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but it was a beginning
2025
-- december 2025 --
$ 2025.12.25 thu
Got my first American Persimmons this year and didn't even notice ð¤£
Diospyros virginiana
Diospyros virginiana
$ 2025.12.21 sun
Happy Solstice!
"...ere the sun rises!â
"...ere the sun rises!â
$ 2025.12.20 sat
Winter is a good time to catch up on seed saving.
$ 2025.12.01 mon
Unknown apple seedling still hanging in December
-- november 2025 --
$ 2025.11.14 fri
A few things still hanging on
$ 2025.11.02 sun
The last flight of the bumblebees
[video: 18078634622172702.mp4] $ 2025.11.01 sat
Some pears still hanging on over the cover crop for next years beds.
-- october 2025 --
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$ 2025.10.25 sat
Still going...
$ 2025.10.24 fri
My Apple made a tiny little apple.
$ 2025.10.20 mon
Margil. Think it needed longer.
$ 2025.10.19 sun
Maiden Blush
$ 2025.10.18 sat
Liberty
$ 2025.10.12 sun
Cherub
-- september 2025 --
$ 2025.09.28 sun
Think I've got something besides mason bees. Some tubes have dried grass instead of dried mud.
$ 2025.09.26 fri
Domingo Rojo and Brighstone dry beans
$ 2025.09.22 mon
Happy hobbit day! Great time of year for a reread.
'If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold...
'If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold...
$ 2025.09.21 sun
Last day of summer
$ 2025.09.20 sat
The most disease free of the apple seedlings. Williams Pride X Pink Parfait and Williams Pride X unknown.
$ 2025.09.19 fri
Pawpaw seeds heading into cold stratification.
$ 2025.09.15 mon
Hazel thicket planted in 2019 from 5 bare root plants starting to produce a decent amount of hazelnuts.
$ 2025.09.12 fri
So much taller than the rest.
$ 2025.09.08 mon
#sunflower
$ 2025.09.07 sun
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$ 2025.09.07 sun
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$ 2025.09.07 sun
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$ 2025.09.07 sun
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$ 2025.09.07 sun
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$ 2025.09.06 sat
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-- august 2025 --
$ 2025.08.28 thu
The sunflowers are just about to open and it feels like Autumn already
$ 2025.08.24 sun
Maiden Blush apple
$ 2025.08.24 sun
At least the pears did well this year.
$ 2025.08.18 mon
Strain of french cassoulet 'Tarbais' pole beans I'm growing out for seed selection. Selecting for long pods and seed...
$ 2025.08.17 sun
$ 2025.08.17 sun
$ 2025.08.17 sun
$ 2025.08.11 mon
blueberries!
$ 2025.08.02 sat
#monarchbutterfly
$ 2025.08.01 fri
Japanese beetle damage. They seemed to like Liberty.
-- july 2025 --
$ 2025.07.28 mon
My local bees are not fans of the cardboard tubes.
$ 2025.07.27 sun
Well shit. Orchard swales are going to have to wait. Backblade is a little too much.
$ 2025.07.27 sun
Brightstone bean flower
$ 2025.07.26 sat
Looks a little humid out
$ 2025.07.20 sun
Homebrew day. American Cream Ale. An excellent summer lawnmower beer.
$ 2025.07.18 fri
ð¤¬ð¤¬ð¤¬Of course they eat apples.
$ 2025.07.06 sun
This year's garlic harvest
$ 2025.07.06 sun
Healed G.214/Liberty graft
-- june 2025 --
$ 2025.06.25 wed
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$ 2025.06.23 mon
Plestiodon fasciatus
$ 2025.06.23 mon
#pridemonth
$ 2025.06.18 wed
Black swallowtail larvae on my Dill
$ 2025.06.16 mon
Luna Moth
$ 2025.06.15 sun
So. Many. Slugs.
$ 2025.06.09 mon
$ 2025.06.04 wed
3 counties away.
$ 2025.06.02 mon
$ 2025.06.02 mon
This tree really sticks out in the orchard.
-- may 2025 --
$ 2025.05.31 sat
Cross section of a 5 year old whip and tongue graft on bud 118.
$ 2025.05.31 sat
$ 2025.05.26 mon
$ 2025.05.26 mon
Any ideas? I've got a very sick Sweet 16 here. Wasn't frost.
$ 2025.05.24 sat
$ 2025.05.10 sat
Rodent control
$ 2025.05.09 fri
$ 2025.05.04 sun
Mud season continues. Good day to brew a bitter.
$ 2025.05.02 fri
$ 2025.05.01 thu
1. Open pollinated Rubaiyat seedling
2. Black Strawberry
2. Black Strawberry
-- april 2025 --
$ 2025.04.27 sun
Maypole
$ 2025.04.27 sun
New home for my Mason bees
$ 2025.04.26 sat
Forgot to wrap a graft! lol
$ 2025.04.25 fri
$ 2025.04.25 fri
$ 2025.04.25 fri
My very red leaved (leafed?) seedling apple.
$ 2025.04.25 fri
$ 2025.04.22 tue
Cherry Crush on MM111 from @skillcult before pruning this year. Crazy growth.
$ 2025.04.13 sun
Onions planted
$ 2025.04.13 sun
Was looking up Karmijn de Sonnaville...'suffers' from russet. ð¤£
$ 2025.04.06 sun
Apple blossoms are ready to go
$ 2025.04.06 sun
Mushrooms!
$ 2025.04.04 fri
Leave your kale in the ground all winter.
$ 2025.04.01 tue
Nothing like free woodchips
-- march 2025 --
$ 2025.03.31 mon
Saved what I could from the seedlings bed. Mice and deer hit it hard this winter. Looking forward to that Pink Parf...
$ 2025.03.30 sun
Some buds and even mushrooms are starting to push. Doing a little grafting.
$ 2025.03.22 sat
The warm weather is always fleeting this time of year.
$ 2025.03.19 wed
Need to build one of these. From the book 'Farm Woodwork' by Louis Michael Roehl.
$ 2025.03.16 sun
$ 2025.03.16 sun
The red wood from my also red leafed seedling apple. Will it have red fleshed fruit??
$ 2025.03.16 sun
Great, underground rodent damage in the orchard. ð¤¬ð¤¬ð¤¬
$ 2025.03.14 fri
#spring
$ 2025.03.11 tue
Did Elmo fire the USPS? My scions going to start budding out while driving circles around Indiana.
$ 2025.03.10 mon
Finally starting some seeds. Onions, Peas, Leeks, and...
-- february 2025 --
$ 2025.02.23 sun
Have a few somewhat scraggly Black Strawberry apple scions available. DM me if interested.
-- january 2025 --
$ 2025.01.20 mon
Well, I get to start the espalier again.
$ 2025.01.04 sat
Goldrush still hanging in January on the espalier.
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