Category: Gardening

Working 6-9 in a Country Garden

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Planted 2023 Potatoes

Doesn’t that sound like a Country Song!? Working 6-9 in the warm, and especially hot, time# of the year just makes sense. I actually learned this years ago fishing Atlantic Salmon! Our Salmon fishing friends, Wayne and  Mary Ellen, who used to fish the Fancy Pool, taught us to fish from daylight till about 9am. Take a break in the afternoon, and return to the River at about 6pm and fish till dark. Well, now, that’s the way I work in the Garden!

The following is a Photo Gallery of our 2023 Gardens…

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Our Briden Farm 2023 Potatoes Are Planted

Planted 2023 Potatoes

Imagine, two years ago this garden was forested. Woodlands comprised mostly of Ash and Poplar. Using our Goats, Pigs, Chickens, and jokingly, sometimes Dogs, we’ve managed to make a Garden out of it. This year it’s going to be mostly Potatoes. It feels good to have it planted. 

I’ll leave it be for a bit, then add in some companion plants. We interplant Bush Beans, Green and Yellow Beans, to help deter Potato Bugs. In two years here, and one in Clementsport, we’ve not had a Potato Bug. We’ve also not planted on the same ground two years in a row! So, this year will be the real test, having had at least part of this garden in potatoes last year. Will we have Potato Bugs? Time will Tell. 

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It’s been funny to watch Roscoe this year, He remembers last year, how I’d get after him if he walked on the rows! I think, watching Him lick his lips, that he might also remember the great tastes we got from the garden last year!

Rootin, Tootin, Garden Tillers At Briden Farm

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Rootin, Tootin, Garden Tillers

We worked this ground in the Fall, and need it reworked this Spring. So, we’ve put our rootin, tootin, garden tillers, to work! They’ll soon have it all plowed up!

Then, later, we’ll apply our natural fertilizers! It’s a real bird brain way of doing things! No good to be chicken! The whole thing quacks me up! 🦆