Done Planting 05/17/14

Ok. Enough. My back hurts. Total spent: $100 on 5 bags of black cow, 16 bags of top soil, veggies and wildflowers. Let's see how this works!

Sweet Potatos

Tomatos, Okra, Sunflowers & Gaillardia

Squash, Fordhook Limas, Bush beans, Garlic, Green Peppers and Gaillardia

Okra to the left and more sunflowers and African Daisy

Okra and flowers in the unboxed bed, Corn and Colored Limas to the right

2014 Plan

Yep, we are going to try again, folks!  This time we are planning to do a square plan of sorts (although we will throw in some rectangles because of a lack of wood).  Also, the plan is not to go crazy and just focus on feeding ourselves instead of the entirety of Forsyth County, Georgia.

We have some old furniture that we will break down and use for the outside of a couple of raised boxes.

Here's the plan:

Here's what the pictures mean:

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

June 25, 2013 : Pictures of Veggies

Silver Queen Corn

Blue Lake Bush Beans (a.k.a. green or snap beans)

Carrot

Kale

Fordhook Lima Bean

Tomatoes

Okra

Baby blue lake bush bean

(Itty Bitty Ninja Kitty, who thinks the trellis is for him) and Asparagus Bean

Asparagus Bean Yardlong dow gauk

Baby okra plant

Sweet potatoes

Yellow Crookneck squash

I've decided this is cantaloupe, not watermelon.  No watermelon took.  :(

Onion