Spreading aged goat manure on the garlic bed.
Folks!
Here's a chronicle in pictures of some of the goings on here at the BZ Farm starting in March 2022 and updated when we can.
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Thank you goats!
Here's the mustard greens cover crop preceding the planting of garlic. The mustard is intended to reduce fungus that can cause the garlic to rot.
The little goat hutch has produced this much manure and bedding over the summer.
The peppers go into a 10% canning salt solution for six weeks.
Hot sauce in the making.
Hot sauce in the making.
A pretty little Cayenne pepper.
Finally the cabbages are hung in the root cellar to be replanted in the spring to grow cabbage seed.
Penn State green cabbage being saved for growing out seed next year.
Penn State green cabbage being saved for growing out seed next year.
Tomato seeds drying.
Thanks AJ for helping us gather and stack our firewood for the season.
We scooped out the seeds from some nice ripe Black Krim tomatoes (and some other varieties), made sauce with the rest of the tomatoes and put the seeds and a little water in jars to ferment so that the gelatinous coating on the seeds gets dissolved. After three or four days, stirring once or twice a day, the good seeds sink to the bottom. Then we scoop out the pulp, empty the seeds into a strainer and rinse them. Then we spread the seeds on Hippy Tupperware lids to dry. We'll do germination tests on the seeds this winter and if they pass muster, you can buy them from us next year.
A Black Krim tomato. Deeeeelisious! The variety originated in the Crimea.
Jada won a logging truck of firewood in a raffle and invited friends over to buck up the logs and everyone got to go home with a load. Thanks Jada!
Saving tomato seeds.
Wonderlight tomatoes.
Black Krim tomatoes.
We had a bumper crop of Candystick Delicata squash. BZ Buttercup squash in the background.
Upper Garden on October 5th.
BZ Buttercup squash harvest.
Thanks to AJ for helping us stack the firewood. The woodshed is almost full.
Here's a variety of indeterminate yellow cherry tomatoes we are developing. Some of the plants from the source seed grew red cherry tomatoes. This is the first generation. It's probably not stablaized yet. We'll grow it out again next year and see what happens. We're going to call it Solar Flare.
We has a very nice garlic harvest this time around.