Temperature Range
- lows: 42 - 53 F
- highs: 67 - 78 F
Rainfall: none
Planted:
- radishes (saved seed)
- garlic (saved cloves)
- multiplier onions (Territorial Seed Co)
- lettuce (saved seed)
Harvested:
- beet thinnings
- Swiss chard
- 1st lemon
- tomatoes
- melons (to feed chickens & goats)
- radishes
Seeds Saved
- 4 o'clocks
- antique marigolds
- okra
- melon
Egg Counts
- Sun. 1
- Mon. 0
- Tues. 0 (found broken egg shell out in the field though)
- Wed. 1
- Thurs. 2
- Fri. 1
- Sat. 2
- Week's Total: 8
Accomplished:
Sunday
Monday
- planted radishes & garlic
- found 1st lemon on the ground
Tuesday
- waxed a cheese for food storage
Wednesday
- thinned beets
- gathered 4 o'clock seeds
- watered fall garden
- made mozzarella
Thursday
- multiplier onion sets arrived from Territorial Seed Co
- fed overripe watermelons to chickens
Friday
- gathered antique marigold seeds
- planted multiplier onions & more lettuce (Ruby lettuce had poor germination)
- cut broom corn sprouts to dry for goats
Saturday
- planted radishes & lettuce
- gathered seeds
- weeded fall garden
- waxed cheeses
Temperature Range:
- lows: 68 - 76
- highs: 89 - 100
Rainfall: sprinkle
Harvested:
- green beans
- okra
- watermelon
- cowpeas
- green nutmeg melon
- tomatoes
- Hutterite soup beans
- summer squash
- elderberries
- fingerling potatoes
- black oil sunflower seed heads
- figs
Preserved:
- dehydrated watermelon, 1 pint
- dehydrated figs, 3 pints
- froze 1 ice cube tray of whey
- chicken/okra gumbo soup, 11 quarts canned
- chicken/tomato soup base, 2 quarts canned
- tomato/veggie juice, 10 quarts canned
- okra, 2 quarts frozen
- mozzarella, 6 pizza's worth frozen
- scallop squash, froze 1 quart
Seeds Saved:
Egg Counts:
- Sun: 4
- Mon. 2
- Tues. 5
- Wed. 3
- Thurs. 2
- Fri. 4
- Sat. 3
- Week's total: 23
Eating Our Own:
- fresh eggs
- fresh tomatoes
- fresh figs
- fresh cabbage
- fresh carrots
- fresh okra
- fresh green beans
- fresh scallop squash
- fresh watermelon
- fresh nutmeg melon
- goats milk including:
- mozzarella
- yogurt
- sour milk (cake)
- frozen bell pepper
- lacto-fermented dill pickles
- lacto-fermented Swiss chard
- canned pickle relish
- canned blueberry jam
Accomplished:
- Sunday
- day of rest
- chicks hatched
- placed mail order chicks under Mama Hen
- Monday:
- picked
- watered main garden
- started more tomato juice
- made mozzarella from 2 gallons milk
- Tuesday:
- made & canned chicken okra gumbo
- canned surplus broth as soup base
- had to go buy more quart canning jars
- made yogurt
- froze more whey
- veggies through food mill for tomato juice
- watered raspberries, blueberries, elderberries
- Wednesday:
- dug potatoes (2nd bed of fingerlings)
- picked okra, toms, squash
- picked figs
- watered new pumpkins
- harvested BOSS heads
- canned tomato/veggie juice
- froze okra & ate some fresh
- chopped & froze 4.5 qts figs for jam making later
- Thursday:
- grated & froze Monday's mozzarella
- made more mozzarella from 1.5 gallons milk
- Friday:
- picked green beans, okra, soup beans, toms
- harvested dried dill heads for seed
- set melon seeds to soak for saving
- watered popcorn
- watered comfrey
- Saturday:
- helped finish goat fencing
- grated & froze scallop squash
Temperature range:
- lows: 69 -74 F
- highs: 93 - 98 F
rainfall: 0.2"
Harvested:
- watermelon
- green nutmeg melon
- tomatoes
- cucumbers
- cowpeas
- okra
- scallop summer squash
- green beans
- green peppers (2 small)
- oregano
- thyme
- rosemary
- sweet basil
- figs
Preserved:
- pizza sauce, 18 pints canned
- okra, 3 quarts frozen
- okra & tomatoes, 6 qts canned
- mozzarella, 7 pizzas worth
- green nutmeg melon, 1 pint dehydrated
- 1 ice cube tray of whey
- fresh goats milk
- yogurt
- ricotta
- mozzarella
- sour milk (pancakes)
- fresh tomatoes
- fresh eggs
- fresh herbs
- fresh watermelon (not quite ripe)
- fresh green nutmeg melons
- fresh green beans
- fresh summer squash
- fresh cucumber
- lacto-fermented Swiss chard
- lacto-fermented sour dill pickles
- canned pickle relish
- canned pizza sauce
- canned figs
- frozen bell peppers
Egg Counts:
- Sun. 2
- Mon. 3
- Tues. 6
- Wed. 5
- Thurs. 3
- Fri. 3
- Sat. 4
- Week's total: 26
Temperature Range:
- lows: 65 - 75
- highs: 84 - 96
Rainfall: sprinkle
Planted:
Harvested:
- oregano
- thyme
- rosemary
- okra
- strawberries
- beets, volunteers
- potatoes, volunteers, red pontiac
- potatoes, fingerling salad
- carrots, volunteers, Scarlet Nantes
- turnips, volunteers, purple top
- tomatoes, Romas
- cucumbers, Marketmore 76
- melon, green nutmeg
- blueberries
- cabbage
- cowpeas
- green beans (1st few)
Preserved:
- tomatoes & okra, 10 qts canned (fresh tomatoes, frozen okra)
- pizza sauce, 5 pints canned
- okra, 1 qt frozen
- mozzarella, frozen 5 pizzas worth
- whey, 1 ice cube trayful
- summer squash, shredded, frozen, 2 quarts
Seeds Saved:
- carrots, Scarlet Nantes
- lettuce, Romaine, & mixed
Eating Our Own:
- fresh eggs
- fresh blueberries
- fresh cabbage
- fresh carrots (volunteers)
- fresh tomatoes
- fresh cucumbers
- fresh okra
- fresh melon
- fresh strawberries
- fresh turnips (volunteers)
- fresh beets (volunteers)
- fresh goat milk
- yogurt
- mozzarella
- whey
- ricotta
- canned blueberry jam
- canned figs
- canned pizza sauce
- canned cucumber relish
- canned pickles
- frozen blueberries
- frozen cantaloupe
- frozen bell peppers
- dried cantaloupe (last of)
- dried watermelon
- lacto-fermented Swiss chard
- lacto-fermented cucumbers
Egg Counts:
- Sun. 3
- Mon. 2
- Tues. 5
- Wed. 4
- Thurs. 2
- Fri. 2
- Sat. 3
- Week's Total: 21
Accomplished:
- tilled fall garden
- mulched
- weeded
Temperature range:
- lows: 62 - 75 F
- highs: 65 - 97 F
Rainfall: 1.7"
Harvested:
- blueberries
- okra
- tomatoes
- cowpeas
- cucumbers
- thyme
- oregano
- rosemary
- strawberries
- sweet basil
- dill
- melons (green nutmeg)
- summer squash
Seeds saved:
- calendula
- cowpeas
- yellow cosmos
- carrots, Scarlet Nantes
Preserved:
- blueberries, 4 quarts frozen
- blueberry jam, 6 pints canned (from 2010 frozen berries)
- mozzarella cheese, 11 pizzas worth frozen
- okra, 1 quart frozen
- cukes, 1 gal crock of lacto-fermented sour dill pickles
Egg Counts:
- Sun. 7
- Mon. 3
- Tues. 4
- Wed. 2
- Thurs. 6
- Fri. 3
- Sat. 3
- Week's total: 28
Eating Our Own:
- fresh eggs
- fresh tomatoes
- fresh cucumbers
- fresh cabbage
- fresh blueberries (on cereal)
- fresh summer squash
- fresh melon
- fresh herbs
- goats milk:
- yogurt (on cereal)
- mozzarella cheese (pizza!)
- sour milk (pancakes)
- canned figs
- canned sweet potatoes
- canned pickle relish
- canned blueberry jam
- canned pizza sauce
- canned green tomato salsa
- frozen bell pepper
- frozen blueberries (smoothie)
- frozen cantaloupe (smoothie)
- stored carrots
- dried cantaloupe
- lacto-fermented Swiss Chard
Temperature Range:
- lows: 41 - 63 F
- highs: 51 - 82 F
Rainfall: 0.65"
Planted:
- spearmint seedlings (Shumway)
- green nutmeg melon (Pinetree)
- St. Johnwort seedlings (Pinetree)
- marigolds, antique (Chris)
- zinnias, antique lavender (Chris)
- horehound seedlings (Pinetree)
- horehound seed (Pinetree)
- skullcap seed (Baker Creek)
- pyrethrum seed (Shumway)
- chicory seed (Sustainable)
- calendula seed (saved)
- cukes, Marketmore (Baker Creek)
- Hungarian poppy (Baker Creek)
- Valerian (Pinetree)
- giant marigolds (Chris)
- broad leaf parsley (Pinetree)
- Ruby Chard (Baker Creek)
Transplanted:
Harvested:
- beets (last of, except a few for seed)
- lettuce
- carrots
- 1st 2 strawberries!
Gathered:
- dehydrated wild onions
- dried cleavers herb
Egg Counts:
- Sun. 4
- Mon. 5 (+2 hidden)
- Tues. 6
- Wed. 4
- Thurs. 2
- Fri. 2 (+ 1 hidden)
- Sat. 7
- Week's Total: 33
Eating our own:
- canned green beans
- canned pizza sauce
- canned Swiss chard
- canned sweet potatoes
- canned blueberry jam
- dehydrated onions
- fresh eggs
- fresh broccoli
- fresh lettuce
- fresh carrot
- frozen green peppers
- frozen corn
- frozen summer squash
- sauerkraut
Accomplished:
- made more terraced garden beds
- weeded echinacea/hollyhock bed
- weeded asparagus & strawberries
- starting to fill herb beds
Observations:
- English peas blooming (at last!)
- 1st echinacea bloom
- small peaches forming
- strawberries beginning to ripen
- everything needs mulch!!!
- ginger rhizome sprouting
- wheat heads forming
Temperature:~ low 54 F~ high 60 F
Rainfall - 0.2"
Planted:~ Rutgers
tomato plants
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melon plants
