Butterfly on some flowers near the top of the property.
The cabin from the roadside by the mailbox. Looks tiny!
Taken closer to the house, from the top of where my driveway starts.
More flowers near that spot.
Another butterfly "puddling" in the yard.
A few tomatoes starting finally. Two on the leftmost are Large Cherry, the other is a beefsteak, Mortgage Lifter.
This is what you get when you dump out the burn barrel. I drag a trash can out by the dump pile, put a bag in it, and toss all the metal into the can. The bags of cans go to the scrapyard whenever I get up early enough on a Saturday.
Some cucumbers and broccoli starting.
The beans so far, both plantings are doing well.
The tomato starts I bought and plants. They started out down by the lowest string. Now look at them!
Mazda (front) and Shelby (rear). Finally got photos of the rest of the cats.
Smokey. He moved as soon as I took the picture, then ran and hid.
And Cocoa. She has a sweet face.
So, yesterday, I hit up Home Depot. Found out they are still dumping plants cheap at 4/$10, so I picked up a green pepper, purple pepper, straightneck squash and buttercup squash. Also picked up a few more seeds. I'm out of Brandywine Red and couldn't find any more, so grabbed Black Krim instead.
Today, I broke more ground out behind the existing garden, such as it is, and put them in. I also replanted the last of what I'm going to try to get growing this year, redoing things one more time. I did find that two of the Brandywine Reds had started, so I replanted the other four cells with Black Kirm. I don't have a lot going right now, but whatever I get now will be the summer garden, and I'll put in a bunch of greens and late roots (carrots, radish, turnip and so forth) in a couple months, to harvest just before first frost.
As of today, I have growing the starts I bought, a bunch of Blue Lake 274 Green Beans, a whole THREE corn (Country Gentleman, I think), 3 Large Red Cherry Tomatoes, 2 Brandywine Red Tomatoes, 1 Mortgage Lifter Tomato, 1 Hale's Best Cantaloupe, 2 Straightneck Squash, 2 Sumter Cucumber, 2 Marketmore Cucumber, 2 Straight Eight Cucumber, and 4 rather leggy Calabrese Broccoli.
Chores got done early - trash out and burnt, bed made, laundry put up, and I will make me some spaghetti for supper pretty soon, with Italian sausage and garlic sauce. Back to the salt mines tomorrow.
Had to send HIM to Tractor Supply for liquid wormer for the cats - found out that at least four of them have a roundworm infestation, and Fuzzy, the most physically delicate of the lot, has the worst load of any of them. Treated them when he got back with the stuff. Most of them were okay about taking it, though Stars fought it (apparently, she doesn't like fish, and it has a fishy flavor to entice them to take it better), and Trouble and Oreo just let me give it to them without issue. The others varied in amount of "I don't WANT to take the medicine!" but all got treated. Retreat in ten days, and this time, I'll dump it in their wet food in the morning, haha.
Oh yes, and I made a video with my camera that I put up on YouTube to sort of show what I have going on here! If you want to see it, here's the link:
Bountiful Farm, June 2016
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