Roma tomatoes are making progress and green beans are popping up!
Meanwhile, I have yellow squash, zucchini, butternut, acorn, scallopini and pumpkin squashes all started as seedlings.
Cantaloupes, cucumbers and watermelons are coming up in seed trays.
I have new baby tomatoes and peppers germinating for a later crop.
Today I’m starting culinary herb seedlings. Chives, parsley, oregano and basil to start with!
Some baby greens, sweet peas, peppers, eggplant and tomatoes. Planted another crop of sweet corn today, too. Woohoo it’s a garden bonanza at Oasis Homestead!
Green beans and Lima beans planted. They are impatiently waiting for the scheduled rain this week to fall so they can spring into life!
Roma tomato plants going in the ground today. A healthy helping of horse poo will feed them well. Feeding my plants well with all natural elements, the way nature intended, is the best way to feed myself.
Beefsteak variety going in next!
Now can anyone guess how I grow tomatoes, every year in every state I’ve lived in (MI, FL, KY, AR, MS) without EVER watering them once planted out in the garden? Yes you heard me right. I HAVE NEVER EVER WATERED MY GARDEN TOMATOES IN 20+ years of growing them, yet they always produce. They never die from not getting enough water. So how can I do this?
I look forward to seeing your input
My first planting of taters are up! Yippee skippie
Check out my LUSH white clover field. All hand sown and meticulously maintained by me. I lost count how many times I’ve walked that field with my trusty shovel to hand dig out noxious weeds that my animals won’t eat. I’ve under sown Bermuda grass and will add some more lovelies as time goes on!
I learned something new today. Apparently my pups enjoy crunching on Mississippi Mud Bugs. I tried them for the first time the other day and thought my chickens would like to pick the carcasses clean. The pups rushed to the piles and dove in! Lol
First harvest of super sweet, sun-ripened organic strawbeerries! mmmm!
Some garden update pics….
I really had to get up close so you could see those teeny tiny carrots coming up FINALLY!
Onions 8” tall
Turnips 4” tall
Kale, mustard and turnip greens all 2-3” tall.
Baby cabbages, broccoli and turnip greens just coming up out of the ground.
My lovely beets already 2” tall
More teeny baby beets just coming up.
And my turnips from last year are done flowering, now making seeds.
My first planting of potatoes should be coming up anyday now….
Making homemade potting soil today.
I just love playing in animal poo! Lol! In the pot it goes so I can cook it up!
We have some lovely WEEDS coming in already. Aren’t they just a joy? Haha!
Pictured below you will see
Yippee!!!!
Check out my cabbages going to seed for me! Such little cuties!
Today I’ve planted garlic cloves, garlic scapes, turnip greens, beets, lettuce, kale, and mustard greens. Now on to the last bed with red onions. I have 2,500 linear feet or roughly 1/4 acre, of garden planted already. Soon I’ll be starting on potatoes — reds and whites!
Would you believe this gorgeous plant is just the lowly turnip going to seed? Isn’t it amazing how beautiful vegetables can be?! I have a whole row of these lovelies that will give me fresh new turnip seeds for Fall harvest.
💥💥UPDATE💥💥
The male pup has been sold. Only the 1 female pup from this litter is still available.
2 brother and sister litter mates, rolling around in spring grass having a good ole time.
She says: PET MY BELLY!
so of course I must pet her belly. Lol
He says: AINT I ADORABLE!
So of course I have to rub that little adorable chin. Lol
These 2 crack me up.
See comments under each pic for more details.
Look at my beautiful wheat, y’all!
How does she plant 8 ACRES of produce every year WITHOUT A TRACTOR?
Im glad you asked. I’d like to introduce you to my handy dandy wheel hoe. I have lots of different attachments that fit on it. Today I fitted it with the pieces that cut a planting furrow in tilled soil.
Here’s how it looks:
