Blankets for plants
I’ve been using floating row covers in the greenhouse lately to add an extra level of protection on cold nights. Jugs of water around what few tender plants remain in there help a lot, too. The water warms with the...
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Prairie skies
Posted by admin | Dec 4, 2007 | Perspectives |
The view from the roadside across a section of prairie I pass on the way to town. It rained hard a couple hours after I took this photo. If you look along the horizon, you can see the heavy gray of the storm moving in from the...
Read MoreStrawberry joy!
Photographed November 30, 2007 – one very confused, but delicious ripe strawberry. You’d better believe I washed it off and ate it. Variety: Jewel Planted: September 2007 My supplier kept the dormant plants in cold...
Read MoreTickseed & leather-wings
Posted by admin | Sep 19, 2007 | Wild Things |
Tickseed sunflower (Bidens aritosa) This daisy-like flower appears in late August and blooms well into the fall. I suppose they can grow about anywhere, but I see them mostly in the lower ends of pastures and prairies where the...
Read MoreWe have a herd . . . sort of
Posted by admin | Sep 17, 2007 | Birds and Beasts |
Two weeks after the due date, Rosalie finally gave birth to her first calf. Rosalie’s a grade Jersey and was born here on the farm. She was bred to the same Limosin bull as Lottie. Unlike her mother, Rosalie chose a nice...
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