The joy of collecting your own eggs...

is priceless...

Garden

Last week end Mike tilled 3-4 additional rows, and now we have planted daikon, cherry belle radish, lettuce and cabbage! =) daikon and radish are already popping up! =)

-Charini

New addition to the farm!

Just this morning we bought 6 guineas (5 pearl and one white), a white silkie (I LOVE SILKIES), a laying bantam chicken and a black tiny little chick (I'm not sure what breed she is, I'm assuming Bantam cz she's so tiny!).
So yeah, we're very excited to see how they get along... =D

-Charini

Fall Garden

We have already planted onions (white and yellow), and they have sprouted a little. This week end, our plan is to plant some radishes, daikon and cabbage. Already have some unstable carrot, kohlrabi and beets, so if I can convince Mike that they are stable, and will produce once we start watering daily, then we can have all of those already germinated! =)
Most exciting news is that we got 3 chickens! They will start laying soon. So many new additions to the farm, our family is getting bigger and bigger!

Good News!

We are now officially home owners!!! Very excited!
We've already put out a garden and a humming bird feeder. Will post pictures soon.
-Charini

Update

I decided to add in a few pictures of the garden. Hopefully I can put in a few comments to those. =) Enjoy.

This is an eggplant plant in a 3gal container. We added blood and bone meal earlier in the year, so its gotten a lot bigger and has a lot of blooms AND eggplant!

Pretty blue flowers. 

I found this plant dying today, I have been keeping up with the watering, so I have no idea what is going on... It even had little buds in it. =(

You can see the potatoes forming!!!! We harvested some earlier, they were delicious!!!!!! Best potatoes I've ever had!

Cherry tomatoes. One branch broke off, and Mike put it back in the soil, and the little tomatoes in the vine are still getting red even though the stem is dead....

Bougainvillea plant. You can only see 2 blooms here, but this morning I saw a lot of little ones on the side that gets sun. Isn't that amazing?  

Lettuce. The picture looks pretty cool!

Under a green bean plant. You can see little beans forming. We already harvested a bunch and they were delicious! 

Mike watering his precious Okra. =)

Beet roots!

Cayenne peppers. They grow by the day!

Tomato bunches hiding in the bushes. 

This is officially going to be my wallpaper for a while. Isn't it beautiful?!

Once again, he's watering the Okra. Makes you wonder about the other plants!?

Look at the eggplant! Its getting bigger!!

Beautiful flowers...

Little tomato

My precious water spinach. It is loving the weather. I'v already harvested it once. They were really really good. Mmmmm.....

Lilies...

Green Beans ready to harvest.

Okra Flower.

First green beans harvest. 3 plants. 

Banana peppers!!!!!!! 

Another Okra flower.

Same one as before.

Mike finally watering something else! He might also be looking for bugs. 

Okra bed. We love it.

Okra bed again.

___________

Charini

Carcass disposal in Arkansas

This site gives a lot of helpful information.
http://alpc.arkansas.gov/regulations/Pages/default.aspx

Lavender and Garlic

It looks like we will be planting lots and lots of Lavender and Garlic!! =)

The new house will have deer and tick problems, so this would be a cheap way of getting rid of them.

Deer repellent plants

1. Rosemary (Perennial)

2. Lavender (Perennial)

3. Yarrow (Perennial)

4. Russian Sage (Perennial)

5. Garlic

Plants that repel ticks.

• Lavender.
• Garlic.
• Pennyroyal.
• Pyrethrum (type of chrysanthemum)
• Sage.
• Beautyberry.
• Eucalyptus.
• Mint.

Poison Ivy/Oak

This is Virginia Creeper. NOT poison ivy. Although there are some reported cases of rashes from these as well.

Poison Ivy 

Poison Oak

Poison Sumac

News!

We just signed the application for the loan! Very excited... But the home inspector was being a little difficult, so we will not be able to do an inspection, sadly. Everything but that is looking great!

Name Change

I have officially changed the name of this blog to "Urteaga Farms" in honor of the little farmhouse we're buying. Very excited and looking forward for this!

Urteaga Farms

Our "Urteaga Farms" dream might come true very soon!
We're planning on buying a 3 acre land with a tiny little house, and we're very excited! If everything works out, we will have it by the end of this year or before that! =D
-Charini

Winter Crops

Here are some winter crops that can be planted even when its snowy and icy.

1.Winter Radish, Black Spanish Round
http://www.burpee.com/heirloom-seeds-and-plants/heirloom-radish/radish-black-spanish-round-prod001935.html

2.Radicchio
http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/radicchio/

3.Brussels sprouts

4.Cabbage

5.Broccoli

6.Turnips

7.Kale

8.Belgian endive (indoors)
http://www.johnnyseeds.com/c-342-belgian-endive-witloof.aspx#

9.Parsnips

10.Garlic

11.Onions

12.Carrots

13.Swiss Chard

14.Spinach

15.Mustard

16.Collards

17.Leeks

18. Cauliflower

19.



Many sources say Daikon is also good through the winter, but a frost destroyed one of my Daikon plants, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Cool Garden Salad idea! - http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/endive/endive-galia-frisse-prod001828.html?catId=3022&trail=&_requestid=147865