Backyard Farmings
Weekly Update 7/11/14
News around our backyard farm:
- We harvested our garlic this week!
- We got a total of 101 bulbs of usable garlic which is only a few less then what we had planted last fall.
- Nick started his new job this past week!
- Our potatoes and onions are almost ready to be harvested!
- We finally have silk on our corn stalks so we should start to get our corn soon. Hopefully the same time we get tomatillos to make salsa.
Dottie
***Hen of the Week***
She has recovered well from hatching her chicks, although she is now at the bottom of the pecking order and is having trouble gaining all her weight back. Its a slow process so we have to make sure that she is getting the nutrients she needs.
Our Garlic Harvest
This is one of our bigger bulbs we got! The garlic got
to a good size this year compared to what we got last year.
What's Going On In Our Garden
Our bee balm is doing great!
Since we have some empty space from the garlic we decided to add a few more pepper
plants, can never have enough!
Side view of the broccoli, corn, and potatoes
Close up of the corn, it's getting super tall!
Finally some silk!!
We have picked most of the large broccoli heads and are now
starting to get the smaller ones on all our plants.
Our tomatillos! We love to make green salsa with these!
Our cucumbers are doing great! We have picked a lot ever since that first one
Sweet potatoes are really starting to vine!
Tomato plants are still battling with blight but it seems
to be doing okay. We are going to have a lot of tomatoes.
We finally have cucumbers!
Side view of the tomatoes!
A tomato plant that we placed in a pot because
it needed to be moved.
The potato box is ready to harvest!
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