June Farm Status

The end of June brings a green garden, and some of it is grass! I have harvested peas and a very few green beans. The volunteer zucchini plant is the biggest thing in the garden. We also have volunteer watermelon, tomatoes and basil. We've been eating lettuce from the garden all month, and I need to get my second crop sown today. My teeny-tiny tomato plants have taken off, but most of my home sown pepper plants are still on the small size. Potatoes haven't done well at all - will replant for a fall crop in a different spot and hope for better results. I still have a lot of work to do on the flower beds, they aren't looking so hot, but I've done a better job this year weeding in the veggies.

Abby is busy with training Ceres (steer) and Roscoe. They are both going to the fair! Abs is very excited about the fair this year. She will have items displayed in the FFA building and she'll have to work shifts in there, and has entered the zucchini competition. Oops, can't forget the turkeys! The four remaining hens look good. I don't know how she'll every lift them up on that table for the judging! She had a blast with the church youth group at Cedar Point and rode her first big roller coaster. A tremendous feat for the "car sick" girl!

Dan just took in the two heifers to the processor. Abby was at Cedar Point, so one of our beef customers came out to help Dan load them. He grew up a country boy and when Dan showed him around the woods, Chris found Ginseng there. I had no clue it was there, but I'll have to find it and share! (it's expensive in the store, isn't it?)