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RANDOM SHOTS FROM AROUND THE HOMESTEAD TODAY

THIS FIRST ONE IS MY FREEZER STEER AND THREE OF COURTS FOUR HEIFERS,  THE FOURTH WAS LYING AT MY FEET

THIS IS THE PATCH OF MOSTLY CHICORY AND CLOVER THAT IS IN THE GARDEN…WELL THE WHOLE GARDEN HAS IT BUT i MOW PATHS BETWEEN THE ROWS.  DECIDED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO TO LET THIS PATCH GO AND SEE WHAT A COVER IT MAKES.  WILL BE THE SPOT FOR TOMATOES NEXT YEAR.

THIS IS COVER CROP BROADCAST ON A SACRIFICE ARE IN THE HORSE SIDE…SOWN ABUT SIX WEEKS AGO AFTER GRAZING.

I AM LIKING MY PLANT TOWERS….PICKED TWO CUCUMBER AFTER TAKING THIS PHOTO

PICKED MY FIRST TOMATOE FORM THE TOWER AS WELL….OKAY IT IS A CHERRY TOMATO BUT ITS MINE.  AND THE WIND HAS BROKEN THIS PLANT OFF TWICE.

GETTING A HANDFULL OF KIOWA BERRYS EVERY DAY FOR A FEW DAYS NOW…

NIMROD LIKES TO LAY IN THIS SPOT TO WORK ON HIS TAN.

THE SQUASH ARE DOING OKAY BUT THE LETTUCE HAS BOLTED…HAVE SOME MORE ON THE WAY

 

MARIES GUARD DOG….HE WILL ONLY LEAVE HER TO GO OUTSIDE WITH ME.

NEW SEEDLINGS BEHIND THE CHICKEN TRACTOR….I PUT DOWN SOME SEED EVERY TIME i MOVE IT

 

GUARD DOG ON THE LEFT…..WATCH DOG ON THE RIGHT

NELLY IS BACK TO WORK EATING WEEDS

PEPPERS ARE DOING OKAY EXCEPT THE DEER KEEP EATING THEM…ATE ONE DOWN TO THE STALK THE OTHER NIGHT AND WAS STANDING THERE WATCHING ME WHEN I WENT TO WORK IN THE MORNING.

i DO LIKE MY PLANT TOWERS…PRETTY AND PRODUCTIVE.  THE COLOR IS FILLING IN WITH THE FOILAGE…THE TOMATO IN THE TOP WAS A BRANCH THAT FROKE OFF OANTHER PLANT AND i STUCK IT IN THE TOP…THRIVING

ROCKS AND WATER….THIS IS A TUB OF GRAVEL FROM A FAILED AQUAPONICS EXPERIMENT….i COULD NOT ECONOMICALLY GET THE PUMPING RIGHT….SINCE THEN IT HAS BEEN A COVER CROP EXPERIMENT…HAD RYE AND VETCH IN IT OVER THE WINTER….NOW PEAS AND MILLET

THIS MATER IS ABOUT THE SIZE OF A BASEBALL….NOT LONG NOW

SPATTER IS HEADING FOR THE SHADE

SQUASH AND ZUCHINI ARE DOING WELL IN THE BALE GARDEN ROW.  CUCUMBER ON THE FAR END ON THE TRELLIS

SQUASH ARE BLOOMING AND BOOMING…PICKED THREE TODAY THE SIZE OF FOOTBALLS AND GAVE THEM TO THE CHICKENS.

SUMMER COVER CROP BUCKET 1….THE DEER LIKES THIS AS WELL…KEEPS IT MUNCHED.

SECOND PLANTING OF SUMMER COVER   PLANTED LATE MAY

TWO BUCKETS OF THIRD PLANTING SUMMER COVER…PLANTED EARLY JUNE…THESE BUCKET HAD COOL SEASON CROP…i CUT OFF THE COOL SEASON…SCATTERED THE WARM SEASON SEED AND CHOPPED UP THE COOL SEASON RESIDUE ON TOP OF THE SEED…IT WAS MOUNDED UP SIX INCHES AND THE SUMMER COVER IS COMING THRU IT.

THIS BUCKET OF SUMMER COVER WAS PLANTED MID JUNE…PREVIOUS COVER WAS FED TO THE GOATS

SUMMER COVER POT 1  THE DEEER HAVE NOT BOTHERED THIS ONE

SUNFLOWER HAS SHOT UP IN THIS ONE

DID I MENTION THAT I LIKE MY PLANT TOWERS

TOMATOS…3 PLANTINGS….3 VARIEIIES

OLDER CHICKEN TRACTOR TRACKS….NOW THE HORSES GRAZED THIS LOT IN EARLY JUNE AND i MOWED IT AFTER THEY CAME OUT SO THIS IS ALL REGROWTH.

PETE IS ALWAYS CURIOUS AND ASKING ……WATCHA GOT?