Homesteading

Farming, canning, chickens, preserving - little house style

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Day 23

Many green things and some primary leaves starting. Also planted 6 cells of black krim. An heirloom eating tomato

Monday, February 17, 2014

joong

Working on setting up to make joong...found a couple of links that makes me think of Por Por. The links are here and here

Monday, February 10, 2014

Seeing green

Added light yesterday and fan last night. Seeing green today. Day 7

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

springtime already? Day 1

started the tomato seeds today.  Planted 7 varieties - who knows what will happen this year.  We decided with our dissapointment in other crops and a drought, we would just focus on tomatoes this year.  Ordered a bunch (too many) of varieties 

Planted:
isis candy - 
chocolate
pineapple heirloom
super marazanos
tiger striped

I planted 2-3 seeds in each cell - and planted 3 cells of each except the super san marazanos - planted 6 cells

put them in the grow box with the heat mat.  Will add light above once they germinate and put the light on for 12-14 hours...hopefully we will see

egg count

they started up again in December with 17 eggs and another 7 in January.  Crazy chickens!! Started laying again on December 13th from a 8 week hiatus.