Category: Updates

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!

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!!!!

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…..

Roma Tomatoes & Green Beans!

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!

Look at those cuties!
Green beans bursting into life just days after being planted!

Roma Tomatoes Planting Today

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

Tater Time!

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!

Garden Coming Along Nicely

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….