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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Don't Blink!



Things are changing quickly around here on Tatum's Farm!  Apparently the veggies were pleased to be fed with the water soluble Miracle Gro plant food I gave them over the weekend.

Sweet potatoes June 25

Sweet potatoes June 15














Silver queen corn June 15


Silver queen corn June 27


Yellow Crookneck June 19
Yellow Crookneck June 27

Butternut June 19


Butternut June 27















This morning I had to bait some ants that had gotten into my nesting boxes in the chicken coop with a sweet honey and borax mixture.  This has worked for me in the past inside my house.  The little buggers take the borax-laced honey back to their queen, which kills off the whole colony.  I put the mixture outside the coop so that it wouldn't hurt my hens.  The girls seemed pleased that I raked out all their poop this morning - and added it to the compost trenches.




...after an hour the ants covered the lethal honey mix

Today I found the first little lima bean pods on the Fordhook plants.


The corn has pretty little pink things on the tassels.



Also on the farm...

Blooms on yellow crookneck squash

Fat tomato

Yukon Gold potatoes

Maple tree

Coneflower

Bee balm, Becky shasta daisies and coneflower

Hydrangea

Double-blooming daylillies

Gladiolas

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