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Garden Update Four Oaks, North Carolina
Spring is truely here!The plants are growing like weeds! Basil in the aquaponics beds. Garlic and collards Cabernet grapes(we lost one this winter) Sunflowers in front of the porch Bush beans The firs...
Companion Planting
My Blog Friend, The Back Forty, always has great informtion to share. Yesterday her post was about companion gardening. Very interesting. I had thought about plants and what should go together or n...
Gardening on the Homestead... Spring
Winter is finally heading north.... still some cold nights, but, as always, we are anxious to get the spring planting underway.Spring seed starts. Marigolds are peeking out. Garlic, planted in Novemb...
Chicks Week 1
Well---Here we are!Happy Birthday Chicks!We have had the little peepers home for 1 week now.All nine are still active and healthy!Sugar is very protective when we go out on our daily "walk". The New H...
Homestead Chicks--Day 5
Well.... It is chick day five at the homestead! My sweetie says he should have gotten me baby chicks along time ago.... I am so easily amused! Sugar--keeping an eye on her babies! My... how they ...
Aquaponics Update
System is cycling well. We had to go from one syphon drain to individual syphons on all grow beds....
The Cycling has begun!
The "Greenhouse"Operation "Aquaponics" Start up Overview4 growing beds1 fish tank 1 pumpconnected overflow w/separate drainsiphon drain system pump runs at about 2 gpm to fill the 4 grow beds when th...