Planting potatoes

Planting Potatoes

Planting potatoes this year is has brought wonderful excitement.
For the past couple of weeks I have been working hard getting a new
bed ready for planting potatoes. This will be my first year of having a real
potatao crop. In the past I have grown potatoes in small quanties.
My new bed will be 20 ft by 40 ft. I am very excited about this as I love
to grow things myself.

In scripture my heavenly Father talks about using your hands.

1 Thessalonians 4:11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life:

You should mind your own business and work with your hands

This will be the year we will store our own potatoes.

Habakuk 3:19 The Soverign Lord is my strength; he makes
my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights.

There are many types of potatoes to grow. When you buy from the grocery
store you will only see a few types. There are so many more varieties to choose from.
We choose German Butterball, Yukon Gold, Fingerlings potatoes to grow.

The nice thing about planting your own is you know what is on them.

Happy planting!

Spring Has Arrived

How do we spend our time?

A pioneer woman in the spring would be getting a spring planting in. This would give her family nourishing food after the long winter. The gloomy months of winter would be a time of rest. Planning her garden would take a good deal of time. Getting the garden ready as soon as the soil is workable. Sometimes this can be done as early as mid to late Febraury. Seeds can go into the ground as early as the beginning of March in New Jersey.

Everything has a season!

We can learn from this woman, her hands were not idle. Up early, getting breakfast

ready for her family. Planning the rest of her day.

Planning meals took a good amount of time.

Just imagine how hard it was for the Pioneer woman.

Can I do what she did in her time?

That depends on my question.

How do we spend our time?

She had no choice of food. Her carefull attention of what was in her

pantry was so very important. She planned her meals by what

she had, sometimes it was not much.

What's in your pantry?

Can you fix all the food that's in your pantry for all the food your

family will need?

Can you grow the food you will eat?

Today I will ask God to give me the strength to provide food for

my family.

Show me how I have the time to grow a garden full of vegetables.

I pray for the wisdom to carry out this task of raising nourishing food.

The European Starling

Hello everyone Rachel again. We have some Starlings in two of our bird houses. one is red, the other is just plain ply wood. as you can see, starlings are really nice looking, but if you've ever had them in a tree in your backyard, you can know what a din they can make.Also, starlings will stand in groups on the little grass things on the side of the road walking with a jerky movement.

They do that because they are looking for bugs in the ground. I hope you found this both interesting and helpful.Rachel

Lettuce

Lettuce

Growing lettuce is one of the first items I begin to grow in the early spring. There are so many varieties on the market today. If you like the mixes you buy in the grocery store consider a Mesculan mix. It is one of the easiest to grow and it is not hard to germinate.

After the seedling begin to look like a real plant it is time to move them. You can use

plastic containers, peat pot containers or any small container.

I try not to pick anything to big, since you will fill it up with your soil. After, you

transfer you seedlings make sure and give them a week does of fish emulsion.

It is also vital that you water from the bottom. Just fill a tray of any sort with

your fish emulsion liquid and

then put plant containers an to soak up the liquid.

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In a few weeks you seedlings will begin to look like lettuce.

Just imagine the tasty salads you will be making.

Your salads will be full of flavor.