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

May Wk 2: 8 - 14

Temperature range:

• lows: 46 - 67
• highs: 77 - 88

Rainfall: several days worth of sprinkles

Planted:

• potatoes, Red Pontiac (saved)
• sweet potato slips, Porto Rico (saved)

Harvested:

• English peas
• strawberries
• yarrow
• comfrey leaves
• poke root
• broccoli

Egg counts:

• Sun. 5
• Mon. 5
• Tues. 4
• Wed. 4
• Thurs 5
• Fri. 4
• Sat. 5
• Week's Total: 32

Eating our own:

• canned pizza sauce
• canned strawberry jam
• canned sweet pickles
• canned dill pickles
• canned turkey/sausage gumbo
• fresh carrots
• fresh strawberries
• fresh carrots
• fresh broccoli
• fresh peas
• fresh eggs
• fresh goat milk plus
• yogurt
• yogurt cheese
• whipped cream
• cheese (1st attempt)
• frozen okra
  
• frozen chicken

Seeds saved:

• turnips, purple top
• lettuce from mesclun blend

Observations:

• magnolias blooming

April Wk. 4: 24 - 30

Temperature Range:

• lows: 50 - 67 F
• highs: 77 - 84 F

Rainfall: sprinkle

Planted:

• bergamot seedlings 
• bergamot seeds (Shumway)
• skullcap seedling 
• Roma tomato plants (local feed store)
• Vardaman sweet potato slips (Shumway)
• summer savory (Pinetree)
• dill seed (saved)
• field corn, Truckers Favorite (Shumway)

Transplanted:

• volunteer marigolds

Harvested:

• strawberries
• yarrow
• wild onions
• carrots

Egg Counts:

• Sun. 4
• Mon. 6
• Tues. 5
• Wed. 7
• Thurs. 6
• Fri. 4
• Sat. 4
• Week's Total: 36

Eating our own:

• fresh lettuce
• fresh strawberries
• fresh carrots
• fresh broccoli
• fresh eggs
• canned green beans
• canned blueberry jam
• canned apple butter
• canned pizza sauce
• canned sweet potatoes
• canned strawberry jam
• frozen green pepper
• goats milk

Accomplished:

• covered old strawberry beds with black plastic
• starting to mulch strawberry/asparagus beds
• tilled corn field
• trimmed branches overhanging corn field

Observations:

• Blooming: irises, honeysuckle, wild roses

April 22, 2010

Temperature:
~ low 49 F
~ high 77 F

Planted:
~ Echinacea purpurea
~ yarrow
~ anise hyssop
~ petunias

Harvested:
~ broccoli (fall planted) - 0.2 oz
~ romaine lettuce (fall planted) - 0.3 oz