Around Our Little Homestead – July 2012

Around here, we try to grow more food each year than the year prior. Here’s why. You can see my ambitious list of seedling started last year on this post. You should also check out this post because my chickens make me smile.

I’ll get this out of the way first:

There are not enough words in the English language to encompass the whole of my loathing of squash bugs. Thank you, fair zucchini plant, for the half dozen zucchini you blessed us with before those hideous beasts got the best of you.

Now, on to better things.

This is Zane:

Zane curled up to sleep in a pallet in the barn. Commence oohing and awing.

Our bell pepper plants are doing significantly better than the zucchini plant.

So are our tomato plants (all 75ish of them).

Our volunteer tomatillo plants are already providing fruit.

And I saved the best for last, the leek blossoms. These things are huge and they just make me happy.

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