Showing posts with label daffodils. Show all posts
Showing posts with label daffodils. Show all posts

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Jan. 22 - 28, 2012

Temperature Range:
  • lows: 37 - 52 F
  • highs: 43 - 62 F
Rainfall: 1 inch

Seed Orders:
  • R. H. Shumway
    • Buckwheat, 5 lbs 
    • Collards 
      • Vates
      • Morris Heading 
    • Elderberry bushes, 2 
    • Sugar beets, Bucklunch 
    • Strawberries, 50 
  • Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
    • Beans, long, Red Seeded Asparagus 
    • Celery, Tendercrisp 
    • Cushaw, orange 
    • hairy vetch, 1/4 pound
    • Oats, hulless 
    • Sorghum, Mennonite 
    • Summer Savory 
    • Summer squash, Tatume 
  • Coe's Comfrey - 25 crown roots of Bocking 4 Russian Comfrey
Harvested:
  • turnips
  • cabbage collards
  • collards
  • kale
Egg Counts:
  • Sun - 7
  • Mon - 7
  • Tues - 6 plus a broken shell
  • Wed - 4
  • Thurs - 6
  • Fri - 6
  • Sat - 3
  • Week's Total: 40
Observed & Accomplished:
Sunday
  • day of rest
  • drizzled all day
  • tried some of my canned green tomatoes (fried)
Monday
  • more rain! :(
Tuesday
  • finished the last of the window sill ripened tomatoes picked last November.
  • daffodils blooming
  • made yogurt
  • finished de-seeding BOSS heads
Wednesday
  • sun! too wet to work in the garden though
  • hauled logs for terrace beds
  • egg production has really picked up
Thursday
  • drizzled all day
  • hauled more logs for terrace beds
  • mailed in my Shumway seed order
  • finished shelling cowpeas
Friday
  • 1st double yolked Buff egg!
  • sent off Baker Creek order
  • ordered 25 more comfrey plants
  • another round of broccoli looks ready to harvest
  • pickled a dozen hard boiled eggs in leftover pickle juice
Saturday
  • wheat is growing tall. cut a bunch back for the goats. something has been laying in it!
  • made & froze 3 quarts of turkey soup

Saturday, January 21, 2012

January 15 - 21, 2012

Temperature Range
  • lows: 29 - 44 F
  • highs: 44 - 52 F
Rainfall: 2.85"

Harvested:
  • broccoli leaves (for the goats)
  • mangels
  • turnips greens
  • kale
  • cabbage
  • collards
  • cabbage collards
  • beet greens
Egg Counts:
  • Sun. 5
  • Mon. 5
  • Tues. 4
  • Wed. 6
  • Thurs. 4
  • Fri. 6
  • Sat. 5
  • Week's Total: 35
Observed & Accomplished:
Sunday
  • day of rest
Tuesday
  • baked with wood cookstove for the first time!
  • raked acorns for the goats
  • rained all night
Wednesday
  • gave 2 doz eggs to my DDL
Thursday
  • started shelling black oil sunflower seeds
Friday
  • rain
  • daffodils blooming
Saturday
  • rain
  • noted a vinca blooming!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

March 16, 2010

Received & potted: my 10 free trees plus crepe myrtle from my National Arbor Day Foundation membership.
~ 2 Sargent Crabapples (Malus sargentii)
~ 2 Eastern Redbuds (CercisCanadensis)
~ 2 Washington Hawthornes (Crataegus phaenopyrum)
~ 2 Flowering Dogwoods (Cornus florida)
~ 2 Goldenraintrees (Koelreuteria paniculata)
~ 1 Crepe Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica)

Transplanted: more daffodils

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

March 10, 2010

Temperature
~ low 52F
~ high 54F

Rainfall - 0.2"

Transplanted - or rather relocated a lot of daffodils

Thursday, January 7, 2010

January 7, 2010

A few flakes of snow in the air.

Transplanted:
~ finished transplanting the bulbs and daylilies to in front of the zig zag fence

Monday, December 14, 2009

December 14, 2009

Transplanted daylilies and (hopefully) daffodil bulbs on the road side of the zig zag fence.