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Breaking News: Verticillium Wilt Spotted!

This is not a good thing to be reporting – more to come later… but… it looks like all my 1 gallon pots of tomatoes are infected with Verticillium Wilt – a nasty fungus that has me cursing… preparing the body bags – and using it as a real excuse to go out [...]

Building a Barn Leanto – Part 4

This last weekend, despite the bad weather, VERY cold temperatures (sounds like mid-May huh?) and high winds (ask me how many times the ladders blew over)  we made some decent progress on the leanto (it was so cold we actually kept a fire going in the barn all day long!).  With the help of my dad [...]

The Blog Is Back

Just got an email from my hosting provider – for those of you that emailed me thanks – the blog is now back… apparently the server I lived on was a target of a denial of service attack… and – since my service was denied… it appears to have been successful.
No fear – [...]

Little Wheels that Could

With all the workings going on around the farm – one of the things that still needs to get taken care of is mowing the grass.  The only consideration is – do you really want to keep that 60″ deck on the tractor when you are trying to get over piles of dirt and rock as [...]