Gardening

I know it's been a long since I last posted. We've been so incredibly busy I've barely had time to sit down to think, let alone write about what I'm thinking.

That said, we got the garden in- corn, beans, tomatoes, peppers, squash of all types, onions (green and white), flowers in the "kids garden", carrots, etc. We've yet to plant any of the vines...just haven't had time and I was waiting on a big pile of waste hay and manure to be moved. (hich has been now that a friend let us borrow a bobcat (see right side of photo).

The garden is in a great location. It gets morning and mid-day sun and when the sun is at the peak of scorching, it'll get late afternoon and evening shade from trees on the west side.

I can now plant some pumpkins, watermelon, melons, cukes and potatoes. We're watering right now by a  sprinkler  with two 100' hoses stretched from the main barn, through the bucks pen and into the garden. The garden is in the area the goats used to be able to graze in/on but we've moved the pen fence north by about 100' so we've got a great big area for gardening. For now, it'll get watered with the hose but when we get time (HA HA HA HA!), we'll be trenching for water lines out to the new pastures we fenced, to the bucks pen (I currently bucket water to them which sounds like a big pain in the rear but it's not really that bad, but a spigot would be nice for sure!), and then to the garden and orchard.

Since there isn't any water to the orchard now, we cannot plant trees this year. We have enough last minute projects keeping us crazy and to add fruit trees to the line up would just be asking for trouble. Eventually we'd like to put in a windmill and new well to water the garden. For 1st water we wouldn't have to go very deep (20-30' or so because the water table's somewhat high and we've got an underground stream running right through the property to the pond.) First water would be suitable for irrigation...plans for "some day"