The Queen (just resting her eyes a little bit). The Monster just can’t understand why Chacey doesn’t appreciate compost as much as the rest of us and makes sure to point out all of it’s great qualities to her on a regular basis. He gives her several examples of all the great things compost does….aids […]
Category Archives: Rattle’s Garden
I know several people who read this blog do so because they are interested in starting their own small farm someday so I thought I’d pass on a little information. Our friend Kelly from North Pulaski Farms is hosting a NCAT workshop for beginning farmers on April 6 and 7. The workshop is free and designed for new farmers or […]
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Mar
Mar
It rained practically all day yesterday. When the skies finally cleared late in the afternoon I went out to check on things in the garden. That is when this popped up. Rather than help him out of the mud, first I took the opportunity to catch him completely still for the first time in a […]
For the last two years I’ve had a touch of bee fever but not enough time to do anything about it. This spring I have it bad. So bad that when I went into research mode again two months ago I made III promise to keep me from buying a bee hive this year. We […]
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Mar
Mar
Last week Milan Monster had a surgery that we’ve known was coming for over a year. It was supposed to be no big deal and he handled it like a champ but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s scary anytime you have to take any child to the hospital to be operated on. Especially […]
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Mar
Mar
We started cutting tulips a week ago and while most of them made it into cold storage or have already been passed on to customers, I cut a few for Milan Monster to give Grandma this week. Almost all of our tulips are French tulips primarily because they are late season tulips which we need […]
17
Mar
Mar
I was told that the mushroom pics I’d posted so far were not doing the mushrooms justice. So….a few more. Before the mushrooms looked like this on their way to my kitchen yesterday, they looked like this….
13
Mar
Mar
Last week I posted a picture of this mushroom. Today it looks like this… The logs must have liked all the rain we got this weekend because all of a sudden I am seeing mushrooms everywhere! Milan monster and his grandma liked all the rain too. III was in Alabama for work today so I […]
11
Mar
Mar
When it looks like this outside the natives get restless and start looking for ways to escape. One whole day stuck inside makes me really thankful it has been such a mild winter. I think we’ve been outside for long periods of time every single day. I am glad though that the rain allowed me […]
08
Mar
Mar
It’s been so warm and windy here for the last week that we’ve been misting our mushroom logs several times a day to help keep them from drying out. Last Saturday we noticed that pins were beginning to form on a number of logs. This was exactly two weeks from when we shocked the logs […]