The Flicker Haven Farm Files-Stackin It Edition
That's right, I'm stackin it high here! I mean just look at what I have spent the last three days applying to various parts of the garden:
Not gonna lie, as I shoveled out and applied my mostly composted bovine fecal matter bounty, I might have daydreamed about liquifying it a bit and spraying it on some politicians....
Anyway, fun fantasy time aside, a few days ago I noticed my baby corn stalks weren't looking as green as I like in color. There's this depth of green that a properly fed corn stalk attains, so being the amiable homesteader that I am, I had my hubs bring me over a bucket of this winter's cattle paddock offering. The manure has been in a pile for the last couple months, getting turned on occasion, but let me tell ya, there is still some heat in that glorious amendment, a thing that the corn loves.
And sure enough, within just a day or two, I noticed the corn's shade o' green deepened to the color that I like to see. Yay nitrogen! (Or is nitrogen bad now? I can't keep up...sigh)
After bucketing and shoveling my black gold onto the heavy feeding plants (squashes and corn) I also hilled the potatoes a bit and put another application of fish and kelp emulsion on them, the peppers, and the tomatoes. Don't want to too heavily nitrogen those cultivars or I won't get any yield. That's like dropping fresh cow manure on your flip flop. Not fun.
The following morning, before I got my hands (they were gloved, I am not that much of a heathen) in the manure compost, I picked a bowl of snow and sugar snap peas. Tonight's dinner is going to be a buttery, garlicy pile of stir fried pea delight, YUM!
The kale needed picked too, but the thing I was the most excited about was popping the first garlic bulbs out of the ground. The very smallest of the crop was ready, as the scapes were dying back to the proper yellow green shade that indicates it's harvest time.
Just check out the size of my smallest garlic bulbs! SQUEE!
There's a bit of a trick to harvesting garlic. Well, not really a trick, just the way you are supposed to do it. You aren't supposed to pull garlic out of the ground. I use a potato fork and lift it out, clean off the roots, and leave both the roots and scape on the bulb for a bit of a cure-fest. I seriously cannot wait for the two weeks of curing time to elapse. Hello roasted garlic on toast time!!
I also put some manure compost on the hops. The one plant is well over ten feet tall now, and as hops are heavy feeders I thought it was only kind of me to give the plant some nutrient rich food since it is trying so hard to be an over-achiever in the growth department. I am really looking forward to some hops tea this winter!
After making the hops happy, I wandered over to the zucchini plants, and like curcubita magic, there were a few zucchini growing on the plants. I swear they weren't there a couple of days ago. Dangit, I am not ready for a zucchini onslaught yet! I am still catching up with late spring stuff!
And on that note I am going to leave this missive. We had some new arrivals on the farm in the middle of the night (In my close no less, post of cuteness incoming!). There's chorin to do and weeds to pull!
Great work in the garden!
Thank ya!😁
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Thank you!!!
Love the garlic! Looking forward to harvesting my own.
Ooh! I hope you get a gargantuan harvest!
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Holy 💩
You had a shitten good time. Lol.
My favorite line: fecal matter bounty, I might have daydreamed about liquifying it a bit and spraying it on some politicians....
Hahahahaha
You made my day after 3 hours of mowing .
Thank you.
I can think of a few politicians in Canada also. Hehe.
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You mowed hard! NICE!
And yes, I thought of a good many authoritarian creatures whom could use a good excrement dousing whilst I was laboring. However, your shitten good time comment and expressed mirth made my morning, so I am pretty sure we are even now lol!
Laterz Professor P!
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It must be so lovely to have such a big piece of ground where you can grow all these delicaties! I wonder if you process them all for your own family or is part of it also meant to sell?
Either way, great job again working in the garden hehe, and making us laugh about liquifying a bit for politicians :)
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Morning!😊
Long ago I used to sell my agricultural wares at the local farmer's markets, but these days I just grow it for us. Well, and everyone else, there's lots and lots of giveaways to friends, family, and acquaintances lol!
Glad I got a chuckle out of ya, I swear every time I read the news I have to go decompress or do something ridiculous to balance out the horror and despair vibes that it yields.
Hope you are having the most fabulous day!
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Hmm, my squash plants are looking rather pale and wan. I better visit the manure pile!
Yes! Manure!! My corn is even more chlorophyll-green awesome today lol!
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Crops are looking great, @generikat.
If manure is that good for the corn, I would imagine that Washington D.C. is deep green.
LOL! 😆
No doubt the soil is beyond fertile in that part of the country!
Thanks for the lolz @beststart!
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Love that machine, I wish I could buy one. Good evening!
Oh I so hope you can get one at some point too, the tractor has been invaluable over the last fifteen years!
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I come from Dracula's country, we really love garlic here! 😆
What's that doggy doing there, guarding you or the plants?
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By the time the soil reaches 50F or above, if you haven't destroyed the biology by tilling or black plastic, the biology will generate all the nitrogen plants needs. Too much nitrogen weakens plants making them prime for pest and disease attacks.