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 | June 17, 2009
There are lilies throughout the farm wherever Jen has found the desire to plant them. She knows better than I which colour is going to jump out when they go from bud to bloom. My guess for these is yellow, but I’ll probably be incorrect.
Bob | June 11, 2009
We’ve used hostas for quite some time now in our bouquets as greenery or filler. It’s always a joy to watch them go from little spikes coming out of the ground to full bushy leafiness in a short four weeks. All that and without needing much sun either as they are a shade [...]
Bob | April 6, 2009
We continue to transplant daily. The time of year is changing however, and it is easy to work in the greenhouse for a while and then feel “done” for the day. In the next week we’ll turn our attention to spring clean up of the entire property. The winter wind has a habit of blowing [...]
Bob | April 2, 2009
Transplanting is in full swing. We pull the baby plants from their plugs and put them into larger plug sheets or pots. This will be their last artificial home for the next few weeks and then they’ll go right into the ground.
Bob | March 30, 2009
The first rows of the year have been planted. Some seeds actually require it to be quite cool in order to germinate, and conditions were right to get two rows seeded this past Saturday. Sunday morning an early rain moistened the soil and the seeds and we’ll see plants peeking out in a couple weeks.
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Jul | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | ||
Proudly Powered by WordPress | Theme by The Cloisters | Entries RSS Comments RSS
The Hired Hand