Real Farming, Small Scale

We have just about finished with the addition of flowers and vegetables for this year. There might be a few more flowers coming in the front yard and we want to start a couple of different varieties of sunflowers in the back yard but that's about it.

I took the rust off the post from the old satellite dish, painted it and added a couple of brackets. Now it is a support for two hanging baskets. I also transplanted some daylilies from the bunch at the back of the yard to the base of this post. Those daylilies originally came from Sue's father's house in Erie. A few years ago, I transplanted some to surround the base of our mailbox. Last year I put some along the garage side of the house in between hosta. The original plot just keeps replacing the plants that I take out. You can see that starter area in the rear right in the picture below. Anybody want some daylilies from Grandpa's house? We might be able to provide lilacs that came from Grandma Halter's house too.



The garden has 10 tomato plants, plus some peppers, carrots and butternut squash. We planted everything last week, but yesterday we added an automated slow soaking watering system and a fence to keep Wickett and the rabbits from wandering through the garden. The soaker comes on every 12 hours(about 6am and 6pm) and runs for 30 minutes. This is a new wrinkle for us so we'll see how it works out.


Another new venture is the small wildflower patch. We had some seeds that we got at a wildflower farm in Texas. I've been keeping them damp, so we should know soon if they are going to come up.