Sunday, June 18, 2017

Farm Fresh:Garden updates are long overdue

The kids often find me in the garden when they wake-up. Here is everyone in the jammies picking peas.
 Corn is doing well now that we are having more sunshine and less rain.  I just planted the cucumbers in there with it.
 The cabbages and cauliflower grew pretty well.  I harvested some nice little heads 2 weeks ago.
 Then with the warmth and sunshine the bugs surged out to start attacking them.  I harvested the last of it and put the plants in the compost bin.
 The strawberries peaked several weeks ago now, around the middle to end of May the kids were bringing bowls of them in every day.


 We also discovered a fully grown (a little too tall) sweet cherry tree in the woods.  I am going to see if hubby can use his chainsaw skills to open a space around it so it can stay healthy.  It is amazing how much it produced even in competition with thorny brush and an enormous old oak tree.  We harvested about a quart off the lowest branches (those we could reach and pull down while standing on a stool).

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