Bob | June 25, 2010
It’s always neat to watch Sunflowers track the sun. After they’ve established themselves and get to a certain size you’ll see the heads always pointing towards the sun. Here the sun is going down and you can see the sunflower head dipping down as it goes.
Bob | August 15, 2009
I’ve been meaning to take more of these types of shots to show just how much things can change in two months. Yep, that’s the same bed from almost the same angle.
Bob | July 5, 2009
So between the kids, dog, cats, guests, and wildlife we often get the question about flowers getting stepped on. Yes it happens. The solution so far works great, we simply grow more than we need and don’t sweat it when it happens.
Bob | June 6, 2009
It’s about time we start to post pictures of things actually growing. Here you see some newly planted zinnia plugs straight from the greenhouse into the dirt. It will take a bit for them to “catch” but once the roots get down good and we get some hot weather they’ll soon fill the [...]
Bob | May 30, 2009
More and more manure. More and more tilling. There isn’t a whole lot to look at that isn’t brown at this time of year unless you walk up real close to the beds. Here we prep one of the few remaining beds for this season. Just a few more to go [...]
Bob | April 20, 2009
All of our nutrient inputs come in the form of composted cow, sheep, and goat manure. Each year in April we have a number of loads of cow manure delivered from the neighbour, and we mix that with our pile of sheep and goat manure. That pile gets flipped about 3 times over 12 months, [...]
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