Laughing Thyme Farm: Living the Dream

More Garden!!

I am pleased to find that three of my rows that we planted last Sunday are up for sure!  One of them is a maybe.  Now we’ll just see how they do in the TN winter.  Supposedly brassicas and spinach and such are supposed to do okay here in the winter.  That would be nice! 

The garlic bulbs are here!  Apparently I picked the order time of the first week of October rather than the last week of September.  I don’t REMEMBER doing that, but it very well may be the case.  I don’t remember ordering a mix of garlic like I did.  I thought that I ordered more of two different kinds, but “apparently” I did order the mix and I picked the first week of October as the shipping date.  Sigh…..preggo brain.  Anyway, they are really nice bulbs.  It will be fun to see how well they come out next July.

We have the garden tilled and ready for some horse poo-poo.  Our neighbor has horses and gives us their manure.  We used the last batch on the other garden we worked on last weekend, so we need more.  Once that is in we’ll plant the garlic and cover it with a straw/dry grass mixture.  The garlic will grow throughout the winter, spring and part of the summer.  Then, as I wrote earlier, it will be harvested in July. 

I’m still planning my edible landscaping project.  I know that it will be an on-going thing throughout the years, but the main part needs to be planned out still.  I’m on the herb portion.  I will be having culinary herbs, as well as healing herbs.  I’m more of the natural healing mindset than the chemical garbage that we buy at the store. 

I’m also getting ready to purchase a cement mold so that I can save a little money. We are going to need a LOT of them to do what I’m wanting to.  This seemed the better route.  It will take a while to make them, so I’m purchasing the mold now and doing a little at a time.  Slow and steady….