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Apr
Apr
Just twenty days ago I posted pictures of the blackberries in bloom. Today they look like this…
Category Archives: Rattle’s Garden
26
Apr
Apr
My morning started with this…. The keeper of the chickens? My old “Goofy” bird. My blind white bird, “Sis”. Peepers that moved into the big coop last weekend. A few “clucks” from me and they come running. My partners patiently waiting.
25
Apr
Apr
This was the view from my office at 6:15 this morning as I was filling orders for the midweek markets.
23
Apr
Apr
I spent most of today planting eggplant and taking care of odds and ends around the farm. There are so many good things happening in the garden right now I almost feel like I shouldn’t dwell on the negative. Especially this early in the season…I know there will be plenty of time to complain about […]
After a little bit of research we’ve learned a little bit about all the good qualities associated with this vegetable we are flooded with right now. Also known as Chinese cabbage, it is in so many Asian recipes that if you’ve eaten much Asian food, you’ve probably eaten Napa cabbage. It’s a pretty vegetable with […]
21
Apr
Apr
I’ve never been a big fan of lettuce-growing it or eating it. Lately though I’ve seen some of the prettiest lettuces growing at my neighbors’ farms, and a little bit of pretty lettuce growing around here. It really makes me wonder why anyone buys that old iceberg lettuce from the grocery store when they could […]
20
Apr
Apr
Monster Milan and I made a “quick trip” to Iowa to visit my parents this week. It was a last minute adventure based on the fact that we didn’t have much to harvest and take to market last Saturday combined with two weeks of beautiful weather that let us get ahead in our planting schedule. […]
We don’t get soft-shelled eggs very often-I’ve only seen a handful in the seven years we’ve had laying hens. I find them fascinating though. The bluish egg in the back is a perfectly normal egg, the dark one in front has no hard shell, just a thick membrane holding it together. It didn’t take much […]
16
Apr
Apr
It looks like it has snowed in our rows of blackberries. We planted these last spring and really didn’t have any idea what to expect. We had read somewhere that we could expect to harvest about a quart a plant. Having only picked wild blackberries in the past my expectations were much lower. We’ll see […]
16
Apr
Apr
We’ve created a strawberry monster!