This site is about my life as a farmgirl, wife, mother and grandmother. We have a beautiful granddaughter and the cutest grandson. We own two farms in Craig County Virginia, leasing one and raising beef cattle on the other.
What a garden shouldn’t look like
I love to work in the garden early in the morning or late in the evening after the sun has gone behind the mountain. Hubby does most of the gardening in the last three years and I’ve help do the harvesting and putting away for winter stores. This year doesn’t seem to be much of a gardening year. I noted in an earlier post that we had gotten unusual amounts of rain for our area and cooler temps and that we hadn’t been able to get our hay harvest complete. Well, we haven’t had much luck gardening either. This is what a garden is NOT supposed to look like.
Anybody see any beans in this mess? Weeds will grow with plenty of rain and no sunshine!Corn that should be four or five feet tall is barely a foot tall.Eggplant is beautiful but the weeds are starting to choke them out.Easy to find the mole beans!
Hubby decided it will be best to salvage the onions and potatoes. We started pulling onions because some are rotting in the ground. He pulled one row and I laid them out to dry and we’ll pray they dry good and keep over the winter.
This is the best onion crop we’ve had in a long time.These all came from one row in the garden and most of them are white onions.Most of them are nice 3-4 inch heads.The end of the row had a few red onions. The other row we haven’t pulled is yellow and red onions.
Hubby dug a two hills of potatoes to check on their growth and to make sure they weren’t rotting too. They’re much nicer than last years crop and they’re Yukon Gold potatoes.
New potatoes from the garden.
We’re not terribly concerned about our lack of a garden this year though we love to be fixing fresh vegies straight out of the garden but we have so much canned goods in the cellar from last year that is still so good. We definitely won’t go hungry this winter.
I am a wife, mother, and grandmother that lives on a farm in Craig County, Virginia and I am retired. I love to cook, read, quilt, craft, garden, hunt and take long walks in the woods. I have one gorgeous teen granddaughter, a wonderful little grandson and two beautiful and caring children, boy & girl.
I've been married to my farmer husband for 46 years and he's the "love of my life"!!
I love doing things the "old" way such as canning, making maple syrup & cider, handcrafts and baking. I've taught myself to crochet, embroider, and quilt with help from my paternal grandmother. I could read until the cows come home.
We live off the products we raise and hunt for the most part. We run 75 head of cattle on our farm, 30 chickens, three rabbits and one dog. I help my husband with the cattle, feeding the livestock, hauling in firewood, fence repair, and general maintenance on the farm.
I was a stay-at-home mom to my children and then went to work when they finished high school. I was a cook at a School for At-Risk Teens and part-time substitute teacher. Then I started work at our local Farm Bureau and stayed there for 17 years. I worked at Virginia Tech for almost five years and decided to take early retirement in July of 2015. NOW, I'm a full-time farmwife and loving every minute of it!
I love to read fiction and the Bible. I'm currently hooked on quilting novels and Annie's Attic mysteries.
I started this blog in 2011 and have met so many interesting bloggers and have kept up with my friends through my blog.
I love to hunt with my bow and rifle and with a camera. We hunt to fill the freezer and cellar but would never kill anything for the fun of it.
I have friends and family all over the United States. Some of my ancestry last names are Bradley, Dickson, Hylton, and Rose.
I've lost both of my parents to brain cancer and miss them very much. I have one sister and four living brothers. I was raised in Paint Bank VA and moved to New Castle VA when I married. I went to school in Waiteville, WV, Gap Mills, WV and New Castle Va with a short semester of college at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke VA.
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3 thoughts on “What a garden shouldn’t look like”
what a mess! I think I got 5 onions from my garden because the rest were mush!
This is the blog for our little farm in Skagit county. Here we have Shetland sheep and Nigerian Dwarf goats. In addition we have donkeys, cattle, pigs, chickens, geese, and peafowl. The blog describes the weekly activities here.
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what a mess! I think I got 5 onions from my garden because the rest were mush!
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We’re so afraid that’s going to happen to the potatoes and there’s more rain for the rest of the week! BUMMER!
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Fresh onions all winter… I am jealous 🙂
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