Saturday, May 28, 2011

May Wk 4: 22 - 28

Temperature Range:
  • lows: 60 - 68
  • highs: 73 - 93
Rainfall: 0.8"

Planted:
  • pole beans, Kentucky Wonder (in the field corn)
  • pumpkins, Small Sugar (in the field corn)
  • sweet peppers (2nd try), Chinese Giant
  • yellow cosmos
Transplanted:
  • dill volunteers, to sweet potato beds
Harvested:
  • peas
  • 1 lone potato
  • garlic
  • yarrow
  • sage
  • oregano
  • thyme
  • Swiss chard
Seeds Collected:
  • radish (variety unknown)
  • shell peas, Wando
  • calendula
Preserved:
  • 6 pints strawberry jam
Eating Our Own:
  • canned green beans
  • canned green tomato salsa
  • canned sweet potatoes
  • canned pizza sauce
  • canned Swiss chard
  • goats milk including:
    • cheese
    • yogurt
    • yogurt cheese
    • whey (in muffins)
  • fresh eggs
  • fresh peas
  • fresh strawberry jam
  • fresh Swiss chard
  • stored potatoes
  • stored carrots
  • stored pecans
  • frozen blueberries
  • frozen cantaloupe
  • frozen strawberries
  • frozen bell peppers
  • frozen eggs
  • dried herbs
Egg Counts:
  • Sun. 4
  • Mon. 5
  • Tues. 5
  • Wed. 5
  • Thurs. 0
  • Fri. 6
  • Sat. 5
  • Week's Total: 30
Accomplished:
  • watered herb garden & corn field
  • watered fall garden & Brandywines
  • cardboard mulched side of garden by corn field fence
  • tried bunches of sage as fly repellant
  • tried bunches of thyme too, but the goats ate them
  • scythed part of hay field
  • transplanted volunteer dill plants to sweet potato beds
Observations:
  • daylilies, daisies, & hydrangia blooming

1 comment:

  1. I was reading through your list on this post and saw stored potaotes, then I went to your sidebar and found how you grew them in buckets..last year we grew in tires and were so sad to find the rodents had chewed them so badly that we didn't have much of a harvest. Then in the same post you had fig trees highlighted and I really got excited as we lost our first one last season and so I put that post on my favorites to go look at when I have time to study it. Thank you so much, you are a true wealth of information.

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