Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 29 Entries. Friday, January 1 View Page Happy new year! Started the eating tomatoes today. 13 varieties: 1 Hazel Gold - cheddar cheese color 2 Inigo Apple - purple black 3 Snow White - white cherry very sweet 4 Armenian - beefsteak yellow/orange marbling 5 Piccolo - sweet red cherry 6 Julia Child - pink beefsteak firm juicy 7 White Queen - white beefsteak sweet 8 Ace 55 - low acid reduced cracking red 9 Blue Berries - purple cherry 10 Hawaiian Pineapple - beefsteak pineapple flavor 11 Aunt Ruby's German Green - beefsteak slightly spicy 12 Big Beef - beefsteak red 13 Purple Calabash Thursday, January 7 View Page All the tomatoes are up by day 7 Monday, January 11 View Page Have not grown pumpkins in two years but excited for 2016. Long TO DO list: soil test, amendments, plant a cover crop, work out a misting system, work out a watering system, build a couple small hoop houses, gather material for walking boards, figure out some type of wind fencing, deer fence, decide what to plant. Started the war with the pocket gophers today, set five traps this morning... Tuesday, January 12 View Page Transplanted the strongest couple of mater seedlings from each group Thursday, January 14 View Page It must be spring time! Tulips are sprouting Monday, January 18 View Page Getting some sun Sunday, January 24 View Page Shroom/weed cover crop Wednesday, January 27 View Page No setting for pumpkins so I went with beef, testing my hi tech germination chamber on the DVR, a constant 84 Thursday, January 28 View Page 20 hours later... got a root Friday, January 29 View Page 32 hours later Sunday, January 31 View Page Bored at church playing with the kids etch a sketch, working on the patch layout Monday, February 1 View Page Tomatoes are doing great Friday, February 19 View Page Trying for home grown worm castings, worms came today, red wrigglers and european night crawlers Friday, February 19 View Page Red wrigglers didn't waste time finding the dirt Friday, February 19 View Page Night Crawlers stayed clumped together and took their sweet time. They finally started moving around. Friday, February 19 View Page I found it funny that the newspaper the worms were wrapped in for shipping included the comics, especially this one Sunday, March 20 View Page Was able to spend some time yesterday on the patch. I borrowed the neighbors tractor and mowed and rototilled. I wanted to do it a month ago. The weeds grew really fast with all the rain then sunny high 70 temps. Some of the weeds had already started going to seed. Wednesday, April 13 View Page It's go time Friday, April 15 View Page Both 781 and the three 1134 popped roots, nothing from the three 1177. I started a couple more this morning just in case I don't get my 1177 to root. Sunday, April 17 View Page All three 1177 are in pots. They just took a couple days. Nothing from the back up 1583 VanderWielen or the 1947 Clementz, it is only been a day and half. The 1134 Rea and 781 Engel were up in less than 24. I told the girls fishing is best morning or evening, they wanted to go anyway. Only one bluegill and a couple hits from a bass, but they stuck it out for almost two hours Sunday, April 24 View Page So far so good Sunday, April 24 View Page Wanted to get some work done on planting holes, water system, deer fence, walking boards... Just no time for it this weekend Sunday, April 24 View Page Tomatoes have some fruit set... I let them grow a little too long before I thinned them out. I like to grow them on a single vine. Sunday, September 25 View Page Deer don't eat sunflowers Saturday, October 8 View Page They do like pumpkins Sunday, October 9 View Page Make that LOVE pumpkins Monday, October 10 View Page It took three different fences but I finally figured out what would work... as long I remember to turn it on Wednesday, October 12 View Page Slim pickings this year around our place. Tuesday, November 8 View Page Election Night. I am surprised how interested my little kids are.