Plant Sale 5/21/11 10am-2pm

We will be having a greenhouse sale on Saturday May 21st from 10a-2pm at our house on the top of the south hill. All plants are started from organic and/or heirloom seeds and are grown without the use of chemicals or fertilizers. We grow with basic potting soil(no fertilizer or chemicals) mixed with organic matter from our chickens and other compost, then we add water and love. We sold out of most of our tomatoes and peppers at our sale last weekend, but we have a ton of squash plants which are looking especially healthy!

Email me if you are interested and I will send you my address.

The quantities and prices of each plant are listed below.

Eggplant $2: Black Beauty-9, Long Purple-7

Swiss Chard-3 50cents

Broccoli-5 free

Yellow Onion-3 50cents

Cabbage- 1 50cents

Tomatoes $6, plants are already 18in-2ft tall: Green Zebra-6, Tigerella-1

Orange Pepper-1 $2

Mirasol Hot Pepper-11 $2

Cucumbers $1: Lemon-4, Homemade Pickle-4, Suyo Long-5

Squashes $2-3: Hubbard-20, Butternut-17, Underground Sweet Potato-7, Green/White Crookneck Squash-16, Cocozelle Bush Zucchini-7

Strawberries $3 (cut from our garden)- June bearer and day neutral-26, We also have decorative strawberry hanging baskets for $15

Sunflowers $2.50

If you are interested in coming by send us an email and I will give you directions. If you are planning on coming up and you have extra pots around the house you don't want, bring them up and we will gladly reuse them

Thanks!

27in tomatoes! 

Thanks for reading! 

The free seeds came today!

At the end of March I posted a link for free organic seeds. Im not sure if anyone followed the link, but ours came today.

Here's a list of the packets that we got: 

Lutz salad leaf beet, chioggia beet, two packages of rainbow inca corn, 2- cilantro, galilee blue double larkspur, arugula, endurance sunflower, 2- corno di toro sweet peppers, 2- pizza peppers, 3- barcarole lettuce, mesclun salad mix, cascadia bush snap pea, 2-black eggplant, 3- champion radish.

All for the price of shipping! Seeds of Change aren't cheap either. They are usually 3-4 dollars a packet. What a sweet deal! Thanks Jennifer for emailing this to me. 

Did you get any free seeds? Anything different? 

Thanks!

Peek-A-Boo

I see you!

Rufus the Rooster

For those of you who have chickens you will already know what I am talking about. Some chickens have a wonderful ability to make you love them.

This lil guy is Rufus. He is a Cochin. He is one of the baby chicks we got this spring.

This is his baby picture.

Not only is he handsome. He is turning out to be quite the perfect gentlemen.

He watches out for his ladies. He finds all the good bugs for them and promptly alerts them when he has a good find so they can come eat it too. He is even practicing his mating dance as well as the actual mating. He still needs some work, but he is getting there.

When entering the chicks yard he usually comes out to greet us and he likes to be held. Can't ask for much more in a chicken.

This is Fancy, she is a cochin. She is one of our very first chickens and one that we adore very much. I hope they become great friends when Rufus becomes bigger.

Pierre is Expecting!

Yesterday we found this odd sight in the chicken coop. 

This butt facing out is a lot bigger than the usual butts we see in the roost boxes. There is also a bunch of straw in the nest box which we didn't put there. We usually use paper shreds in the boxes instead of straw or hay. So, whoever is in this box must have put all that straw in there before climbing in.

Oh! Hello Pierre. What are you doing?

Oh hi! Im just, well, um, IM......

Sitting on an egg!

It's a bad photo, but sure enough. Pierre is setting on an egg. 

Since the geese have started using the pond we put in, we have noticed a great increase in the amount of mating between Sophie and Pierre. We are hoping for some babies this time!

A history of Pierre:

Pierre was not well liked by the other webbed footed friends when "he" came home with us on that wonderful day. It took a long time for the flock to except "him". We were told Pierre was a boy and Sophie, our other goose was a girl. We have found this to be total opposite. Pierre is the girl. Sophie is the boy. 

So, Kelsi and I got a lot of special attention from "him". "He" thought we were his parents. "He"followed us everywhere.

"He" especially loved to be held

It took a while, but eventually the flock took "him" in.

"He" still likes to be held every once in a while.

But "he" eventually became very independent. 

Earlier this spring Pierre made a nest in the middle of the coop. "He" would attack our feet whenever we walked by. So I guess the roost box is an improvement! Least he won't bite us when he's in there. (hopefully)

Have your geese ever hatched there own eggs? Any advice for us? We are pretty much on the side of letting nature do it's thing. We see no reason why Pierre shouldn't be able to do this all by herself. Like in nature.

Greenhouse Sale 5/14/11

The following plants will be available for sale at our greenhouse this next Saturday May 14th.

9am til 1pm

All plants are started from Heirloom and/or Organic seeds or seed saved from our own garden.

The quantities of each plant are listed below

Eggplant: Black Beauty-15, Long Purple-10

Swiss Chard-5

Bok Choy-3

Broccoli-11

Yellow Onion-10

Lettuce- 4

Tomatoes: Yellow Pear-12, Cherry Tomato-12 , Roma Paste Tomato-12, 

Green Zebra-13, Brandywine-12, Tigerella-12

Orange Pepper-18

Mirasol Hot Pepper-18

Cucumbers: Lemon-12, Homemade Pickle-15, Suyo Long-20

Squashes: Hubbard-21, Butternut-22, Underground Sweet Potato-12, 

Green/White Crookneck Squash-19, Dark Green Zucchini-7, Cocozelle Bush Zucchini-17

Strawberries (cut from our garden)- June bearer and day neutral-51

Sunflower- Mammoth-36, Ornamental Mix-36(Great colors for cut flower bouquets)

If you are interested in coming by send us an email and I will give you directions.

Thanks!

The Greenhouse is Overflowing!

 We have packed this greenhouse full! This is the most full it has been since we built it last year. We have twice as many plants than last year. We are putting plants in every square inch. 

We have 400 something plants in here. Most of which we are going to sell.

The squashes are coming along nicely! We have nearly 100 of them.

51 strawberry plants

Eggplants and peppers. They are still really small. The slow growth is very unusual for us. Last year the peppers were nearly a foot tall by this time.

Tomatoes are going crazy!

This yellow pear tomato plant is 17in tall already!

How are your plants doing?

Thanks for reading