Author: Oasis Homestead

Sprouts!

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Choose from 4 different types of sprouts or try them all:

  1. Alfalfa sprouts for cellular healing and repair
  2. Legumes for vegetarian protein source
  3. Mother grain and seed mix – complete protein
  4. Tasty Salad sprouts

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Taters n Maters, Oh My!

Today I worked in my taters and maters. Check out some pics with descriptions below each…..

What the taters looked like BEFORE I weeded and mulched…
What the taters look like AFTER I weeded…
Just beginning to mulch the taters…

Using wild cane to support my maters….


I use 2 canes pushed into the ground at opposite angles to create compression instead of tying the vines.

Paper Plant Pots, Anyone?

Have you ever made paper plant pots/ I can teach you how in under 1 minute! These are a fantastic way to reuse old newspapers and the pots work perfectly for plants that don’t transplant well.

Here’s a few pics for you to see how I use them for my tomato seedlings

The paper pot stays together quite well even when it’s completely soaked through week after week. Wait until your seedling reaches two to three inches of height above the edges of your paper pot before transplanting.

Dig your hole six inches deeper then the height of the paper pot edges. Put three inches of homemade manure mix into the bottom of the hole. Place your potted transplant directly into the prepared hole without disturbing the tender plant roots which are safely protected inside.

Be sure to bury the entire paper pot. All edges should be under two inches of dirt. Press the soil around the plant firmly. Take care to gingerly replace unharmed earth worms back into the hole. Our earthworms are very important so try not to hurt them.

Your transplant should be recessed beneath the surrounding soil surface by about two inches when finished. Use the remaining soil left over from digging your hole to creat water rings around the transplant’s perimeter.

Put down a light layer of mulch immediately. Remember to never leave our precious life-giving soil bare!

Natural Mulch

Here you’ll see what a lovely bed of natural mulch looks like around your thankful garden plants. This is the second application I’ve put down. You make the mulch bedding deeper and wider, as the plants grow up taller and wider.

If you employ this wonderful NATURAL MULCHING principle to all your plants, you’ll only weed your plants heavily once. After that, it’s just a few straggler weeds here and there for the rest of the season. NO HERBICIDES NEEDED EVER!!!

I transplanted the first set of yellow squash and zucchini today. Forgot to snap a pic of those pfft!

On the left – Tomatoes that have been bedded in mulch twice On right – Tomatoes that have been bedded only once
Green Beans looking proud
Lima beans making their debut

More beans!
More tomatoes mulched the second time
Ran out of mulch for today, they’ll get more soon!

Welcome To the Fam, Goat Fella!

Everybody please say hello to Oasis Homestead’s newest edition, a three month old new 100% Lamancha buckling. When he is old enough, he will be bred to the baby doelings that are born here. The doelings he produces should be exceptional milkers since they’ll be mixed with Saanan, Alpine, or Nubian or could be bred to my 100% Lamancha doe – all milk breeds.

Help me choose a name for this little guy!

Market Time!

I think the time to be at the market is finally here folks!!
It looks like I’ll have some spring onions, greens, radishes, turnips, sprouts, and who knows what else I’ll find while I’m picking.

Remember all my produce is NON GMO and raised naturally. Yum yum 😉

I’m baking fresh sourdough bread made from my own WILD SOURDOUGH STARTER!!
Chocolate chip molasses cookies
Oatmeal raisin
And who knows what other surprises I might have for you.

I have some new business cards with a special discount on the back of each one just for my repeat Healthy Shoppers! Make sure you ask for your card to get your reward.

Sign up for your customer birthday gift too!!

Just like last year, I’ll be announcing on this page when I’ll be at the Senatobia Farmers Market. Be watching!!!
I can’t wait to see y’all there, it’s been too long!!!!

Victory!


We effectively reached a level of training victory yesterday. All of my oldest female pups (born Dec 2017) are responding instantaneously, on a verbal STOP command from far away. I no longer need to be within close proximity to administer corrective commands.

They started barking an “intruder alarm” at the Guinea hen who ventured out of her normal penned area. My adults and older pups of course already know that the guinea is allowed to roam freely so they paid her no attention. The younger pups, unaware of this privilege, began charging the Guinea in their effort to patrol and control their grounds.

I immediately yelled a firm “NO” from roughly 150’ away. At which time they all instantaneously stopped their pursuit and looked at me to be sure they were in fact, being scolded.

With me maintaining complete eye contact and alert body posturing, they recognized this as an affirmative scolding. They immediately changed their direction and resumed playing together harmlessly. Guinea unscathed and the pups now understand that she has freedom to roam.

A well behaved and highly responsive Livestock Guard Dog on your working farm is nothing short of an absolute treasure. 💕

Seedlings Galore!

The Lima beans are up and the green beans are taking off! Yeeha

So recently I’ve started a bunch of new seedlings.
I have:
no less then 100 okra plants going
Boston pickling cukes
Straight 8 cukes
Hot jalapeño
Cayenne
Paprika

Herbs:
Spicy basil
Rosemary
Cilantro
Dill
Thyme
Spearmint
Sage

Flowers:
Forget me nots
Nasturtiums
White and yellow Daisy’s
Columbine
Pink and white allisum
Coleus
Marigolds
Zinnias
Poppy’s
Bachelor buttons

And more to come…..