Temperature ranges
- lows: 25 - 59 F
- highs: 52 - 61 F
Rainfall: 2.2"
Harvested:
- turnips
- kale
- rosemary
- sage
- lettuce
Egg counts:
- Sun. 0
- Mon. 0
- Tues. 1
- Wed. 0
- Thurs. 0
- Fri. 1
- Sat. 1
- Week's Total: 3
Observations & Accomplishments
Sunday
- day of rest
- looked back at garden journal entries for Dec. 2010. By this time last year we'd had freezing rain, snow, and temps in the teens! So glad we have milder weather this year considering the house renovations we have to do.
Tuesday
- light rain
- made chicken stew with our chicken, potatoes, turnips & herbs
Wednesday
- rain all day
- good day for finishing up the drywall
- chopped and packed dried horehound & dill weed
Thursday
- more rain
- butchered 4 more roosters & froze them
Saturday
- my green egg Ameraucana started laying again today
- made a persimmon pie for Christmas breakfast
Temperature Range:
- lows: 41 - 51 F
- highs: 57 - 74 F
Rainfall: 0.25"
Planted:
- 1st section of winter wheat
Harvested:
- horehound
- sage
- Hutterite soup beans
- calendula flowers
- kale
- beet greens
- broccoli thinnings
- lettuce
- collards
- cabbage leaves
Seeds saved:
Gathered:
- Sun. 0
- Mon. 1
- Tues. 2
- Wed. 0
- Thurs. 1
- Fri. 0
- Sat 1
- Week's total: 5
Accomplished & Observed:
Sunday
- day of rest
- added chopped wild onion tops to scrambled eggs
- found one of my layers (the Delaware) dead in the coop
Monday
- picked herbs & dried beans
- gathered & shelled pecans
Tuesday
- pulled half the okra plants & fed to goats
- pulled 1 bed of popcorn stalks
- cleaned chicken coop & spread litter over an empty bed for the winter
- pulled dead melon vines. Noted nematode nodes on roots
- made yogurt
Thursday
- planted 1st section of wheat
- tilled for a 2nd section
- cut broom corn sprouts to dry for goats
- gathered more pecans
Friday
Saturday
- a light rain
- autumn has definitely arrived
- frost warning for tonight
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
- peas
- 1 lone potato
- garlic
- yarrow
- sage
- oregano
- thyme
- Swiss chard
Seeds Collected:
- radish (variety unknown)
- shell peas, Wando
- calendula
Preserved:
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
Temperature:~ low 58 F~ high 84 F
Planted:~
Lavender~
Thyme~
Sage~
Oregano~
Rudbeckia~
Butterfly flower (weed)
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Hollyhocks
