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Its been a while since we've written about our garden because, to be honest, a post about vegetables growing would be pretty dull. But today, at long last, we managed to harvest something's from our garden. Like most things on our farm, the garden really suffered as a result of the month along drought in July. We lost all our tomatoes (except for 5 drought resistant Mexican tomatillos), our peppers and eggplant, and our pease have been seriously stunted by the lack of rain. Throw in some anibbling bunnies, and today's harvest was a pleasant surprise. After 2 hours of weeding we see pleased to harvest from the garden today; 1 pound of green beans (and there are PLEANTY more), a huge bunch of Swiss chard, some beautiful lettuce (take that bunnies!!) and a few peas. We're looking forward to our beets in about 2 weeks. Before long it will be time to can/jar/freeze up the rest of our bounty. What a great time of year!
In other farm news, the chickens took the month of July off from egg laying, probably because it was so hot and dry. So we actually had to buy eggs, and tell our customers to do the same (cringe). But, yesterday we found some eggs- we've had 21 since yesterday. It's been a good day overall at Hill Giant Farm. How about at your house?
My day's been good, thanks for asking. No eggs though.
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