER it, even! <br />
I grew up in a rural community - Bulldog City, America! - but the extent of my 'farming' was my dad's pepper and tomato plants, our cat and one dog. That is it. I cannot recall throwing a single bale of hay in my entire life, until I moved to Texas. The place was awful, and I am not going to go into the whole convoluted background on that, but I planted my first garden and had my first chickens and ducks there. I threw the hay and rode some horses....I fell in love. I fell out of love, and came back home with my tail between my legs and a sweet little baby in tow....and fell in love again. 12 years later, here we are. We have our own little piece of land, a few pretty great kids that are ok farmhands when they want to be, and a hodge-podge of livestock and other little creatures (anyone need a cat?!?!). But, for right now, we are pretty proud of this....<br />
Our garden for 2012.....<br />
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It is too big to get the whole thing in one frame, but you get the idea! <br />
Have a great day!Nikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00722159612369264204noreply@blogger.com0