On the spur of the moment Amy, Audrey and I decided to keep driving once we were in Searsport today and head north just to see Mt. Katahdin. I’d only ever seen it from great distance before (Greenville). This time we drove north up 95. The sun was starting to get low in the sky when we suddenly saw it – the afternoon sun was lighting up the snow on its slopes. What a sight. I wish I had one of the real cameras with me – I only had my Blackberry. I’ll post a photo later.
February 6, 2010
May 6, 2008
Bees
Falling behind in posts already. On Monday (5/5) I cleaned out the old foundation on 6 frames and added them to the brood chamber that I’d left with three frames after cleaning out the mouse debris.
Bees are busy! And another nice day today.
April 30, 2008
Rain
We got 4.5″ of rain yesterday. The garden beds look pretty good though, albeit a ton of weeding to be done.
April 29, 2008
Oats
On Sunday I planted one row of oats next to the bigger row of peas. I’m still searching for an Aperture Plugin to make it easier to export to WordPress…
April 23, 2008
Wheat
Calculating how much wheat to sow in the two rows. The first is in the smaller of the two beds – the row is 61 sq ft. So, at (thinking out loud here…) 5 lbs per 1000 sq ft, this should get .3 lbs., or about 5 oz. Thinking this to much?
The second row is nearly 80 sq ft. So I’ll need 6.5 oz.
April 11, 2008
Sunflowers
Well, I need to get back in the swing of this. Yesterday I pulled up all the old sunflower stalks from last year. I hope I can find someone to till that ground again, I plan to put Sweet Peas along a simple fence I want to put up there.
October 21, 2007
Garlic
I planted the garlic today. Three varieties that I grew last year, and two that I got at the Common Ground fair. First I put in Siberian Red (from the fair), then Georgia Crystal followed by another from our crop, whose name I have misplaced (hence this blog to help keep better records!), then German White from the fair, and Kettle River from our crop.
September 23, 2007
Hoop Houses
We saw Eliot Coleman speak yesterday at the Common Ground fair. He was showing his new method of quickly creating a 2 row hoop house. It looked like a nice easy way of doing this. The one question I have is that because he and Johnny’s couldn’t get a device on the market that bent metal conduit in time, he was using PVC conduit.
We’ve heard for some time the issues that seem to exist with PVC and with the release of the Body of Evidence report, I was a little surprised and disappointed to see PVC used here. Not wantingn to spend the money (and lacking the skill) to bend mental conduit, I wonder if I could cut some saplings for the same purpose. I think I’ll give this a try later this week. I’ll only need about 5 for the short beds I plan to use it with…
September 22, 2007
Harvesting – and the Common Ground Fair
We’ve had two or three nights of light ground frost – most of the tomatoes are in. The beets are still nice and sweet. I might get one more batch of the Haricot Vert beans in – that would be nice. Laurie and Audrey picked all the Basil plants, they are now sitting in buckets in the porch. The potatoes are looking pretty good too – the Katahdin in particular has died back and are a nice size. Perhaps we’ll do those tomorrow if the weather is nice. I brought all the onions in over the past week and they are up in the barn curing.
We’re off to the Common Ground fair is a few minutes. It’s foggy now but that’s supposed to lift. Audrey’s going to be mad mad mad if it doesn’t – the majority of her class took the day off yesterday and went on a sunny hot day.
August 27, 2007
Peaches and Beans
Over the weekend Laurie canned 16 quarts of peaches and I froze 3 bags of beans. Also picked 6-7 lbs (need to buy a scale) of crab apples.