Beauty Farming Life

OK, not in THAT bed, but in one of the raised garden beds.  It's amazing how, from last week to this week, this happened: Ants in a raised garden bed This isn't freshly turned soil.  Well, actually I guess "technically" it is, but it's freshly turned by fire ants!  Ugh.  I need to plant in this bed soon and I don't want to put anything toxic in there.  I have used vinegar before on regular mounds in the yard, but when I do that, I'm not worried about how the vinegar might affect the grass.  However, I am  concerned about how it might affect the garden soil I will be planting vegetables in. Does anyone have any suggestion for a garden safe remedy?

OK, not in THAT bed, but in one of the raised garden beds.  It's amazing how, from last week to this week, this happened: Ants in a raised garden bed This isn't freshly turned soil.  Well, actually I guess "technically" it is, but it's freshly turned by fire ants!  Ugh.  I need to plant in this bed soon and I don't want to put anything toxic in there.  I have used vinegar before on regular mounds in the yard, but when I do that, I'm not worried about how the vinegar might affect the grass.  However, I am  concerned about how it might affect the garden soil I will be planting vegetables in. Does anyone have any suggestion for a garden safe remedy?

SO...I woke up Saturday to a great breakfast but had the beginnings of a headache.  But things needed to be done.  So I drove to the farm.  Got there and saw the neighbors goat...I thought it was on the other side of the fence until I saw the pear tree bend over as it ate off one of the lower branches!  BAD GOAT!!!!!!!!!!! I ran over there when I realized it and chased it back, it ran back through the gap in the barbed wire fence and started grazing like it had never left.  J from 2nd Family said they got out in the road the other day so she called the sheriff who came and got them back in and warned the owner. Barbed wire fence The picture above shows the gap where the old wiring was bent down.  It's a quarter of a mile (or more?) long if we wanted to have it all replaced.  The neighbor is not inclined to do that and so we'd have to pay for all of it.  Not going to do that, right now anyway.  So I got R from 2nd Fami...

Every Monday,  Daphne's Dandelions  hosts "Harvest Monday" where bloggers can post their harvests (click her link above to see what others are harvesting). We're hoping that each weekend now, for a while anyway, will provide us with something to post about each Monday. Behold! Garden Harvest It's our first ever harvest! (don't laugh) Almost missed the two tomatillos as they were hidden up under the bush.  I was worried because there are so many blooms but no actual tomatillos that I saw.  Then I spotted these two.  As you can see, I think they were a bit late in being harvested, because they outgrew their husks. The large tomato is a Homestead 24.  There was another larger one but it had been half eaten by something.  Since it was eaten from the top, I'm guessing a bird was the culprit.  Dang it! The cherry tomatoes were so good.  I say were because they didn't last long after this photo was taken.  ...