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Member since: Jan 10 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 36 | Organic gardener
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21 Mar 2011
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Cloudy 18°C / 65°FWe are newly returned from a marathon 11 day car trip across five states, just 4 miles shy of 3,000 miles. We went to visit Farmer Rick’s family in Tennessee and my friend the Crazy Sheep Lady in Kentucky over the spring break. I’ll be sharing some of the photos over the next few jour...
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15 Mar 2011Texas Mountain Laurel Blooming, Jewels of Opar Blooming, and Dutchman's Breeches Blooming
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16°C / 60°FI’m a little late in posting this backdated journal, but I figure if it was blooming when I left on spring break, and was blooming when I returned, by logic it must have been blooming on the 15th! Blooming are the Jewels of Opar, a succulent subshrub (in the Portulaca family) native to sout...
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08 Mar 2011
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Nominated! and Greenhouse improvements
Backyard garden , Greenhouse garden , and Sky Chair Ponds gardenSunny 24°C / 75°FWhile walking back from the Post Office today I fortuitously ran into the State Foresters at our local historic Escarpment Live Oak which is on both the National Historic Tree Registry and the Big Tree of Texas Registry. They were making their yearly visit to remeasure and check on the tree’...
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05 Mar 2011
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Sufferin' succotash--there are TWO ducks on nests!
Entrance garden , Greenhouse garden , Mint Licorice Hardening Off, Mint Korean Hardening Off, Mint Mountain...9°C / 49°FWe’ve been so preoccupied with treading lightly around Mrs. Porch Duck under the hedges, that we failed to notice the other Mrs. Duck back in the original nesting place in the oak mott in the front yard. These female Mallards really blend in with the oak leaves! We might not have noticed he...
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02 Mar 2011
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Honeybee welcome mat, sprouts and sowings
Greenhouse garden , Propagation Room garden , Milkweed Common Sprouting, Milkweed Green Sprouting, Milkweed...22°C / 71°FThe first dandelions of the backyard opened today and girls were all over them! Just look at their pollen sacs filled to the brim! If you are thinking about beekeeping in North America you will want to order your bees in the Fall to arrive at the same time your dandelions bloom in the Spring. The...
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27 Feb 2011
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Sunny 13°C / 55°FSaturday was indeed a day for celebration, as we saw nearly two years of work come to fruition. The weather was 85 degrees and perfect for working outside. Farmer Rick built a new hardware cloth door for the existing half of the coop, and we took the solid door from there and installed it at the ...
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25 Feb 2011Chicken Coop Two garden
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Sunny 22°C / 71°FIt’s just been a dreadful week, what can I say. We found Krzysztof’s top hen passed out under her roost at nightfall and she died in my arms by the time we got her across the creek and into the house for examination and emergency care. It’s been a long time since we’ve los...
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25 Feb 2011
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Goat poop express and the case of untimely potatoes!
24°C / 75°FI know there are a lot of great potato sources out there—but can anyone recommend a potato supplier that will ship in February? Our dear friend and gardener Jim delivered a load of goat manure yesterday from our other friends’ farm. The kidding season is about to begin so those of us ...
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24 Feb 2011Chicken Coop Two garden and Chicken Coop One garden
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Cloudy 18°C / 64°FIt’s been a weird week. Farmer Rick accompanied me across the creek yesterday afternoon to tend the chickens, being utterly unable to move about the property as I normally do and we discovered the damage. Well, as if the anxiety I’ve been feeling since the hunter incident wasn’t...
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23 Feb 2011
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Overcast 21°C / 69°FI have several flats of various mints and hyssops started last Spring that are taking up needed space in the greenhouse. I suppose if I’d left these plants outside over the Winter they would have died back so their leaves might be tender to the UV right now, and some are flowering. (The tru...
