Today we harvested the
last little watermelon from our garden. Our watermelons were tiny,
but had a good sweet taste. I don't know the trick to growing large
watermelons like I see in the grocery store! I need to read up on
that before next summer's garden.
Travis and I also
walked our land trying to decide on a new garden spot. There are so
many large trees in our yard that it's hard to get enough sun on the
plants – and then the fact that most of our backyard is one
gigantic slope to the pond makes things a bit more difficult. We
LOVE our pond though. With a little boiling and/or Clorox, we will
have plenty of water to drink in an emergency situation; not to
mention my boys are excellent fisherman. We are also considering a
small chicken coop. I've raised chickens before and the fresh eggs
are amazing. My only issues were about 6 feet long with fangs and a
rattler. I gave up on my chicken before because the rattlesnakes
seemed to LOVE them. Something else to study on...how to keep snakes
out of my hens beds.
Lastly, I made my first
ever made from scratch brownies. They were so easy and so yummy, I
will never make store bought mixes again. Why have I waited till age
37 to do all this fun stuff? I've been missing out, and I have to
make up for lost time!!
Sorry, no cool photos
today. I could snap some of the watermelon rind or the scraped bare
brownie pan, but I'll spare ya!!
1 comment:
My dad grew the largest watermelons I've seen in my life last year! I don't know what his secret was - he'd swear it was the type or seed or something.
I've always wanted to raise chickens for the eggs. But I am not so sure about the snake issue. Scary!
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