Sawdust’s Garden 2023
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Goats are smarter than people. While people still tend to want to have goats I have never heard of Goats wanting to have people.
My goats want to be anywhere I am, they would come in the house if we let them.Goats are smarter than people. While people still tend to want to have goats I have never heard of Goats wanting to have people.
That is the way three of these guys are. The other two not so much as they don't really like the hands on bit.
We’ve been picking boat loads of squash, zucchini, and cucumbers. These so called bush cucumbers are by far no bush at all. They are running everywhere, over top of the bush beans, up the fence and through the flower bed outside of the garden. Worse than all that you can’t see them without crawling around to push everything around. Picked our first tomatoes over the weekend, it looks like a lot will be ready at the same time. I’ve had to tie them up every other day. We picked a little more than a half bushel of pole beans on Tuesday will probably pick more on Saturday. Carols been canning several kinds of pickles, and freezing some cucumber salad. She canned what beans we picked yesterday. We still have 17 quarts of beans from last year. I dug a few potatoes to see what I had, a little better than last year but they fried up real good. Peppers are popping out now nicely jalapeños, bell, and poblano. Peas are all dead not sure what happened to them. Third planting of carrots are sprouting, second bed of lettuce is sprouting, beets are doing good. Onions are about done. The corn is about 4” high so I’ll be getting my critter gitter out soon.
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Onions are drying and about ready for storage. Picked the first 2 tomatoes this morning. Put the square cages around them and havent touched them since. Staying in the cages in good shape with only a couple branches on the ground. Lot of green ones. No cucumbers, only a couple peppers, no Zucchini, cauliflower or egg plant either. Radish and leaf lettuce was great. Onions did good. Rest of the garden was a waste of time. Have some beets in the ground I think. Under cover of grass and weeds. If it wasn't for the tomatoes I would turn the goats in and let them have at it.
What little we planted this year just didn't seem to grow very good, tomatos are skimpy, beans are only about 6" high but I did notice a bean yesterday and the critters kept digging the watermelon out getting the seeds. when we thought we were going to have tomatos the deer got them first, I did notice there were more starting to grow.
Sounds like it's time to introduce your deer friends to rock salt.
Carolyn went in to the farmer market yesterday. Usually have 12 to 15 vendors with lot of stuff this time of year. Yesterday there were 3 vendors. Carolyn got one big onion and 3 cucumbers and a Rhubarb pie. Nobody has any thing from the garden. Either didn't grow or not ripening. Ground is still moist under the tomato plants yet so no watering for a day or two. At least with the heat, no wind to suck the moisture out.
Carla keeps saying we need to get a block.
I'm talking from the muzzle of a shotgun.
Wow Chris I could probably count on one hand of the people that have told me they don’t like venison. I have tried it so many ways wanting to like it but and I can’t. Two times it made me gag and I had to spit it out. It’s weird because I love beef.I don’t happen to like venison
My late MIL didn't like venison and one weekend she went to visit her sister so Carla fixed a roast, she came home early and stopped at the house before she went home ans asked what was cooking Carla told her a roast so she came back at supper time and took a big piece of the roast and went back for seconds. Next day we told her what it was and she just wouldn't believe us. When she dug into the meat you could have to pry my jaw off the floor.
Jim my wife can fix a venison roast you would think it was beef if you didn't what it was beforehand.
Jim my wife can fix a venison roast you would think it was beef if you didn't what it was beforehand.