A Small Homestead

Welcome to my blog about our adventures on and away from our modest family homestead. We are a young family trying to raise as much of our own food as possible and still enjoy life while holding down full time jobs and work two small home based businesses. Life can get hectic and challenging but at the end of the day we have most importantly each other, good food on our table and a roof over our heads.

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Garden Clean Up....

The wind and rain has taken a toll on my garden.  It's no longer the lush, green, beautiful garden I was so proud of this summer.....


The tomato trees fell over AGAIN and crushed my pepper plants.  We had to tie the tomato cages to keep them standing.  The soil is soft from all the rain so the cages can't hold the plants up.


The Scotia, Early Girl and Big Beef tomatoes are all over, the plants have died and are a mess.  Time to pull them out!


We gathered all the green tomatoes that fell off while we were standing the plants back up...


And, of course, the meat chickens got their share of the garden goodies.  We gathered a huge bucket of over ripe, damaged tomatoes for them....



I am so happy to see them outside enjoying the fresh air.  I am also happy the grass seed I scattered in the run grew quickly!  It's looking good.



We picked the squash.  Not a bad lot for a little garden....


And these tomatoes are going to be made into tomato sauce....that's the next post!


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