Homestead

My garden notebook was a little neglected in March and April, but I managed to get a few things in there. I am using it to keep track of weather, temps, and what I’m doing when in the weekly pages. I’m also trying to do at least one sketch per week to build my skills…

I only have a couple pages to share with you from my Homestead Notebook. I’m hoping to get back into doing some garden/nature studies in it along with notes from planting and harvesting. One veggie I’m trying to learn more about growing is onions. I’ve successfully grown them, but they are very small, so I’m…

It’s that time of year again here in the Pacific NW! Time to start planning the garden and starting some seeds (Why have starts from the stores gotten SO expensive?!) I have a mix of seeds, some from my favorite Etsy seller Seed Geeks, some from the store, some home saved seeds, some from Urban…

Do you want the good news or the bad news first? Let’s just get the bad out of the way first: My garden STILL has aminopyralid herbicide in the compost. ARGH! Rather than dig the poison compost out, we built up by adding lots of rotted wood, good compost, and layers of other mulch last…

Here’s the update to the Homestead Notebook for June. I’m using it to track what I planted and how much I got from the plantings. This was such a long, cold, wet spring that it really messed up my crops. When it finally warmed up, almost every single cabbage went to seed. But I did…

Normally this time of year I have all the garden planted, but the weather has been cold and rainy with a few warm days here and there, so I’ve been planting and sowing seeds when I can. I feel a bit behind, but I think everything will pull through okay before the fall frost. The…

This month in the Homestead Notebook I was able to add a few recipes we like and the plans for the backyard micro homestead this year. Plus, there are also some details on our chickens and plans to put together some DIY hoop tunnels for our garden this spring. First, the Cowboy Candy (also known…