Updates
I had missed a couple of homestead high points, so consider this Homestead report 2.0.
A new garden: We had planted corn, soybeans and sunflowers THREE times in the spare goat pen. It gets some dappled shade so I thought it might grow some plants during the hot summer months.
In theory, it was a good idea. I hadn't counted on some malevolent creature eating off the leaves of every baby plant. I tried diatomaceous earth. That deterred them for a couple of nights, but by the third night there had been enough moisture to wash it away.
Some of the corn made it, so did the pumpkins. I'm not going to waste my time planting sunflowers and soybeans a fourth time.
Greg thinks it's a rabbit or some other rabid leaf-eating critter. They are very careful just to eat the tender leaves. :shakes fist:
Beans: Here's a tip for you. I popped several white northern beans straight out of the bag into some soil and got perfect little plants. I was so pleased. They take three months to grow so I don't know if they'll make it, but I'll put them in pots so we'll see what happens.
Buckling: Sold my little buckling right away. I was shocked that the buyer insisted on giving me more than my asking price because she felt I had priced him too low. That has never happened to me before. I thought it was a fair price.
That little goat pulled one over on me. His mother's udder was really full the next day. I checked her out and sure enough, she was still in milk--and very full. I milked her right away to relieve the pressure. I know all you moms out there know what I'm talking about. ;-)
That little guy must've been visiting the milk bar after hours. We thought she had weaned him.
Jet.com update: I placed an order with Jet.com and was relatively pleased. They are not as fast as Amazon. The dvds I ordered came straight from their distributor and took a solid five days to arrive. Still, I can't deny their prices were far better than Amazon. My first order granted me six months free membership (instead of the three they advertised). I'll used them for a while and see how they fare.
I will say that when they realized an order was going to be delayed, they promptly sent me an email to apologize for the inconvenience. I wasn't in a hurry, so it was no big deal.
I had forgotten this before but I'll bring it up if anyone is interested. Jet sent me an offer that if I send a friend a code, they (and I) get $15 off a $50 order. I don't know if the code is proprietary so I don't want to make it public. But if you're interested, email me and I'll send you the code. The offer ends September 1, so not much time. Sorry.
Nana: It's a terrible picture (from my phone in a very dark room) but I thought it was cute. There was some gawd-awful movie about Rin-Tin-Tin as a puppy. Schmaltzy and saccharin, but hey, cute dog.
Nana, my tv-watching border collie was mesmerized. I couldn't resist taking a picture of her watching Rinty.
Does anyone else have a tv-watching pet? Nana and Tank were the only two who ever watched and understood tv.
Have you ever put a grocery store seed in a pot to see if it would grow?
A new garden: We had planted corn, soybeans and sunflowers THREE times in the spare goat pen. It gets some dappled shade so I thought it might grow some plants during the hot summer months.
In theory, it was a good idea. I hadn't counted on some malevolent creature eating off the leaves of every baby plant. I tried diatomaceous earth. That deterred them for a couple of nights, but by the third night there had been enough moisture to wash it away.
Some of the corn made it, so did the pumpkins. I'm not going to waste my time planting sunflowers and soybeans a fourth time.
Greg thinks it's a rabbit or some other rabid leaf-eating critter. They are very careful just to eat the tender leaves. :shakes fist:
Beans: Here's a tip for you. I popped several white northern beans straight out of the bag into some soil and got perfect little plants. I was so pleased. They take three months to grow so I don't know if they'll make it, but I'll put them in pots so we'll see what happens.
Buckling: Sold my little buckling right away. I was shocked that the buyer insisted on giving me more than my asking price because she felt I had priced him too low. That has never happened to me before. I thought it was a fair price.
That little goat pulled one over on me. His mother's udder was really full the next day. I checked her out and sure enough, she was still in milk--and very full. I milked her right away to relieve the pressure. I know all you moms out there know what I'm talking about. ;-)
That little guy must've been visiting the milk bar after hours. We thought she had weaned him.
Jet.com update: I placed an order with Jet.com and was relatively pleased. They are not as fast as Amazon. The dvds I ordered came straight from their distributor and took a solid five days to arrive. Still, I can't deny their prices were far better than Amazon. My first order granted me six months free membership (instead of the three they advertised). I'll used them for a while and see how they fare.
I will say that when they realized an order was going to be delayed, they promptly sent me an email to apologize for the inconvenience. I wasn't in a hurry, so it was no big deal.
I had forgotten this before but I'll bring it up if anyone is interested. Jet sent me an offer that if I send a friend a code, they (and I) get $15 off a $50 order. I don't know if the code is proprietary so I don't want to make it public. But if you're interested, email me and I'll send you the code. The offer ends September 1, so not much time. Sorry.
Nana: It's a terrible picture (from my phone in a very dark room) but I thought it was cute. There was some gawd-awful movie about Rin-Tin-Tin as a puppy. Schmaltzy and saccharin, but hey, cute dog.Nana, my tv-watching border collie was mesmerized. I couldn't resist taking a picture of her watching Rinty.
Does anyone else have a tv-watching pet? Nana and Tank were the only two who ever watched and understood tv.
Have you ever put a grocery store seed in a pot to see if it would grow?
Comments
Bear will occasionally watch TV if it's something action-y that literally catches his attention. Otherwise, he's way more interested in me!
Before we got rid of the Wii, we could pull up bird videos on youtube and keep the cats entertained for at least 10-15 minutes.
betty
I haven't ever tried taking a bean straight from the bag and giving it a planting try. Sounds like a little science experinment worth trying with Chipmunk though.
My husband planted pinto beans last few years from the bag we use to make a pot of beans to eat and it worked great. As a matter of fact they grew quickly but when it got hot no amount of watering would keep them alive so we did not do that this year when he put in his spring garden.
Susan Says
Still, will I want to pay the $49 at the end of the trial? I don't know. Amazon is twice as much, but their selection is bigger.
I once stayed up all night with a dog who was terrified of thunderstorms. Fell asleep on the couch when the storm finally subsided, with the TV on. Woke up to a dog and two cats perched around me, all of them fascinated by Blue's Clues, which was on very early in the morning.
re: dogs
Apparently, you make a very comfortable body pillow. :)
My poor Chelly who was terrified of thunder used to lay above my head. Don't ask me why she felt that was the safest place. Normally she slept next to me, but during storms, I wore her like a Chiquita Banana hat.