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Miller Homestead: April 2013
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013. I had a pretty aggressive plan for the orchard planting weekend, but thanks to help from my parents and my wife, we got almost all of it done, if a bit behind schedule. My parents were staying an extra day, so they kindly volunteered to do the transplanting of the final blueberries as well as cover crop seeding on Monday. Hopefully that went ok. I'll be headed back up somewhere around Memorial Day to see what looks alive. At that time I will also put either aluminum window sc...
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Miller Homestead: Garden Update
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Saturday, June 2, 2012. Here is how the garden looked as of a couple days ago. A few nice looking lettuce patches in serious need of thinning. The results of the thinning.1.5 lbs of good looking young lettuce plants. I started spreading it out about 2" deep. Muffin was supervising. Jaime also joined in on the supervision. It turns out that there is a lot of straw in those bales! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). OPB (Other Peoples' Blogs). Http:/ jaimelyn79.blogspot.com/.
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Miller Homestead: Random Garden Update
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Monday, July 15, 2013. In the pic below, the beans are on the left side, peppers and broccoli front and center, lettuce front right. Garlic and onions are on the right side, brussels sprouts in the center, and potatoes are all you can see in the back. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). OPB (Other Peoples' Blogs). Http:/ jaimelyn79.blogspot.com/. Http:/ robotsailboat.blogspot.com/. Http:/ millercityfarm.blogspot.com/. Http:/ mergenthalerschmidt.blogspot.com/. Http:/ krancehevery.blogspot.com/.
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Miller Homestead: August 2011
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Sunday, August 14, 2011. Yet another garden update. A random closeup shot of ripe edamame on the plant. Here are the fall greens that are coming along nicely. There is arugula, lettuce, rapini, and pak choi. They sure are doing a lot better than the same seeds in the spring. Sad looking tomato plants in the topsy-turvy that are somehow producing tomatoes. The first melon. I have high hopes for at least the flavor of these melons if not the quantity. These rainy days have been pretty common lately. In...
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Miller Homestead: September 2011
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Sunday, September 25, 2011. Here is my one good melon. Unfortunately I had to pick it before it was 100% ripe. There was a dent in the rind (just above my thumb) that was getting bigger and softer, so I decided to harvest it before it got any worse. Here is what it looks like inside. Not too shabby! On the other hand, the pepper plants are definitely NOT dying back. They are going crazy. Here is one of the bell pepper plants covered in peppers. Monday, September 19, 2011. After being away for a while the...
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Miller Homestead: Miller Homestead North
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Its been quite some time since I have posted on here, but there has been a recent homesteading development that merits a few posts. Miller homestead is expanding, and there is now a Miller homestead north! The soil is very sandy and acidic (pH was approximately 4.5). The area was fertilized, limed, tilled, and seeded with buckwheat as a cover crop. The buckwheat grew quite well. My mom was checking out the variety of insects attracted to the flowers. OPB (Other Peoples' Blogs).
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Miller Homestead: April 2012
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Monday, April 23, 2012. I guess we're going to find out how cold hardy the stuff I planted actually is. I'm more worried about the snow crushing the little sproutlings than I am about the cold.. Sunday, April 22, 2012. Of course another possibility is that I'd get some sort of whacky cross-pollination. For instance, might my cayenne peppers be growing so well because they are in fact an F1 hybrid of cayenne and one of the other varieties that I grew last year? Sunday, April 8, 2012. Alas, all three spro...
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Miller Homestead: March 2012
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Thursday, March 29, 2012. I decided it was time to harvest the carrots that I planted in late summer last year. At first it seemed like a great harvest, but it turned out that probably almost half of them were unusable due to either splitting open or having slugs and other critters eating out the middle of them. Still, I got about 1.25 lbs of good carrots. There were two things that didn't sprout, though. The kale and scallions did not come up. They were both older seeds, but I'm surprised that t...I fou...
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Miller Homestead: January 2012
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Thursday, January 19, 2012. Its that time of year again. The time of year when I get 1 or two seed catalogs in the mail every day, even though I never asked for them. I also have no need for them since I've already purchased my seeds for next year! I ordered some from www.groworganic.com. If you're wondering what I'm going to grow this year, take a look at my tentative garden map for next year. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). OPB (Other Peoples' Blogs). Http:/ jaimelyn79.blogspot.com/.
