sandhillsis on September 26th, 2009

It’s officially fall here in my wheat field. That means pickin’ parties without mosquitoes, gun shows, antelope on the barbie, and dat gum carrots. I only planted a row (about 15 foot) of carrots, and now I have enough to keep us in carrots for the next hundred years. It seems I can do anything [...]

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sandhillsis on July 30th, 2009

It’s been a pretty good gardening year, outside of a few mishaps. When the tomatoes really start coming on, that means onion harvest time here. A few weeks ago the onion tops laid over on the ground and started to dry out. I wanted them to hang out in the ground just a little longer but we got [...]

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sandhillsis on July 22nd, 2009

Here we are midsummer and gardens across the nation are producing wildly, including mine for the most part. I’m worried about my broccoli and cauliflower though… It doesn’t look so good. It seems my broccoli has been stripped naked and my cauliflower is suffering from…oh I don’t know squatters. In my garden, squatters don’t have [...]

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sandhillsis on July 8th, 2009

  Have you ever noticed America’s work ethic is dwindling at a record pace? Our friend, a first generation, self-made millionaire, has a lot to say about this. He contributes it to the fact that people don’t understand the law of the harvest. Every generation that isn’t raised on a farm, is one more generation that doesn’t understand…if [...]

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