Year of the male goat!

Butterscotch had twin boys.  Two cute camera shy kids.

                                   Pete and Delmar

my favorite organic gardening book

I added an amazon widget with my favorite gardening book today. I wanted to share this book with you. In the spring of 2008 I checked this book out from my local library, I continued to re check it out via the Internet until they would not allow me to check it out any more. I liked this book so much I finally bought it from amazon the following year(I love getting things in the mail especially when I get free shipping). I was reading about planting potatoes, when I read in this book that recent research suggest that you plant your potato cuttings within a few hours of cutting your tubers. This is how I intend to plant the rest. When all is said and done I will post on which method worked the best for me. If you you do not buy this book I suggest you check it out from your local library, it is so helpful.

planting potatoes and a new baby goat

In the above photos you can see the trenches that I planted my potatoes in. In the first 2 rows to the right I planted the little whole potatoes. They are already covered by an inch of dirt. In the first picture you can see the potato pieces that cured over night, I placed them about 2' apart and then covered them with about an inch over top. I plan on continuing to cover them up as they grow.

The other picture is a picture of our new Nigerian Dwarf goat. He is about 12 hours old in this picture. He was born late last night. I think he is colored up beautiful.

south carolina potatoes

Today I am plannting a potato bed. I am hoping for an early spring(the ground hog said so). I will take pictures and post them this week. I do not know anyone who has planted potatoes. I will live and learn. I planted a few potatoes last year that had sprouted in my pantry, it got hot and dry and because of where I planted them I was not able to water them. I did get some small potatoes from this planting, I saved them and they have now sprouted, I will plant these today. I also have some russet potatoes that have sprouted in my pantry this year. I have cut these up leaving at least 2 eyes on each piece. I will let these cure for a few days before I plant them. I planted some seed potatoes several years ago that I purchased at a farm store. I did not get a single potato from them, I do not know why.

siberian husky puppy

My daughter bought a Siberian husky puppy. My daughter decided she was allergic to her so Ellie Mae(the puppy) now lives with us. She is as sweet as can be. She only wants to be outside in the morning and evening hours because it is too hot for her during the day. This breed of dog probably does not belong in the south.

She has beautiful blue eyes!

summer flowers

Oh so pretty!

cactus flower

mammoth sunflower

I planted the sunflowers in with the corn.
They soon towered above the corn:

This is not actually a flower, but the corn silks were so pretty!

wild floweryellow squash blossom

spring flowers

white peonies:

roses and clematis:




All the rain this spring(and the bunny manure) made the flowers grow abundantly. The bunnies got buckets full of roses to chow down on the entire month of May. The roses have slowed down now, but everything else is growing well.

It's a girl! new baby angora goat

This is Maddyson(pronounced madison) the female angora goat that I recently purchased in North Carolina . She was bred. She had a sweet little girl on April 22nd. Maddyson is a very good mama.

These are pictures of her baby Felicity at 2 days old: