FergusonK's journal - Goodbye Java Jewel.

[MrsKuhn]

First I am so sorry for your loss K.

Second what an amazing day!!! And I think if the food was that good of a hit I need your recipes!

Adorable goats I am in love with them already

I am trying my hand at a garden this year It is a little more difficult that I thought lol

 

[babsbag]

Your garden is amazing, can't believe you have veggies already. I have tomatoes and peppers in and that is all. The dairy is taking ALL of my time right now but tomorrow I will get some more dirt added to the raised beds and get beans and squash planted and hopefully some corn. Your pictures have inspired me to get it done. I have to keep the chickens out too so more to do.

 

[Mike CHS]

As always I really enjoy your pictures and I have some serious garden envy. Our weather is just now solid enough to plant tomatoes.

 

[Ferguson K]

We started our plants in December and got most of them in the ground around March. My carrots and asparagus from this years planting I have a long wait on, but, the stuff I planted last year is edible. Last year the garden was flooded out due to strange rains and flooding, then starved with the end of the year drought. We saved some in buckets and planters. They sort out lived,and my long harvest veggies survived to be transplanted this year.

I really enjoy gardening, but I have top force myself to make time to do it. I stay so busy and gogogo.

 

[samssimonsays]

I envy you to be able to do all that you do! We are still dropping below or close to freezing at night so have to wait a week or more yet...

 

[ldawntaylor]

It is good to have a day spent with a friend. I'm glad you got the chance to do so.

Your garden is doing very well. Mine is still mostly a weed patch with some strawberry plants. We've had enough rain to make weeds grow but not enough dry weather to do much about it.

btw, that picture of the kitten and the dog was cute.

 

[Mike CHS]

We always have a wet spring but this year is another one of extremes. Been trying to cut hay in the main pasture for over a month now but Momma Nature isn't cooperating.

 

[Ferguson K]

@Mike CHS I'm glad we're not the only ones. Every time it gets dry enough to cut, it rains for 2 or 3 days...

 

[Mike CHS]

I try not to gripe about the wet winter and spring since we have had the place long enough to know that a dry spell is coming. I'm not sure how much nutrition is going to be in the hay since it's waist high already.

 

[babsbag]

I don't grow hay but I do buy alfalfa, about 2.5 tons a month. The first cutting is on the ground now and rains are headed our way this weekend. In CA we seldom get rain past mid May so this does not bode well for the alfalfa crop at all. Yesterday was 100° and this weekend is supposed to be a high of 69° and thundershowers. Hopefully the heat the last few days has allowed the hay enough time to dry and be baled. I really feel bad for someone whose living is dependent on the whim of the weather.