Right before we left for India and for quite some time while we were away the weather was bitter cold. Aside from the winter crop in the hoop house (all doing well), the weak spot on our property where cold matters is our bees. I decided early on in the game not to medicate, feed …
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The Skinny (1) on Honey: Antioxidants
(Oh no, it’s another series!) Amie and Mama and their first honey harvest ~ I’m so sore from my workout yesterday. I was shredding leaves for two hours and also moved the contents of one (full) outside Earth machine to the Earth Machine inside the hoop house. Going by last year’s experience, this compost won’t …
Daily Bread No. 11
This bread is so good. We had it with homemade pesto (last harvest of homegrown basil) and the last Brandywine tomatoes. Tomorrow if I am feeling better I’ll pull all the tomatoes, peppers and eggplants from the hoop house, chop them up, and mix them with the orphan punkins, of which we received three more …
Daily Bread No. 10 and Last Harvests
So I’m not going to be able to bake a bread every day, but it’s cool. Taking advantage of the hot oven, I also baked a punkin pie, using this wonderful recipe (but with canned pumpkin puree). I can’t show you pictures because it’s mostly gone already. I may become a (modest) baker after all. …
The Garlic is In
It is recommended to plant garlic a week after the first frost, and we finally had our frost two nights ago, and i couldn’t wait any longer. That first frost was almost a month past our average first frost date (10/5). I had about 30 cloves, saved from last year, and 10 volunteers from bulbs …
Daily Bread No. 8, and First Pumpkin Foundling
Today, the day after Halloween, we found our first punkin orphan, dropped off at our mailbox. Amie ran to welcome it. We reminded people of the composting program when we were out trick-or-treating, and many were enthusiastic. And I met one elderly gentleman who was the first to live on this street, and he and …
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Plans for the Weekend
The weather turned “normal” again: hovering above freezing at night, in the 50s during the day. This weekend is going to be sunny, too. Last chance to really make a difference in the garden! get more horse manure finish other side of hotbox transplant seedlings into finished part of hotbox plant garlic and Egyptian onion …
Fertilizing a Garden Bed, Horse Play, and Daily Bread No.3
This bed in the back of the garden (to the West, underneath the trees)Â is a new one. I added it this Spring. I wasn’t happy with what grew in it this season. The reason could be the lack of sunlight, or poor soil. About the sunlight there is not much I can do at …
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Wintering the Hive: Last Inspection and Homemade Mouse Guard
I did a last inspection today – 69 F, no wind, no rain, just lovely. The bees were foraging, so it was safe to open up the hive without risk of chilling the bees. They were quite defensive, and did not take kindly to my stapling my home made mouse guard to their front entrance. …
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Winter Hot Box with Horse Manure
(Wow, three entries in one day!) I have lights specially fitted to the bed up front, so it can easily be converted to a cold frame. I’ve successfully grown lettuce in it in April. Now I was thinking of growing something there from November to March, the coldest months. The hotbed, finally! ~ A, the …