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.
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| Sweet potatoes June 25 |
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| Sweet potatoes June 15 |
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| Silver queen corn June 15 |
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| Silver queen corn June 27 |
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| Yellow Crookneck June 19 |
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| Yellow Crookneck June 27 |
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| Butternut June 19 |
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| 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.
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| ...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...
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| Blooms on yellow crookneck squash |
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| Fat tomato |
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| Yukon Gold potatoes |
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| Maple tree |
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| Coneflower |
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| Bee balm, Becky shasta daisies and coneflower |
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| Hydrangea |
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| Double-blooming daylillies |
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| Gladiolas | |
