Vicktory Farm and Gardens
This House is Crowded!
“Roll over.” “I was here first.” “Well this is where I always sleep.”When I got up this morning and stumbled into the kitchen where Dirt was making himself a sandwich. I heard the giggle of Anna’s doves. They came inside the night before only to go out briefly yesterday to fly in their aviary. The … Continue reading
A Little PNW Winter Farm Life
Well I guess it isn’t winter yet just late fall still. But it is pretty chilly, 24 degrees, and dark so I’m guessing no one is going to smack me for calling it winter. Last week I really scrambled to get some more fall work done outside before winter hit. Funny, no matter how hard … Continue reading
Uhh… Not Much Today Folks
Dear reader I hope all is going well for you as you head into the second week of Advent.I’m doing great. Terry and I got the whole “team blog” thing worked out for the Sheet Diet and we are on our way to a better consistency, or at least consistency, as we attempt to become … Continue reading
Second Sunday of Advent
This morning I woke up late, I don’t even remember hearing the radio program Dirt and I listen to on Sunday mornings. My head was pounding, I couldn’t move it and the dull rainy morning light felt like a ice pick in my head, so much for the drugs Dirt picked up for me to … Continue reading
Whew!
Man what a busy day today. I planted two thousand five hundred onion seeds today. Okay, so it really wasn’t that hard. I plant them in clumps of about twenty five seeds in 2×2 pots all connected and sitting in a solid flat.The soil mix is sterile combo of peat and perlite. I wet it … Continue reading
Having A Happy…
Thanksgiving Day proper was the best. I spent the day taking care of some two hundred seventy-five gladiola corms, my canna tubers, and my dahlia tubers, they all got separated, cleaned up and packed in sawdust. My begonias weren’t ready yet, still very damp and then I went to my pile of strawberry plants, … Continue reading
Yipee
Yipee, my computer’s key board issue is not fixed and it only took from what, about seven-thirtyish till now, after one, to find out that it was all a waste of time, hanging around my computer making sure it didn’t need me and then telling it things occasionally to finish ‘er up. Yes, I said … Continue reading
Arbor Bed, The Promise of Renewal
Remember this over crowded, buttercup filled perennial bed? And my buried garden bench? And Dirt’s buried fence? Wa – la Everything is out and now it is time to put on the alfalfa pellets, this is my rate of application, about ten pounds for the approximately three hundred square feet that I have ready here, … Continue reading
Spagetti Sauce, Artichoke Dip, Leg of Lamb
None would be the same without garlic. Vicktory Farm and Gardens’ Kitchen uses garlic everyday and nearly every meal, we haven’t tried it in oatmeal yet, but give us some time and we most likely will. Garlic planting happened a week or so ago and was really supposed to happen in October but all will … Continue reading
Disappointment of Sorts
I thought I had a great idea the other day, thought it was Holy Spirit guided (which it may still be just not in the direction I thought). But when I told Dirt about it, to see what he thought, to get his approval, he reeled me in. He squashed it like a slug. My … Continue reading
