Another Long Day On The Farm

It has been a really long day here at Exotic Gardening Farms and Wildlife Habitat. We got up early this morning. I went out to feed the animals and Jerry joined me shortly after. Beauty is finally getting used to being brushed while eating but still will not let me get her tail. I can brush her butt though so it is a matter of time.

Jerry thought he had the goat fence fixed today but lo and behold, Darla found a way out, so tomorrow we will fix that. They wanted to snack on the privet hedge we cut down and put in the corner of the bird garden for wildlife to hide in.

Lisa picked me up early this morning. We went with Jackie to dig some flowers. I brought home peonies, a yellow rose, hollyhock, narcissus and naked ladies as well as two bird feeders. When we finished at Jackie’s we went to Shirley’s. Shirley gave us spearmint, bee balm, dill and sedum. After that we met John and Donna who shared some flower essences with us and starts of Oriental poppies and bamboo. It was a fun day. When we arrived back here I gave Lisa some Jerasalem artichokes for her garden.

Jerry had prepared a raised bed for the spearmint and I got busy planting my new treasures. Jerry made two additional raised beds tonight – one for dill and one for chamomile. I have decided to make individual beds for each variety of herb so I can keep them seperated and have more of them. The herbs are being moved out of the herb garden into the vegetable garden and eventually the herb garden will be a second vegetable garden.

The corn and green beans are coming up as are a ton of potatoes. I think this is going to be a really good year for gardening. Tomorow we are going to take the old siding and what is left of the new siding to the back of the house. Jerry is going to fix the goat fence again and then I am hoping he will get a chance to work on the porch. I know he has been wanting too. I would like to work in the walnut garden a bit and the dog area. There is some mowing and weed wacking that needs to be done up there. I am still debating moving everything out of that area. We also have some privacy fence to put up.

Luckily Jerry’s vacation is next week so that will give us lots of time to catch up on projects that really need completed.

Sheri