There are many things to love about spring time at Five Feline Farm.
Morels
Trillium
Rain drops on Liliac buds
It just doesn’t get any better than this.
Our last two posts discussed choosing determinate or indeterminate and the benefits of heirloom varieties. Now you have chosen your tomato plants and it is time to get them in the ground. If you haven’t read those yet, click here and here. Or is it? To ensure the best chance of success follow the following…
Are you tired of tomatoes yet? We are not. It is nearly October and the tomato season is not over. Yes, the tomatoes are smaller and fewer, but it is still possible to have a warm, fresh tomato straight from the garden. It seems the yellow and orange ones are more prevalent now so it…
Every garden has its pest and ours at this moment is groundhogs. If you don’t know what a groundhog is, think beaver with a short stubby furry tail. Groundhogs are a member of the rodent family. They get the hog part of their name honestly. They are hogs when it comes to munching on tender…
At Five Feline Farm we eat our landscape. It’s not what you think. We are not grazing on grass or nibbling the bark off trees. But there are a lot of things we do eat from the land. Wild Things Black raspberries and blackberries are abundant. In fact these are so plentiful, we have had…
Don’t get caught eating slime. Fresh asparagus is nothing like slimy canned stuff. Not that I’ve ever decided to try the slimy canned stuff. It just never appealed. But fresh, oh my. And to pick a handful, walk straight to the kitchen and have it on the table in under 30 minutes. Well, it just…
About this time of year as the weather turns hot, lettuce in the garden will either turn bitter or bolt. This cool season crop is not suited to temperatures in the 80’s. Oft times we find ourselves with an abundance of this delicious and nutritious crop. It can turn into a zucchini type proposition where…
