Friday, June 20, 2014

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.


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Charini

Sunday, June 8, 2014

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



Wednesday, June 4, 2014

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!

Sunday, June 1, 2014

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!