Saturday, May 14, 2011

May Wk 2: 8 - 14

Temperature range:
  • lows: 46 - 67
  • highs: 77 - 88
Rainfall: several days worth of sprinkles

Planted:
  • potatoes, Red Pontiac (saved)
  • sweet potato slips, Porto Rico (saved)
Harvested:
  • English peas
  • strawberries
  • yarrow
  • comfrey leaves
  • poke root
  • broccoli
Egg counts:
  • Sun. 5
  • Mon. 5
  • Tues. 4
  • Wed. 4
  • Thurs 5
  • Fri. 4
  • Sat. 5
  • Week's Total: 32
Eating our own:
  • canned pizza sauce
  • canned strawberry jam
  • canned sweet pickles
  • canned dill pickles
  • canned turkey/sausage gumbo
  • fresh carrots
  • fresh strawberries
  • fresh carrots
  • fresh broccoli
  • fresh peas
  • fresh eggs
  • fresh goat milk plus
    • yogurt
    • yogurt cheese
    • whipped cream
    • cheese (1st attempt)
  • frozen okra
  • frozen chicken
Seeds saved:
  • turnips, purple top
  • lettuce from mesclun blend
Observations:
  • magnolias blooming

2 comments:

  1. You just amaze me with all you do! I had to look up Poke root, very interesting.

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  2. Sherri, thanks! I didn't think anybody paid much attention to my garden journal.

    I used the poke root in a slave for Jasmine's udder. I found information in an article at Back2theLand, Herbs, Milking, and Mastitis, 5 Secrest, about herbs for goats including mastitis. I dug some of that up, added fresh comfrey leaves and calendula flowers, chopped it in the blender with vegetable oil and added some melted beeswax. I've been massaging her udder with it several times a day. I'm not sure how well it's helping, but it's not getting worse and she loves it!

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