Today’s weather was rough – at one point the rain gauge recorded a rate of 4.3″ of rain an hour – thankfully it didn’t rain for an hour. We did get a wallop of another 3/4″ of rain. So the tomatoes are swimming again. Tonight we will be standing the peas back up, fixing various [...]
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Since earlier this week (you know that if you follow on Twitter) we have had the 2009 flock of birds moved out to pasture. We wanted to get them out last weekend but the torrential rains (which very likely have claimed several San Marzano tomato plants by drowning the roots) kept the chickens in the [...] The major milestone (and midway marker) for the chickens is the departure from the brooder and placement in the pasture. While we would have loved to have gotten them out first thing Saturday – the torrential rainstorms of the day (over 2″ of rain) prevented that. And the pooling from all the rain last week [...] |
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