FarmerJ | December 20, 2009
Squeeeeee! I could not believe my eyes when I opened the mailbox. Under all those ‘other’ catalogs ~ you know, Northern Tool, Harbor Freight, Oriental Trading ~ was a big, colorful, over-sized catalog. What could it be?! Yes! It was our 2010 Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog! It’s just gorgeous, and I foresee many, many [...]
FarmerJ | November 11, 2009
I’m not sure why or how it turned out this way, but in our gardening adventures this summer, there were certain things that ‘belonged’ to Darling Husbie ~ like the potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn ~ and things that ‘belonged’ to me. The beans and peas were mine, and I got to pick out whatever [...]
FarmerJ | October 31, 2009
Living up to the marvel at the way things grow in this chocolate angel food-like dirt, the Beauregard Sweet Potatoes were right there at the top of the list of ‘Things Grown Wild!’ Darling Husbie planted six plants ~ four Beauregard and two Vardaman. Neither one of us had ever seen a sweet potato plant [...]
FarmerJ | September 10, 2009
When we planned the garden plots this spring, we did so with the mindset that the entire process would be a fun learning experiment. So, as part of the experiment, we ordered a variety of heirloom seeds for things we’ve never seen or eaten before ~ one of those varieties being the Boston Marrow Squash. [...]
FarmerJ | August 25, 2009
Isn’t this a pretty flower? No, it’s not a Hibiscus ~ it’s better. It’s an Okra! How cool is that? Not only are we blessed with the food from our Okra plants, we are blessed with their beauty in the interim. It’s been fun and interesting to watch these plants grow over the course of [...]
FarmerJ | August 17, 2009
Boy, have I been remiss in keeping you current on our gardening adventures! My excuses? I have two of them, actually. One, because most nights I’ve been too exhausted to even formulate a coherent sentence. It’s been a choice between harvesting and preserving the many fruits of our labor, or blogging about it. There’s really [...]
FarmerJ | June 29, 2009
Our broccoli babies are growing quite nicely! The main broccoli heads are large enough to harvest, and the plants are becoming loaded with the smaller secondary broccoli ‘shoots.’ We harvested our first two heads Thursday morning ~ amounting to just over a pound ~ and oh, how delicious it was! Broccoli purchased from the store [...]
FarmerJ | June 12, 2009
…on a toad. Yes, a toad. Our Lord has a marvelous sense of humor! Most of you know by now of the farmstead gardening project we’ve taken on this summer. I’ve been trying diligently to get all the plants and seeds into the ground, but the rain has moved in and doesn’t seem to want [...]
FarmerJ | April 13, 2009
FarmerJ | March 20, 2009
