Baby Goats and Yes, More Gardening

Published on: June 1, 2009December 30, 2015 by catballou24 7 Comments

The babies are 7 weeks old already and at that point where we are working on finding them new homes. The time went by fast, much like it does with my own kids. They are healthy, happy, sweet little boys and we’d love to keep them, but that wasn’t the plan. If we don’t stick […]

Garden Photos

Published on: May 29, 2009December 30, 2015 by catballou24 4 Comments

Bringing Some Of My Outside In

Published on: May 28, 2009December 30, 2015 by catballou24 2 Comments

Peace!

Squash Vine Borers

Published on: May 28, 2009 by catballou24 2 Comments

Yep, they’ve arrived…drats! I had to yank one of the pumpkins, but it hadn’t really produced anything so I wasn’t too heartbroken. Another vine has 2 little pumpkins that are ripening, then I’m pulling it. The other couple are okay for now. I have new seeds popping up and am planting radishes around these in […]

Chester

Published on: May 26, 2009December 30, 2015 by catballou24 2 Comments

Chester was born on April 20, 1994 in Eureka, California. My sister and I were sharing an apartment at the time with my son. She had been wanting us to get a kitten for quite awhile and finally she just did it. She had borrowed my car for a mystery errand and a few hours […]

Some Garden Pictures

Published on: May 25, 2009December 30, 2015 by catballou24 6 Comments

A few pictures of the garden. We lashed bamboo all day yesterday and built a sun shade structure for the veggies. Last year the Texas summer sun burnt everything up, so we are hoping to combat that a bit. Lots more mulch and a sun shade. We’ll see how it works out. We may need […]

Volunteer Pumpkins

Published on: May 20, 2009December 30, 2015 by catballou24 5 Comments

I didn’t plan on planting pumpkins this year. Every year that I have, my harvest was less than successful. Either not enough water, too much water, bad soil, no pollination, powdery mildew, borers, you name it it’s happened. So this year I noticed in our lasagna bed we’d been working on through the winter, little […]

Experiments In Organic Fertilizing

Published on: May 16, 2009 by catballou24 2 Comments

So as this gardening thing continues with me, I’m branching out of my comfort zones and actually am starting to feel like a real gardener. Not a master by any stretch of the word, but definitely more competent than a year ago. Two of my latest changes (and for all you true gardeners out there, […]

As Promised

Published on: May 12, 2009December 30, 2015 by catballou24 3 Comments

A few pics of the homestead greenery. Peace! A view of the front. Little veggie garden this year just behind the kitchen. It has squash, pumpkins, peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes.

So Long Since Posting

Published on: May 11, 2009 by catballou24 1 Comment

We had illness run through our household. The girls recovered very quickly, I however did not. I was sick for more than 2 weeks and just exhausted. It was more effort than I had energy for to even post anything. The garden started showing my neglect…the house..the laundry…you get the picture. It was enough for […]