Walnut Hollow Farms
Blog
1/19/2011
Lucky
In October when me chickens were sold one was left behind. She was a small girl, highly mobile, and not easy to catch. Dad came by and worried about her fate, he took her home with him. Better than a Presidential pardon on Thankgiving day. Lucky now lives out her retirement next to the spared pig. Truly the lucky one.
Lucky
In October when me chickens were sold one was left behind. She was a small girl, highly mobile, and not easy to catch. Dad came by and worried about her fate, he took her home with him. Better than a Presidential pardon on Thankgiving day. Lucky now lives out her retirement next to the spared pig. Truly the lucky one.
2/6/2011
Transplants
I got a new Ladbrooke soil blocker yesterday to form seedling transplant cubes. This tool will help make the farm more self sufficent by eliminate the need to buy "made in china", plastic transplant trays.
The rain today provided me with the perfect opportunity to try out my soil blocker. I formed up and seeded about three hundred pepper and eggplant transplants indoors.
I started eleven hundred German Johnson tomatoes, and wired two high pressure sodium lights for them. This should be enough tomatoes.
Transplants
I got a new Ladbrooke soil blocker yesterday to form seedling transplant cubes. This tool will help make the farm more self sufficent by eliminate the need to buy "made in china", plastic transplant trays.
The rain today provided me with the perfect opportunity to try out my soil blocker. I formed up and seeded about three hundred pepper and eggplant transplants indoors.
I started eleven hundred German Johnson tomatoes, and wired two high pressure sodium lights for them. This should be enough tomatoes.
3/6/2011
Tamworth barrow
The wife, kids and I rode to Rutherfordton for the RS Central High School FFA pig auction. I had promised the kids a baby pig. There were about fifty for sale and they picked one of the smallest, which would be near the end of the auction. When our pig came into the lane the kids came to life and began pushing my arm skyward to force me to bid. I had to buy him, and everyone in the barn had a good laugh. We brought home a six week old long red male with black spots, or polka dots as the kids have said.
7/9/2011
Up side down bees
The strong winds we had night before last flipped one of my beehives off of its stand and placed it up side down on the ground. I suited up and up righted them with out a sting or incident.
I did notice too many hive bettles as I fipped the hive back. So, Monday I'll ride to town and buy a bettle trap.
Tamworth barrow
The wife, kids and I rode to Rutherfordton for the RS Central High School FFA pig auction. I had promised the kids a baby pig. There were about fifty for sale and they picked one of the smallest, which would be near the end of the auction. When our pig came into the lane the kids came to life and began pushing my arm skyward to force me to bid. I had to buy him, and everyone in the barn had a good laugh. We brought home a six week old long red male with black spots, or polka dots as the kids have said.
7/9/2011
Up side down bees
The strong winds we had night before last flipped one of my beehives off of its stand and placed it up side down on the ground. I suited up and up righted them with out a sting or incident.
I did notice too many hive bettles as I fipped the hive back. So, Monday I'll ride to town and buy a bettle trap.
