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I am so thrilled! I went out yesterday to check n the plants and found this beauty!</div>
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It bloomed! I didn't think that it would but it did. It also has another bud on it as do several other of my nasturtiums,</div>
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I bought some seeds that had a lot of different colors and didn't know what to expect. This is beautiful. </div>
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I know, I'm getting a bit too happy about bloom. Well, no, I LOVE to see GOD's creation in action and am so thankful HE lets me be a part of it!</div>
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Here is the Basil before I added AnnaBelle's Manure tea to it.</div>
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Here is the after photo! What a difference! I noticed that within a week the basil was shooting up and the leaves were getting to a dark green color. A HUGE improvement.</div>
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Basil beside the tomatoes in my herb garden. I have 3 and hubby has 7. </div>
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We're having a contest to see who has the biggest and most flavorful tomato. I read that planting Basil next to your tomatoes was a good bug deterrent as well as a flavor enhancer. The Basil is said to make the tomatoes sweeter. We'll see!</div>
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Another view of my herb garden. I think I should have planted the spearmint in another spot. It is sending runners out everywhere. I also added the tea manure to the others herbs. They are really starting to take off!</div>
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We are growing Silver Queen sweet corn. It has started to tassel and is taller than me. I'm 5'3 so that says a lot. ;-)</div>
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Hubby's tomatoes. My marigolds. We decided to plant the marigolds around the tomatoes as a bug deterrent. It seemed to be working but I noticed those UGLY Horn worms on the plants yesterday. I NEED an organic horn worm deterrent. Any ideas?</div>
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Another view of the corn, tomatoes, taters, green beans and on the side are the blackberries bushes that are overflowing! What a blessin'!</div>
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Hubby used some old fencing to make cages for the tomato plants. It has worked out really well. Hubby is always getting junk that others throw away. He is good at recycling and reusing. This homestead runs quite well on reusable stuff. ;-)</div>
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Blackberries are starting to get ripe. Now I gotta keep the chickens from them.</div>
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Summer Squash! Oh, how YUMMY! We ate some last night and it was SO good! I've been looking forward to homegrown squash since the end of last summer.</div>
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A HUGE thank you to Mr. Bumble Bee for all the hard work he does in pollenating my veggies and fruits. GOD's creation is SO amazing! GOD is SO amazing!</div>
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Also wanted to share with you a book that is a great resource for homesteading. It deals with just about anything you could think of. A great resource!</div>
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How grows your garden?</div>
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We have had several apple trees on our little homestead for about 15 years now. I would say its been a total of 6 all together but not all of them have lived. So we are down to 2 now. The oldest one is about 15 years old. The other about 5 years old. </div>
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The oldest one has been producing apples faithfully (not fully though) for the past 10 years. This year it looked to be an amazing crop. That's right, I said that in the past tense. After blooming and making a lot of apples we ended up having to prune it back due to disease. Fire Blight is the name of the disease. </div>
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The same pruning had to be done for the younger tree. It didn't have as many apples but it would have been more than the previous year being a younger tree. It was just starting to get full and beautiful. It's sad to look at it now.</div>
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Here is the younger tree before it was pruned.</div>
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After the pruning. It makes me want to cry. It was so beautiful!</div>
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This is what Fire Blight looks like on an apple tree. The leaves start to brown and die. Looking like someone took a fire to it. Hence the name- Fire Blight.</div>
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All affected areas had to be cut off to avoid more spreading of the disease. This little tree had it bad.</div>
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We could have prevented this by paying more attention to our trees. I noticed it after it bloomed but I thought it was just a bad spot or two. When it started getting on the older tree we knew we had a problem.</div>
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We researched the potential problem online. It coincided with what the Ag. man said at the County Extension office. Fire Blight.</div>
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We were told to prune off all affected parts of the tree and then burn the limbs. The man also told us to sterilize all tools that touched the affected limbs. Fire Blight is that bad and contagious. He also told us that it could end up affecting all vegetation in our yard. (I sure pray not.)</div>
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(The disease just seems to prefer apple trees as well as other fruit trees.)</div>
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Here are some of the apples that we had to cut off the bigger tree. Makes me sick.</div>
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(A pile of apples from the bigger tree from the diseased limbs.)</div>
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Risen and ready to put into an oven that has been preheated to 350* for about 15-20 minutes. Or lightly browned.</div>
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YUMMY! Hamburgers made with grass fed Farmers Market Beef and home made buns.</div>
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This is the earliest storm of the season that I can remember. Am I prepared? Sort of? All I can say is thank you LORD that it is ONLY a tropical storm and not a hurricane. It has just made me realize that I need to get on the ball with the season starting so early.</div>
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So what are the plans today? What do we expect to come at us? Have I done ANYTHING before to prepare for the (now upon us) hurricane season?</div>
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CONCERN #1 -WATER!</div>
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I have been buying drinking water for the past 3 weeks. NOT enough!</div>
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CONCERN # 2- WATER!- for the animals. Especially AnnaBelle (the cow.)</div>
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Hubby and I were talking about cleaning out the large tanks we have outside that can store about 300 gallons of water. He got them at work when they were going to throw them out. So today we will be cleaning and sterilizing them. Then filling them up with water.</div>
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Now the cow goes through 50 gallons of water a day. With the 2 tanks we will have water for her to last about 5-6 days. That would be a start for having water for her if the power goes out and we can't just get the water from the house.</div>
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Concern # 3- Food</div>
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We have enough to last us a week. We have a propane cooker outside to cook if necessary.</div>
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Concern # 4- Batteries- Need some NEED ALOT! Can you tell I am out? (Shameful!)</div>
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I am making sure that everything is caught up in the laundry department. I am almost caught up today. But with the outer bands of rain from Ana coming in, I can't dry my clothes outside and guess what? My dryer is broke. UGH! </div>
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My daughter @ <a href="http://shycountrygal.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://shycountrygal.blogspot.com/</a> and I went to a local farmers market today. She has been looking for grass fed beef at a reasonable price for quite some time and finally found it at the farmers market.</div>
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I can't believe these *girls* are 6 weeks old already! They are turning into beautiful birds.</div>
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We got them moved into their new home the other day. They were growing way too fast to be kept in the other pen.</div>
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This was the home of our *Luke* the rooster from 2 years ago. We had to put him in another pen because when he is out with the older hens, he hurts them. He killed one about a month ago. I wanted to put him on Craig's list but Hubby gave him a pardon, So now he is in the old pig pen. Plenty of space for the ornery old bird.</div>
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Hubby mulched the herb garden for me. I also planted some Nasturtiums. They don't seem to coming up. Hubby also planted 6 pepper plants in the herb garden. I am hoping to make some salsa this summer for the first time. Praying the tomatoes and peppers do good.</div>
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I have been wanting to do this for a long time. I finally got to it today. My herb plants are not looking as good as they should. I usually put the store bought *Miracle Grow* on them to liven them up. NOT this year! Today I am going to use what THE GOOD LORD has given me in HIS creation. It is cheap and VERY plentiful around here. It's AnnaBelle's manure.</div>
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I just filled an old pillowcase with dried manure and some not so dry. I then placed it in an old storage container and added water to it. (I tied off the pillow case so it would not fall in.) Now it has to *seep* for a few days in the HOT sun. The result will be an organic fertilizer that I can pour on my herbs or anything else I want to grow.</div>
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I finally got around to making my strawberry jam this past weekend. I ended up with 20 jars. I aim to get 40 more before the season is up.</div>
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Got some sour dough bread made today. I also made some homemade hamburger buns last week for the first time. It was an easy recipe and everyone loved them. </div>
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Here she is looking to see if she had laid the egg yet. She hadn't. When I closed the door and opened it up again, she was squatting and laid the egg. I tried to get it on the camera to no avail.</div>
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So Sweet! AnnaBelle the sleepy cow. It is so precious to see a cow tuck their heads in that way ,when they are napping.</div>
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Ever hear that saying, "A woman's work is NEVER done?" That phrase hits the nail on the head today. I am just now getting to blog after a busy day working inside and outside. It was an absolute beautiful day to be outside though. So no complaints there.</div>
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I mentioned earlier about getting new chicks. They are 3 weeks old tomorrow. We have them outside in a wooden crate/box with a heating lamp that is used at night. Well, I went outside this morning to feed/water them and noticed that the wood I have on top of the crate to secure it was knocked half way off. I immediately got nervous.</div>
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I proceeded to go over and take the tarp/ wood off and noticed that the crate had been *chewed* off a bit and that the chicken wire that is on top was lifted up a bit. That part was really odd because the chicken wire was stapled to the crate.<br />
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I asked myself, "What in the world tried to get into my biddies home last night?" I then fed/ watered them and went in to call Hubby @ work to let him know what had happened. He is pretty sure that it was a opossum. Really?</div>
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So today to deter the opossum we moved the box to another area. One nearer our penned dogs. Hopefully the dogs would sound the alarm if they saw it going after the biddies. Hubby is also going to hang a light on them from the outside. He says the opossum may not get near the biddies with a light shining in the area. </div>
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Happy Tuesday! Well I finally got the herb garden in yesterday.</div>
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I wasn't sure that I would have the energy but just getting out there and playing on the dirt revived me.</div>
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Everything planted is a perennial except the Basil. Hoping to get seed from the Basil this year to actually grow it myself next year.</div>
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I finally got some new clothes line for the line outside. I haven't hung any clothes out since last year. Can't really say why other than the old line was ,well ,old and hung too low to be used. I'll just say it, I got lazy.</div>
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Grace and I went to a local U-Pick farm and picked these 2 luscious bucketful's of fresh strawberries. We have been picking strawberries from this farm since my now 21 year old daughter was 8 years old. Such a blessin' to still having her go with me to pick them. Actually she was the one who mentioned it before I did.</div>
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The price went up this year to $1.75lb. to pick yourself. That's not too bad. I can remember when they were only a $1 to pick and that was when Grace was 8 years old.</div>
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We do have strawberry plants ourselves. They are just starting to get blossoms on them. Can't wait to get into those too.</div>
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I am going to have to go back next week and pick a lot more. I want to make some strawberry jam this year. I haven't made any in quite a few years. Praying my energy stays up.</div>
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It's been awhile since I have blogged here. Things on the homestead are pretty much the same but as it is spring time there are a few new things to report.</div>
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The *girls* are starting to lay again. Getting about 6 eggs a day.</div>
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These are the only 2 hens we had out of the batch that were hatched out last July by a faithful broody hen. There were 9 in all. The others were roosters. We butchered 3 and gave the others away. On a sad note, the faithful broody hen was killed by one of our roosters 2 weeks ago. Not sure if we will get a *homegrown* batch of biddies this summer or not.</div>
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We sold *PIG* #4 this past winter. Everyone was burned out on BBQ. Not to mention that this little piggy was a sweetie! Never get attached to your food!</div>
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AnnaBelle being AnnaBelle. We dried her up in October. Hubby's hands are getting arthritic and he has carpal tunnel. That makes a bad combination when it comes to milking a cow. I've had several health issues to deal with as well. Will we breed her again? Probably so. Just taking a much needed break after 5 years of milking.( twice a day-EVERY day.)</div>
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We decided to get a new batch of chicks from the feed store. They *should* all be hens. 15 of them. The others are starting to hit and miss with egg laying. We do this every 2 years.. We would LOVE to have them all homegrown but like last year, 7 roosters and 2 hens. Not good math when you need eggs.</div>
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They were inside for the first week in an old storage box. They are now outside and thriving!</div>
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We have experimented again this year with keeping potatoes without canning them. We usually keep them under the house. That has worked well but they seem to get softer than I like which is normal. So this year instead of digging for them in July when they are ready to be dug, we left them in the ground. </div>
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We just dug for the taters as we needed them. They are still in the ground to this date. I went out and dug some the other day and found beautiful little taters just ready to be eaten. There were a few that were mushy but 98% were firm.</div>
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Now some of them started to seed again in August and that bought on a new batch with the old ones. Not sure when I did dig down, which one's I am getting. They are good though.</div>
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You can go here - <a href="http://aheartforhomesteadingtoo.blogspot.com/2012/12/keeping-potatoes-without-canning-them.html" target="_blank">http://aheartforhomesteadingtoo.blogspot.com/2012/12/keeping-potatoes-without-canning-them.html</a></div>
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Here is the final product from butchering the roosters yesterday.They were totally homegrown and raised from day one. We had a hen go broody (for the 2nd) year in a row this past summer. We ended up with 9 new chickens. One was killed at night by an unknown predator and then we ended up with 3 roosters and 5 hens. What you see above are the roosters. We didn't need anymore roosters so off to be butchered they went.</div>
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It's the one on the left. The other one is a store bought egg. Our chickens aren't laying much this winter ,which is normal due to a lack of sunlight. But since the days are getting longer, LORD willin', we will start getting more of these golden goodies.</div>
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Well, we finally butchered some chickens on the homestead. I had only previous helped one time before with a friend who was more than willing to show me the process. So taking the little knowledge I obtained and having an AWESOME son-in-law who needed to do his birds too, we commenced to butchering.</div>
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Justin with one of his birds. Getting ready to string it up to get its head off. He tried slicing it first to drain the blood but found it easier to just cut its head off. So I held onto the chicken (with a string on its legs) while he cut off the head.</div>
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<i>Wow! 3 posts in 2 days! I'm on a roll! Here are some pictures of the homestead. Everything is bloomed out and absolutely gorgeous! It's stormy here today but still a lovely day on the homestead. I know my garden is appreciating the rain ;-)</i></div>
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<i>This is Luke. He is the only rooster we kept from the August batch. He is such a sweety! His favorite place to hang out is up front of the house. I thought he looked real fine in front of our azalea bush that bloomed this year. He's not at all hateful as the other roosters we have had. What a blessin'!</i></div>
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<i>We added another pig to our little homestead this spring. This will be the 4th pig we have raised for meat. We butchered the last one this past November and we now have a freezer full of southern style BBQ (YUMMY!!)</i></div>
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<i>Anyway, this pig does not like to drink out of her water fountain. All the other pigs figured it out, this one prefers the traditional bowl. The problem is she is getting bigger and likes to *play* with it now. That means pulling it out of the holder and dumping it. ARRG!!!</i></div>
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<i>Here's what she did today when Noah and I tried to get her to use the fountain after having dumped the water over again for the umpteenth time.</i></div>
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<i>This is the fountain she should be using. Hubby said to put some peanut butter on it and she would lick it off and realize that the water was there.</i></div>
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She kept her head under that water a good time trying to get those bricks out. She would get them just so far and they would slip off her snout and back into the water. HA! We have you now pig!</div>
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<i>My youngest child turns 15 on Sunday. Where has the time gone? I so miss the little boy hugs and him climbing into my lap so I could read a book to him. He is growing into a fine young Christian man. He has a heart for GOD's creation and a bigger heart for his sisters.</i></div>
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<i>Happy 15th birthday Noah!</i></div>
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<i>The last few days have been absolutely gorgeous around here. Temps. in the upper 60's with a lot of golden sunshine. With the warmer weather I started noticing a bee or two at my back door. (I haven't seen honey bees around here in over 2 years!) So seeing these little beauties this morning all over my hummingbird feeder was such a blessing!</i></div>
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