On a Michiana Homestead
Progression of grain harvest: wheat, barley, rye, oats, triticale (2023)
I use this kind of blog to remember all the things that I think I can remember, but actually probably won't! This year I'll use the date of the first major harvest, so each grain ought to appear one time (except for those I forgot to type in). The ripening was running 8 days behind 2022. August 16th Found my missing XTS Pronghorn Triticale August 8th At last, the harvest season of 'grains' is finished. Next is garlic and onions. Finished the White and Blue Emmer SRWF-27 Nured Zhukovsky August 5th XTF18 Swedish Triticale BS-27 Sardinian Barley...
Solar photovoltaic systems on your homestead
This blog is setup for a discussion of home solar systems. The details will be on this page, but we need this blog to have Q & A!
Progression of the 2022 corn planting and harvest
This blog is organized first the 'variety', and then within each variety, by date. Amish Mushroom Popcorn A small plot planted on June 11 with dark black soil that tends to dry out and become crumble. Two weeks later on July 3rd, looking nice. Since this soil drys out so quickly, I'm mulching with newspaper and grass clippings. I did mulch this patch with newspapers and grass clippings and dried roots that I raked while preparing the earliest grain harvest for a Gaspe Flint Corn plot #2. Looking good on September 17th. Some bird damage to the tips...
Progression of grain harvest: wheat, barley, rye, oats, triticale & rice (2022)
I use this kind of blog to remember all the things that I think I can remember, but can not! This year I'll use the date of the first major harvest, so each grain ought to appear one time (except for those I forgot to type in). July 26th Mieri Bugdaj (TTT-06) Cervena (TAS-100) Armenian Black Pollard Wheat (TTC-04) Arabian Blue (BS-117) Bere Barley (BS-08) Blue Durum Wheat (DW-01) check tag in plot Chernaya Persidsaya Wheat (TTC-02) Chiddam Blanc Wheat (TAS-133) Dandan-i-Shutur Durum Wheat (TTT-02) Elva Wheat (TTS-05) Faust Barley (BS-07) Fern April Wheat (TAS-129) Kahla Durum...
Progression of Planting the Spring Grains (2022)
April 16, 2022 Goodness, last year I put the first seeds into the ground on the 4th! Today is the 16th, I am just getting started! It's been so 'wet'. A few days ago, I flail mowed the residue from some of last year's corn Today, I gave it a light tilling. I really would have like to have done that 2 weeks ago. April 27th 2nd tilling, decay of the plant residue is looking good. Not too many 'weeds with strong roots' left. April 30th Power harrowed in the morning, then raked to prepare the seed bed. I'm going...