Ice Storm 2009

Here are a couple of more pic's of the storm damage from Tuesday. The first is the front of the house. The limbs are covering my power line, but its still on. The second is the back side, where the biggest branch's fell.

Winter Hell!!!!!

Well, we got hit again by bad weather. 3/4" of ice on these tree's is not pretty. Here are a couple of pics. There are Branch's everywhere. Its hit and miss on power. I have power and cable, but both cables have limbs hanging on them. More to come...

Winter storm

Its a winter wonderland here in Kentucky. We received about 3 inch's of snow last night. All day today we have had sleet and freezing rain. Its supposed to turn to more snow tonight. I hope the power stayes on, 28 degrees right now.

The Garden is all iced over, kind of pretty. The shed is getting some nice sized icicles forming. I am ready for spring.

Small farming

Wow that looks good. Here is a pic from a blog I follow. Great site, http://tinyfarmblog.com/

They are in Canada and put out this kind of beautiful produce.

I'm sitting here in my winter boredom thinking of things to do next year in the garden. I'm looking into starting up a little co-op this season. Maybe setting up 10 or so people on a every other week vegetable delivery schedule. Something like a old school milk man, but you get fresh vegetables.

More to come on this, I still have to work out my business plan. All I know is, if you could could get baskets full of veggies like this picture I would have all kinds of customers.

Experimental Seed Starting

Well, its way to early to be starting seeds, but we have several flats of experiments started. The first pic is our trial of saved seeds. From front to back you have: 6 cilantro's ( 2 out of 6 have sprouted), 6 Marigolds (5 out of 6 sprouted), and 6 Black Eyed Susan's (4 out of 6 sprouted). Not to bad of a success rate. The second pic is baby onions coming up from seed. We are trying to raise onions for the first time, so this is promising. They are only 6 days since planting here.

Bird Houses

Well its cold as hell in Kentucky these days, so I have been working on some new bird houses. Pretty cool plan I found, based around a coffee can surronded by wood. I made four, now looking at building some bat box's.

Well, we couldnt set up the seed starting room without starting some plants. We saved some seeds from last years Marigolds and Black Eyed Susans. We were wondering if the would sprout. Good news so far, 5 days in and we have growth.

We saved several thousand seed from last year, so there should be flowers everywhere this year.

I think we are going to go crazy this weekend. We are going to start early plants for everything. See how big we can grow tomatoes and other plants under grow lights. We dont have anything else to do, damm its 8 degrees outside...

Me and Ricky got the new seed starting room set up this past weekend. We moved from my spare bed room to the basement. We have two 4 ft tables set up and a work table. We have already talked about adding on levels. Shit could get out of control with our winter boredom......

Its been way to long since my last post. There hasn't been much going on in the garden the last couple of months. We have just been prepping the ground and planning for the new years crops..

The first shipment of seeds showed up the other day, here is a pic of what came in.

Much more to come, we are trying a bunch of new plants this year!!!!