Just wanted to give everyone a peek at what's been happening here on our little Feisty Farm.
Who would have thought I would be so excited about a pile of rotting food, dead grass and leaves? I love it! I love a challenge and composting is a challenge! The carbon-to-nitrogen ratio is very significant. It should be about 30 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen. My nitrogen level is currently higher than my carbon level, but I'll fix that tomorrow. This is a picture right before I turned the pile. The only downside to my compost pile are the fungus gnats. But really what can you do when they are naturally attracted to moisture and fungus? Luckily they aren't harmful and dangerous. I guess I will just have to learn to like them. HA!
These are our pepper plants. Banana, Poblano, and Serrano. The rest of this bed will be for squash, zucchini, lima beans and possibly green beans. Since this is the first garden I have ever done I have no clue what I am doing. It is definitely a learn as you go process.
In the front is my one cucumber transplant. There are 2 hills next to this plant that obviously didn't photo well. They are also cucumbers. I noticed one of the seeds has a tiny sprout on it today. I was so excited. Let's hope it takes off.
In the back of the photo are our two tomato transplants. We have a few more seeds in some peat pots in the house, but they are no where near ready for transplant. Again, I'm learning as I go. I am open to any and all advice!
Do you see that little white blob??? Do you see it?? That's one of my purple hull peas!!! Sorry that the photo is so terrible, but my point-and-shoot is all I have.
A picture further away of the pea. It's that white spec in the center. I can't wait to see what this does.
I am looking forward to see what all these plants do in the next few weeks. We didn't plant much because we are not too sure what we are doing. We want to make our garden much bigger than this, so I have been thinking I may plant some cover crops in the areas we will expand next year. I am still reading up on how exactly cover crops work, so we shall see.
The next big project coming to the Feisty Farm is our chicken coop. We really need to get this done soon if we plan to have chicks in the kids Easter baskets next month.
*** I almost forgot about my fruit!***
We have peaches!!! At least that is what we think this tree is. It was here when we moved it, but was no longer producing by the time we moved in. The tree is COVERED in peaches. I don't know what I will do with all these. I guess it is still to learn how to can so these beauties can be used throughout the year. Maybe I can try some peach jelly?? We shall see. Anyone have any advice on canning peaches or making peach jelly?
2 comments:
Tell Jackson they taste like blueberrirs and he will eat them all up! Haha
Good morning, "Mrs. Farmer".
I wish I was there to help you.
Peach jam is very good... Made lots of it... you can also, slice and freeze the peaches.
If you don't have a pressure cooker or canner, you can bring to a boil the peaches in it's syrup and put in cans, quickly tighten lids on, let them set until cool.
Good luck, good fun, good eating.
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