Category: Experimental Work Farm
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We soiled our undies!
Dirt rich instead of dirt poor! We buried our wife’s panties in the backyard yesterday. Not ashamed to admit it. (No, she wasn’t in them! PEOPLE!) If (the royal) we had our life to do over again we would have studied law (did as an undergraduate) or taken soil science. Maybe both. Got to be…
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How green are our beans at the Werkes!
Satisfying to grow, nourishing and tasty, too! If Squire Blaska is proud of anything it is his green beans. Uncle Cy was the King of Corn and the Prince of Peas. His godson is the bean whisperer. The unlettered field hands can hardly keep up with the harvest of Romano pole green beans here at…
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Blaska has worms!
We got the red wigglers! Our worms are here. One-half pound of red wigglers and European night crawlers were deposited on the doorstep of the Stately Manor, neatly boxed in peat moss, by the good ol’ USPS today. That’s about 500 worms (but who’s counting) ordered on-line from Buckeye Organics, based in Newark OH. Just…
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Madison gardens its front yards
No mow more every year, it seems! Under the direction of the Head Groundskeeper, the unlettered field hands mowed the front greensward of the Stately Manor on May 28, thus ending “No Mow May.” (We’re still on the Julian calendar hereabouts.) We did our trimming at the highest setting of the Toro Recycler. Even so, the…
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We may no mow or not this May
The Squire likes squill After a winter’s hibernation, lawn mower started on the first pull yesterday 05-06-22. Ought to, the Toro is less than a year old. Fret not, No Mow May mavens, the unlettered field hands at Blaska Experimental Farm (and Penal Colony) fired up the hydrocarbon-burning device only to macerate the pile of…
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We’re getting a new park!
Not that much wrong with the old one but .. Our little park here in Orchard Ridge, all 2.68 acres of it, is being renovated. The old basketball court and single light standard were removed several years ago. Can’t remember the last time it was used. The softball backstop got taken out earlier this year.…