Life on the farm - June 2016

Well shoot it's been awhile.  Life if humming along here at the farm.  Seems I've been busy every weekend since early April working on the house getting it ready to sell.  Yep we'll be establishing a new city farm somewhere hopefully a little larger by next spring.  But that doesn't mean I didn't plant and don't expect to reap what I've sown this summer and fall.

First thing I did this spring was paint the greenhouse.  It's something I've been meaning to do for awhile now.

Now it matches the house and shed very nicely.  I also painted the whole house and ended up with about 2 gallons of the white left so I'll probably put a new coat on the shed and addons.

I also pruned back my raspberry bramble.  Over the years I've been slowly training my canes.  Last year I also did a big pruning on my 2 year old canes and had a bumper crop and it looks like this year will be the same.

 My local bees are very happy with the raspberry flower turn out, as am I.

 I ended up moving my pea fence to my other large bed to mix things up and give the old bed a rest.

 The green and yellow zuchs, summer squash and lemon squashes.

I've already harvested a few yellow wax beans and they will be eaten soon!

The only other thing in the green house besides long beans are my cucumbers, which aren't very tall, but are starting to put off a lot of flowers.

Mid June on the Farm

Still playing catch up with the posts.  Here's what the yard and garden looked like about June 14th.

 Peas and carrots up and going.

 Radishes radishing, lettuce and spinach growing fast and the beets are starting to pop.

 The taters are finally starting to set leaves

 In the greenhouse the beans and a few of the cuchs are up.

 The tomato starts are also doing good.

 The Zuchs are loving the sun.

And we have a few of the cabbages up as well, if I could just keep the cats out of the beds.

Early June

Start of the season.  We got a late start doing the whirlwind tour of the lower 48 introducing our son to the rest of the family.  But as soon as we got back we starting working on this years crop.  

I finally lined all my potato boxes with plastic to keep the boards from rotting. For some it was already to late.

 We ended up taking out one of the raised beds to move the chickens and their coop to their own part of the yard.  We have peas and carrots in the far bed and beats, radishes, spinach and lettuce in the closest one.

 In the green house we have 3 varities of long bush beans, a couple tomato plants and pepper plants we got as starts from a friend and cucumbers.

 I finally put some fencing up in the raspberry bramble to help support the canes and also make it a little easier to pick berries.

 Out front we have squash, zucchinni, and cabbage almost all from seed exept a few starts. I hope we have a decent enough summer.

And the first signs of life in the garden are these radish shouts.  Since I'm posting this late, this guys has already been dinner.