You know we plant our seeds, we tend to the young seedlings then we take that huge leap of faith by planting the young plants in the garden. Now, I admit… I make mistakes. Many times the failure of my plants is clearly my fault. This time I may still be at fault, but it will be because I’m providing beautiful habitat for legions of Pill Bugs!
Have you ever seen a chicken sun bathing? Have you seen them toss dust up under their feathers?
Chickens love to find a dry dusty area to roll around in. This is healthy for them. Birds are prone to parasites like lice and mites. Providing a nice place for them to dust bathe gives them a natural way to control the parasites. Continue reading How Can Wood Ash Help Chickens?
more hard freezes than we’ve had for a very long time.
It’s been so crazy I’m not sure when to put my seedlings in the garden. The last frost date for this year is something like March 20th. Gosh, That feels like it’ll be too late! Continue reading What’s Growing On in the Greenhouse? Starting the 2014 Gardening Season
Please join my GIVEAWAY, but first let me start this post by saying, Wow! we’ve had a lot go on! … and we’ve been covered by the grace of God and many people that share kindness and encouragement.
Two weeks ago, our son Espen went through brain surgery for a condition called Chiari.
You can read some detail at my wife’s blog: http://thriftyfarmerswife.blogspot.com/2014/02/chiari-has-stolen-his-smile.html
Also… follow the journey of the surgery and recovery here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Espens-Chiari-Journey/634744523245729
So now we are gladly moving past some of that stress. We all can recover from missed sleep and overwhelming stress.
This Giveaway is well underway, but there is still time to get in on it. Follow this video to the YouTube page to make a comment. Your comment will get you an entry into the drawing for the gardening book.
The special Thanks that I express in the video is to Ray over at the Praxxus55712 YouTube channel. Here is a link to his channel and facebook page.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Praxxus55712
https://www.facebook.com/praxxus55712
Ray is a gardener that shares his skills and talents with a very large audience on YouTube. I follow his channel and recently he started following mine. In one of his videos he listed his 6 favorite YouTube gardeners. I made the list! That was exciting, but what really got to me was how he spoke so kindly of me and my son, Luke.
Go check out Ray’s channel. You can find this particular video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umaepiye0F0&list=UU6YgvyGnc7HBvBEVAeDnsiw
Thank you so much for being with on my life’s journey! I appreciate every one of you 🙂
UPDATE: We have a WINNER!
