What did you think I was gonna say??
We are in a light drought ... Which seems funny to say because we have to wait for the fields to dry out so we can plant more of our crops ...
My youngest son .... now 18 yrs old going on 19 in a few weeks, planted some 6000 onion plants --- 3000 yellow, 3000 reds ... but I wrote about that before - even had photos
Last week I was in bed not felling well, oh I was in misery, so hubby got the two youngest kids (boy & girl) and planted the 100 pounds of potatoes without me!
Sounds like he planted them way too close together but we will have to wait and see. I told him 18inches apart figuring he would plant them 12 inches between which is what they are supposed to. Be at ... But it sounds like he planted them at 6inches instead .... Oh well.
50 pounds of All Blue, 50 pounds of Pontiacs.
I'm hoping they will store very well over winter, but I'm also planning on canning up a LOT of them for quick use.
Hubby wants to plant sweet corn and see if we can get it to grow in the long field where we haven't planted it in nearly 3 years .... Of course last year NOTHING grew since it was soooooo cold & wet until July, by then it was too late to get anything in, even the apples suffered - there wasn't too much rain in July or August but it didn't get really hot until September either.
So we have 2 crops in the ground right now ... Hopefully tomorrow hubby can get the corn in .... aka The Cash Crop ... if there's a lot of corn we will sell some, usually enough to help the kids pay for field trips, course fees, maybe even school lunch - of course the money we use for seed/plants/firltilizer comes out first. We haven't had anything for several years now :(
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My chickens ...
They have turned suicidal, I swear!
They eat, they poop, but they aren't laying again!
We've given them food, water, and shell for calcium ... they had started laying then just ... Stopped ...
Grrrrrr
I know they want to get out into the grass and scratch around, but we have to set up the "paddock" again - check for holes and figure a better way to attach it to the "corral" so they can't get out ...
We don't want the dog to have too much fun .... Although she has found the cockleburs and .... Well she's as bad as Velcro! Oh man - poodles are not fun to get burrs out of either! She hates it, I hate it, grrrrr
She turns 1 yrs old next week ... Crazy pup!
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