Saturday, December 17, 2011

Dec. 11 - 17, 2011

Temperature Range
  • lows: 28 - 55 F
  • highs: 45 - 66 F
Rainfall: 0.5"

Harvested:
  • turnips
  • kale
  • beets
  • radishes
  • Meyers lemons
Preserved:
  • 1 half-gallon raw goat milk
  • 1 pint jar dehydrated lemon rind
Egg Counts
  • Sun. 1
  • Mon. 0
  • Tues 1
  • Wed. 0
  • Thurs. 1
  • Fri. 1
  • Sat. 0
  • Week's Total: 4
Observations & Accomplishments
Sunday
  • day of rest
  • substituted sweet potatoes in my scalloped potato & ham recipe for dinner. Yummy!
Monday
  • cold and drizzly
  • made yogurt
  • finished shelling & winnowing the popcorn. Yield: 17.75#
  • 3 pounds popcorn for Christmas gifts
  • 1/2 pound saved for next year's seed
Tuesday
  • raked leaves
  • mulched turnips & lettuce
  • fed turnip greens to goats
Wednesday
  • used turnip for a 1 gallon crock of sauerruben. Tried adding whey to the salt solution in this batch.
  • lost a quart of canned green tomatoes  :( Seal broke.
Thursday
  • raked more leaves & mulched garlic bed
  • made a lemon pie with homestead lemons, eggs, & milk!
  • sliced & dehydrated leftover lemon rind
  • kale & radish salad for dinner
  • roasted sweet potatoes, turnips, & beets for dinner too
Friday
  • started culling roosters
Saturday
  • raked more leaves & mulched
  • cleared away black plastic in old strawberry bed. It was supposed to smother everything underneath but tore in a few places & didn't do a good job. Wire grass is a plague over there. 
  • thinned broccoli


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