November in my Greenhouse

Welcome to my garden in my greenhouse.  Where the snow may blow but the garden continues to grow. 

 

A simple path down the lane brings you to the vegetable section.

Where you fill your basket with fresh ripe vegetables.  

Eggplant and Jalapeno

  

My thoughts are planted and watered with dreams.

With love as nourishment they grow.

  

Tomatoes in many sizes and shapes.

   

    

Oh the colors that can still be found inside.

    

Palms started from seeds. 

Sweet peppers and hot peppers for every palate.

  

Hope you enjoyed seeing what’s growing in my greenhouse.

Now just a quick look at the change in my dining window view from one season to the next.  Yes that is a chicken.  When the outside gardens are finished I let the chickens run everywhere for awhile to glean all the beds and leave some droppings.

           Summer  verses an early fall snow it did go bare again a bit.

Summers End with Camping

The colors and beauty of a perfect late summer get away.  Time was finally found at the end of September to get away for a few days camping and fishing.  We were blessed with the most amazing weather.  Everyone on the trip kept saying no day could have been more perfect and then the next was even better.  So I share a small glimpse of our perfect days camping at a Summers end..

The fall colors were just starting to come out.

The sparkles on the lake were glittering most of the time. 

 

Relaxing was the mode of the day except when chasing this dragon fly.

         

Our friends came back empty handed from fishing.

My hubby managed to be luckier.

One could easily sit on the dock and stare out at this view all day.  One could feel the energy being drawn into the V of the valley and spreading across the surface of the water.

We went one day with ATV's and explored nearby lakes and trails.  Always hungry at the end of the day a hearty meal was prepared.

       

We were all camped on the waters edge at this forestry campsite  that is free and no one was there most days.

  

My mind was an Island forever surround by water I could just sit and gaze feeling the liquid emotions brushing up against me.  Isolated from the worries of the rest of the world, but never forgotten as I could not float or drift while anchored to this earth by Gods will.

 

Leaving  our oasis of water we were blessed with a vision of the open country side on our way home.

 

Well that certainly brings an end to Summer here as the weather made a complete change after a few days of returning from our perfect weather campout.  We have already had snow sputters mixed in some rain and a hard killer frost, which is causing me to panic as I always do this time of the year trying to get work done in the garden and everything put away outside before the ground freezes.

Watching My Organic Garden Grow

The month of September is a time that is all about enjoying the fruits of Summers labor.  Here I would like to share with you the before and after photos of the changes in my garden.  I buy no plants or starts.  Everything I grow is from seed.  Many are started in the Greenhouse.

June on the deck is very bare looking but by August the flowers are blooming.

              

I also mix some flowers and vegetables in containers on the deck.

                 

Finally a look at the Garden

                                           

Due to my cooler nights my garden is very slow growing.  I use companion planting and can have one vegetable found all over the entire garden.  I love the effect and naturalness of mixing it all up and flowers here and there.

                 

Here is a corner part of the Garden where 2 previous beds had been combined into one.   Most my beds are raised 4 foot wide.

                     

Aside from the soil that has only organic matter added to it,  we keep a drum of manure tea always near by for extra boosts during the summer.  After harvesting potatoes the chicks get a special treat of exposed worms.

             

Now lets look at the progress in the Greenhouse.

Late April I start seeds in the Greenhouse.  June tender plants remain till after frost.

                     

        

I hope you enjoyed the growth in my garden and greenhouse.

With organic gardening it is a labor of love
Love of the earth, love of our bodies
and
Love of the natural beauty God gave us.

A Fencing We Will Go

A fencing we will go, a fencing we will go, Hi Ho the dairy Oh

A fencing we will go……

Well many of you have heard me make reference to being busy often with fencing this past summer.

So here are the results…

Most of the work had to be done with a hand post pounder as we were on hills and through the woods.  Here we had to install a gate along with the new fencing.

   

Often the ground was so hard a hole had to be broken open before even pounding a post in.

    

With only about 7 posts left to hand pound I had an injury and hubby had to do the work himself.  Pounding post. 
                 Rails and barbwire finished.                               

    

    In the flat area we were able to use the pounder attached to the tractor.  This area we used all rails as we plan a corral.

     

We thought we were done at this point with installing the new fencing, but soon realized the old fencing in our big field needed repairs and replacing.   So our job site moved down to the big field.

All posts and corners here had to be replaced
as they were so loose.

   

We had lost much of our fencing over the years at this point where it crosses the creek.  Between flooding and beaver dams the level changes constantly taking out much of the bank and eventually about 20 feet of our fencing.   Now new secure fencing crosses the creek.  The sticks in between the wires are called stays.  I had to replace all broken ones thru-out the whole big field.  Each strand of wire had to be secured to the stay with tire wire.  This ensures the cow can’t pull the wire apart and slip though.  The wrists get very sore after awhile twisting the wires for hundreds of stays.  Pounding posts sometime required some special engineering.  We both actually had to stand in the tractor bucket to pound this one.

   

This area a few years ago was under 3 feet of water and had done a lot of damage to the fence posts and stays, so all had to be replaced.    This was just this past week and it was very hot again.  But pleasant working near the creek.

    

Its so nice to have this all behind us now and get on with other projects.   We had some delay this summer as hubby cracked some ribs back in late June and was out of work commission for 4 weeks.  But since he has been able to work again we also mixed and pour concrete for footings for a carport.   Now have to get the saw mill going to cut lumber for the carport.  We also replaced 2 big picture windows in the house.  Harvesting of different things have been keeping me busy in between helping with all the other work.  We had a few light frosts but now have hot days and warm night.  I will be busy all of September with gardening, canning, freezing and drying stuff from the garden.   I will be dedicating the month of September to gardening blogs as there is much to be shared that has already taken place and just haven’t had time to blog about.

There is a feeling of change in the air even though we will continue to get hot days for a few weeks yet.  However our nights should be getting below freezing soon when the skies are clear.