Upsizing the Garden

I have deciced to give this blog a restart, and kind of use it as a farm/gardening journal, which will make it more useful for myself and hopefully for others. This post is going to be a past couple of days post, and then I am going to try to do this much more often. I don't know if it will be a daily, but I am going to try to write down what I am doing on our farm as it happens. I have gotten more involved with YouTube and it has kind of taken the place of my blogs; I also have a history blog, but I want to write some more, and I think this is the best venue for me to do so.

We expanded our garden with a 25 by 100 foot addition of fenced area to an existing garden back behind the house. We did this because we have added so many black and red raspberries and rhubarb, and strawberries, and asparagus - in other words perennials over the years that we don't have enough space for our annuals - tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers etc.... . It will take us a while to fill this new area in, and I will mow it and till it and plant it when I/We get a chance. My two youngest children are interested in gardening, and they spurred me on to upsize the garden.

So far the kids have planted red onions, beets, radishes, dill and parsley on this newly tilled area, which is actually a lot longer and wider than it looks in the photo.

I am going to sign out now because I am hoping to make some hay, but the weather predictions are now - emphasis on now saying there is a chance of rain tonight instead of three days from now as they were saying yesterday. I cut a field of hay on Thursday and Friday, and now I am going to rake it to see if I can perhaps speed along its drying. I'm pretty sure my New Holland 55 rake will do its job, but I hope my John Deere 24 T baler is going to cooperate.