While i work away on a new post on tinned fish, I though you might like to see some photos from my day.
Fancy just turned two this year and we had her happy gotcha day this month, she is growing up into a lovely combo of house/farm dog. She is also a very alert little dog that barks to get the big boy’s backup
The weather has been all over the place, we have had rain, freezing rain, sleet, high wind up to 100 km a hour, fog, and snow. The ice crystals certainly added some lovely effect on plant stems as they have been melting out
Below, i am not sure why this big old sage plant didn’t get fully harvested late last fall but it did not, and it came though the winter remarkably intact, it just seemed so pretty to me with the ice edges with the grey overcast sky and the fresh snow cover
So many birds, everyone know where the BOSS meal is locally and they are coming in droves with this wild storms and weather
There are 30 to 50 plus red wing black birds that arrived two days ago and have stayed for the storms but i expect they will move on very soon, i hope i will be able to get some good photos before they do but i have already done my once a day down the stairs and back up so perhaps tomorrow, fingers crossed!
I am very much enjoying my flowers from DH and Miss R, so pretty, the roses will not last long but i will enjoy them while i have them, the much older bunch of pretties from hubby is still holding on well, such a lovely color!
Are you on true spring, or false spring or what spring lol!?
I love a good canned Tea Concentrate Hibiscus has so many traditional health benefits that it was the clear winner for me to make up a batch for the fridge first and then for the canning pantry!
Hibiscus Tea Concentrate Recipe
Hibiscus Tea Syrup Recipe- 38th edition Blue Book Guide to Preserving
Makes approx 4 cups
½ cup dried hibiscus flowers
2 cups sugar
3 cups water
Combine dried hibiscus flowers and water at med heat, bring to a boil, drop down to a simmer for 5 min, then remove from heat and let steep for 30 min, strain, you will need to gently press the flowers to get them to release their liquid
Return the tea to the clean med size pot, add the sugar and extras if using them bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer, simmer for 5 min, Into a clean pint jar, at which point you can either water bath can it for 15 for shelf stable or cool to room temp and store in the fridge for up to 4 weeks.
I have a high tea pot luck coming in april and taking premade shelf stable hibiscus syrup is very much on my list, along with a number of fancy fixings for use as a iced tea. The fact that this lovely ruby red floral with a sour lemonade style bit to it can be served hot or cold or added to other drinks or recipes makes it so useful!
Yes, I added in some dried ginger root to my batch, I find fresh or candied or dried ginger root adds a lovely balance to the tea personally.
So what Is Hibiscus Tea?
Hibiscus tea is an herbal infusion made from the dried calyces (sepals) of the Hibiscus sabdariffa flower, commonly known as roselle. Native to tropical regions of Africa, this vibrant flower produces fruit-like structures surrounded by fleshy, crimson calyces that are harvested, dried, and used to prepare the tea.
It has been used in traditional medicine across various cultures for centuries. In Egypt, it’s known as “karkade” In Mexico and Central America, it’s called “agua de Jamaica” In West Africa, hibiscus tea or “bissap” is considered the national drink in countries like Senegal.
Let dig into it a bit more in detail
Nutritional Profile of Hibiscus Tea
Here’s a look at the nutritional composition of 240ml (8 oz) of unsweetened hibiscus tea:
Nutrient
Amount per 240ml
Calories
5-10 kcal
Carbohydrates
0-2 g
Protein
0 g
Fat
0 g
Sugar
0 g
Fiber
0 g
Vitamin A
Trace amounts
Vitamin C
12-20 mg
Calcium
7-10 mg
Iron
0.1-0.2 mg
Magnesium
3-5 mg
Phosphorus
3-5 mg
Potassium
10-15 mg
Anthocyanins
Significant amounts
Organic Acids
Present (citric, malic, tartaric)
I think most of you know that i collect teapots and teacups, and maybe some cookie jars and bean pots and rolling pins among other things 🙂 I just adore this teapot found by DH at a second store this past winter, it has all the flowers from different Canadian Provinces on both the plate and around the cup itself with a Canadian flag inside. I did a little research on it and here is what i found
Royal Albert “Our Emblems Dear” Cup and Saucer, Canada’s Provincial Flowers Gainsborough Shape Made in England, Released in 1980’s
What is your province or states flower, I have always loved my Alberta wild rose and i still grow Alberta wild rose in my Ontario gardens but i do adore a number of the other provinces flowers as well Do you have a favorite tea cup or mug with flowers on it? if so what are yours?
How Much Hibiscus Tea Can You Drink in a Day?
For Adults: 2-3 cups (480-720 ml) daily is considered safe and potentially beneficial for most healthy adults.
Maximum Safe Amount: Limiting consumption to no more than 4 cups daily is advisable to avoid potential side effects.
When we can’t be as picky on certain cuts in the store due to prices or if we are buying bulk quarters or half’s of whole animals, we are going to end up with a lot more bone in cuts. So many recipes call or we just prefer boneless meat for certain dishes.
This recipe above uses the left over bones and meat bits to make a lovely soup with, the key take aways are simple, don’t long simmer your bones with the meat on.. instead deep roast them till lots of lovely brown bits on the bone, then remove that tender roasted meat for adding at the last moments of the dish to reheat, then use the bones, and that pan deglaze to add depth of flavor and mouth feel to the end soup dish itself.
Ideally you want to plan your bone roasting to go with something else so you are not heating your oven just for this or do remember that a smaller Toaster Oven is a excellent choice to save power costs as you are heating a much smaller oven while still having all the benefits of using a oven.
Last but not least, while this style does work better with med to larger bones, it can be done with smaller as well, When was the last time you roasted bones, waste not, want not!
when he decided that he needed a spoof on Jason from Friday the 13th, having a regular day on the farm, tongue in cheek, who was i to say no. He did the photos as selfies and i did the backend work on them.
The horses need their hay!
Its maple season, the sap is running!
Oh, did you bring us mealworms and cuddles
Lets top up the wood box
Relaxing on the deck with a coffee after chores are done
There is a joy in being creative, be it whatever floats your boat! Its been a limiting week on some things but it was so fun to watch him get excited about the idea, create his outfit, storyboard it and then make it happen over a course of a couple days, I enjoyed my end of the project, and remember, farmers, homesteaders, and to a point gardeners and more, we never get days off so we might as well play when we can 🙂
How can it be Friday already, and Friday the 13th to boot, speaking of boots, i am currently wearing a air cast boot along with a wrist brace as i took a good old fashioned fall a week ago.
When i fell, i knew from the level of pain that i had for sure hurt my foot, not rolled my ankle, i have done that before this was different, a very different deeper kind of pain and while we got me up, and got me in and leg up and iced, it only took me a short while to write Dear Hubby that as soon as he was done work, we needed to head to the ER to get x-rays
Farmers, homesteaders, Gen X whatever you want to call us, we are as stubborn as the day is long, i do understand the irony of telling him to finish up his work day first but honestly, i was in for hours wait at the er, why not get those work hours in.
Of we headed and much to my surprise, 7 hours, and 18 x-rays later in a combo of my foot, my wrist and my hip, i was out the door $225 poorer with a wrist brace and a air cast boot, while the ER visit was covered, the medical equipment was not, now it might be possible that maybe we can see if we can get any back though our personal medical coverage from work, we will see. They gave me meds for the pain and they were nice for the few hours they lasted and then back to over the counter meds for that.
Still to be fair, within 24 hours i was called for my CT scan to be booked and shortly after that, i got the call to book with the orthopedist at the hospital for the start of my follow up care. While i am happy that things are lined up, i can already tell my wrist is fine, it will heal and heal well, my hip is bruised and i have some other bruises and even a good scrape but my foot is another matter, a week later and the deep lines of bruising are still appear and growing. To put my weight down wrong can still take my breath away and while i have made a point of getting downstairs once for a short while every two days, i need to learn how to do the stairs safely, i have been mainly living on the second floor.
The master bedroom is huge, so half of it has been moved into a mini dining room with a table/chair and more for me to work at, Dear Hubby did a full week of Teli-work, he had already booked friday off so it was a short week but this allowed him to give me a helping hand as we sorted things out.
Thankfully i can still find smaller projects to keep me busy and allow me to use my grey matter and my good hand and foot lol Seed starting, willow carving, writing and much more is on the go.
Lots of things going on in the background, we are in the waiting game to find out if DH’s job will be effected by reductions taking place or not, we have been though this before, its nerve racking to say the least and i know so many are on the same pins an needles.
This is a good year to make sure that the farm gives back as much as possible in terms of both savings and earnings. Last years drought was brutal and we will wait to see how many of the spring planted in 2025 will be alive this spring.
I have not decided yet if i am going to let any of my current hens sit this year, i was planning on adding in meat chicks this spring but i am thinking that it might need to be a fall raising. I will have lots of ducklings as i added in four new duck hens for a total of seven hens and two drakes for the duck breeding flock, with those numbers i will have both lots to raise and lots of sell if wanted!
This year is going to be a grow and put up two years on a few things that are quite low in the canning pantry, an its also a clear the jars year, if its over 3 years in age and we are not eating it, then i will use it as fodder or compost and get my jar back into use, filled with what we do in fact eat!
It will be a lean year in terms of out sourced imputes plants/fruit tree wise, it will be a production year in terms of wild fruits and foraged items added in, plus bird line nursery starts, more on that later.
What’s new in your world? Did you keep up on the global news? Local news? Stayed away from the news? Are you in the now or are you planning and plotting? Are you worried about your job? While you be looking for more ways to lower costs by using your farm/homestead/garden? Looking to try and find a way to earn a little as well? What is your plan on that?
“Most green lacewings have golden or copper eyes and are found on foliage. They are poor, erratic flyers and strongly attracted to light. Some 25 species occur in Canada, the most common of which are the common green (Chrysoperla carnea) and the goldeneyed (Chrysopa oculata), found in all provinces and territories except Nunavut.”
Tiny, bad flyers and o so fragile wings and for most folks unnoticed, their larvae, however, are entirely different beasts, being voracious predators, and are often nicknamed ‘Antlions’ or ‘Aphid-lions’ pertaining to their ferocious behavior and enormous appetite for Aphids and other small invertebrates.
We want these in our organic gardens, the green are most likely to be in our gardens, with the brown more likely in the food forests or more naturalized areas
3 Top Reason’s to want these amazing friends and their offspring in your gardens and yards, no matter where you live! Big or small, they are worth giving them what they need to increase their numbers.
1 – Rapid Reproduction Each female will lay several hundred eggs, each lacewing larve can eat up to 200 pests before it is ready to move on to the next stage, they are a powerhouse indeed! The females overwinter in leaf cover and come out for the first of TWO hatches per year. This means you do not need many females to successfully overwinter in order to rapidly build a army of larve, and its timing works with out Zone 5a timing for second fall planting timing.
2- Eco= Friendly Pest Control, by hosting and providing what they need, they will help you in your organic battle protecting your plants, soil and more
3-Adults offer Pollination ability’s adult lacewings visit flowers for nectar and pollen, contributing to the pollination process as they move from bloom to bloom. We are very lucky indeed that many of our favorite’s are theirs as well
Added Bonus, they are so fun to try for good Macro Photography on!
Now you might be wondering, why is she posting about these guys now?
Why because we are starting flowers from seed and we are planning our gardens right now!
Adult lacewings don’t eat pests; they need nectar and pollen to survive and reproduce. By planting specific flowers, you’re essentially laying out a buffet that says, “Welcome, make yourself at home!”
Look for plants with small, open flowers that make nectar and pollen easily accessible. Here are some top picks:
In the garden itself
Dill and Fennel, they are magnets for so many beneficial types including all types of lacewings, their flat topped style of flowers are perfect landing pads and amazing spots to try for that macro photography!
In the flower beds or garden edges look to Cosmos and Angelica, again anything is open single flowering type will work, the truth is for most things if you can avoid double blooms its best, they are bred to be showy for us, but not great feeders for pretty much anything
For both a mix of native and flower beds, look to the ASTERS, these are idea in gardens, flower beds and meadows/food forests, they can get huge! Check out that amazing wild grown aster plant in my park garden, it was covered in small native bees and so much more! (Farmgal Photography is for hire both locally and i will travel for the right project!)
Providing Shelter and Water
Beyond food, lacewings need places to rest, hide from predators, and find water, especially during hot, dry spells.
Think about creating a layered habitat.
Ideally leave some taller grasses and shrubs, in the flower bed, perhaps a lovely clump of grass to add texture will also serve well in this way, for the garden, well placed fruit bushes on edges will work very well. Shallow pans of pebbled water left out tucked under a bush or near good feeding stations will help keep them in your desired areas in those hot summer days.
Winter time, they need leaf litter to successfully overwinter and that also means no early clean up in the spring, so if you know you are going to clean up a certain area due to it being a early spring micro zone, don’t leave leaf litter there, have a spot near the garden that you leave it for them to find and spend the winter in that you know you can let it be.
What is your most common Lacewing in your personal neck of the woods? Have you spotted them over the years? There are going to be a lot of new gardeners starting and lots of older gardeners expanding this year and years to come, a little planning for eco friendly, extreme low cost ways to help your garden thrive is well worth a tiny bit of planning on your part to invite and keep these guys around.
if you truly can’t find any, start looking for the adults and if need be carefully move a few of them to your garden area giving them all they need, they will quickly settle in and become fast friends!
Welcome to Waste Not, we will find a way series. This will be a very broad coverage, it could be a way to prepare and freeze something, it could be away to take a leftover and turn it into a new meal, it could be a way to take odd bits and use them up.
How they are used up will also be varied, perhaps it will be eaten by us, or the dogs, or as fodder, or composted in different ways, hints and tips for small spaces, small gardens, or big gardens or homestead or the small flock owner.
Today we are going to talk about potato’s that got away from us, there was a potato sale on and extra ten pound bags were picked up, one bag got turned into boiled potato’s and grated hashbrowns, half of the other bag got used for fresh use but not fast enough.
Have you notice how fast food turns these day, i have at times in the past months walked away from buying potato’s due to their very Poor condition, if i have to cut away 40 to 50% of them to use them, i am not buying them! and shame on the store for selling them!
These guys had sprouted and so i have continued the process for them to be well started for planting, they got cut for a good strong eye and will be air dried to cure their skin before being planted. I will come back and add in the dried photo. They have been placed in a cool but well ventilated space with no direct sunlight on the cardboard box, as it will help them dry out.
Which is how you take 6 potato’s and turn them into 13 plants! That ten pound bag was bought at 1.99, the feed bags are free, the soil/straw combo was not but it will continue to feed the soil and garden after use as well, the cardboard box was included from the store and will be reused afterwards till its composted
Each of these will be planted in groupings into feed bags for early starting in our seedling starting area and moved out as soon as possible for very early spring small potato harvests.
Yes i know they are not seed potato’s, yes i have those on order, yes i will be planting like normal in the gardens, but i am not going to waste these and the ability to get them back into my food system.
the small bits that were leftover, i had two choices with, cook in the next feed the chicken batch or compost, as i do NOT like to feed sprouted potato’s raw or cooked to anyone or anything, into the compost it goes!
What is the last thing you saved? What little bit did you find that you used up or figure out how to add to broth making or feed out as fodder, and for fodder, i am including all those house dogs, or small chicken flock owners or even those meal worm growers etc
The question really is what kind of Ice storm are we going to have and that is still up in the air because it could shift and that slight shift could mean a big difference.. what kind of difference?
Are we having this kind of ice storm as we have had in the past?
This kind of storm will drop power lines for days, leaving us to cook on the wood stove and wearing ice cramps on boots for chores and pretty much close things down for a few days to weeks I took this photo from a ice storm here on the farm 11 years ago
Or we could have this kind of ice storm, still going to take down trees, be slippy, work from home but the odds are the power if out will be a day or two and it will melt off without much damage
This type of ice storm means i am out with my camera because while you need to waddle to be safe, its just pretty out there and the odds are highly in your favorite that they will just melt, crack off and have limited damage to trees and more
They are not the same, but the prep for them is, because there is NO way to know what one we will be getting, so extra water needs to be drawn for livestock, for the household, laundry will be fully caught up, extra wood will be brought to the close porch for the wood stove, any extra space in the freezers will have jugs and or any other freezer safe filled and added for extra drinking water if needed but mainly to keep the freezers colder for longer, the camping cooler will come up to act as the temp fridge
We are in the dark purple zone fully, so 10 to 25mm but i am hearing that it could be up to 40 mm
The biggest issue is that the ground water is moving right now and the sump pump is for the first time in 8 plus months running and its running hard which means that when the power goes out, that there will be water in the cellar, its designed for this, everything is raise up for this very reason but its still something that is a pain the , well you know what, unless you run the genny 24/7 to keep the sump pump going, its going to get damp down there.
While its not good for the seedlings and plants to lose their lights, they can be brought upstairs if needed and thankfully i do not have eggs in the incubator yet so i don’t have to worry about that. Charge the battery chargers and so on and plan for possible wood stove cooking and extra uses of the shuttle chefs and we enjoy the sunshine right now and wait!
German Giant Radish has been added to my radish growing this year for a couple of reasons. Ah Radishes, one of the fastest growing crops you can get in the garden. Lets talk about this amazing plant, you have summer radish, which will give you sweeter end results in cooler spring/fall plantings, spicy hotter versions in the heat of summer but are still ideal to be planted into shade spots and then you have winter radishes that are bigger and will extend into early frosts
In Canada Radishes are a very common veggie, when i was growing up, you had small round red with white flesh and depending on when harvested, they could be mild or hot! or HOT! Eaten whole, maybe with a bit of salt or dipped into a dressing or sliced into rounds and added to a salad.
Boy, were we missing out, i still remember being the first time i was served roasted hot radishes, it was in Helsinki, in Finland that first got to try so many different ways that radish could be prepared and i have been hooked. Then came our local food share program and suddenly winter radish became something that i could get regular, why i can’t buy Daikon everywhere is beyond me, the closest store that carries it local to me regular year round is 45 to 60 min away depending on traffic
I am growing six different types of radish on the farm this year, I will be growing
Cherry Bells “Here is a delightful looking summer radish with 2.5-5 cm diameter cherry-red roots that have a pleasing, mild flavoured white flesh. Cherry Belle holds great potential for extending the season as it forces well under glass and maintains its superior eating quality for a long time. An ideal variety for late spring and early summer plantings. Introduced in 1949.”
Easter Egg “This is a colourful addition to the radish family. Stunning intense shades of white, red, purple, pink and violet roots make this tasty radish a visual, as well as culinary, treat. The roots are large and smooth skinned, flesh is firm and crisp”
French Breakfast “An older variety grown since at least the late 1870’s. Produces rich scarlet red roots with white tips that are crisp, mild and surprisingly sweet. A real favorite that has stood the test of time!
New to the farm and to me are
Crimson Giant : H. A. Dreer, in a 1910 booklet that they published, had this to say about ‘Crimson Giant’ radishes, “This variety is suitable both for forcing or early planting out of doors. A remarkable feature of this Radish is that it will grow double the size of other round red forcing Radishes and still remain solid. The ordinary forcing Radish, after growing to the size of two or three inches in circumference, becomes pithy, while the Crimson Giant will grow to six and seven inches in circumference and still remain solid and juicy, free from all signs of becoming soft.”
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German Giant ” German Giant is a solid red colored, round shaped, radish with crisp, white, and pungent flesh. It resists getting woody or spongy and can be harvested from golf ball size on up to about the size of a cue ball. To achieve the larger sized radishes, provide them ample space by thinning the seedlings to at least one-inch apart.”
and of course i will be growing Daikon Radish a winter radish, i will do a totally different post on tillage radish, which i have brought in a whole pound of seed on for use to help in my new garden area that has some of the worst soil i have ever found on the farm!
They can be grown in pots, they can be grown in flower beds, tucked here and there and replanted every two weeks for a growing supply, no one is going to notice if you pop a radish seed in and around your flowers, it will just be green undergrowth to the person walking by.
Radishes should be on your garden grow list and your seed saving list! One of the fastest growing plants to get food on the plate, pickled radish works amazingly well for preserving, Almost everything about them is edible, leaves, radish ball root, seed pods and the seeds can be ground themselves as well as sprouted with ease
While having been grown globally since the time of Egyptian and Roman times and most likely before that, it is a outstanding plant that can be grown in cooler climates to great success! Time to explore its many choices and add some new types to your garden plans!
Globally Radish can be grown for their roots, for their seed oil, for their green tops, they come in many different colors, sizes ranging from tiny to the size of basketballs. They are a powerhouse of a food!
A half-cup serving of raw radish slices (about 58 grams)
Calories: 9.3
Total Carbohydrates: 2 g
Fiber: 0.9 g
Sugar: 1.1 g
Total Fat: 0.1 g
Saturated Fat: 0.02 g
Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.03 g
Monounsaturated Fat: 0.01 g
Trans Fat: 0 g
Protein: 0.4 g
Sodium: 22.6 mg (1% DV*)
Vitamin C: 8.6 mg (10% DV)
Folate: 14.5 mcg (4% DV)
Potassium: 135 mg (3% DV)
*Daily Value: Percentages are based on a diet of 2,000 calories a day.
What types of Radish are you growing this year? Do you eat Radishes regular in your meals? Do you eat them fresh? Fermented? Pickled? Roasted? What is your favorite type? Do you only eat summer types or do also use winter type? What is your favorite way to eat them?
The events globally over the past week will be felt in ever widening ripples and one of them will be food costs, last year i was able to pick up a good load of smaller straw bales, the mini kind perfect for the porches for Halloween in town and the standard kind for the farm use. I was thrilled to find a new supplier that is just up the road a bit, close enough for him to swing by and drop the wagon off and leave it overnight for us to unload etc. I knew that with the new land we turned last year being as poorly as it was that I needed extra straw for the garden, as well as having double load’s of wood mulch dropped off
Weather got a touch wonky, and has decided to give us a week of false spring, sap is running hard and it rained, a lot.. we didn’t get the worse of it but we still got a good amount and our best house side micro climate was fully melted out when we woke this morning.. there are four plus feet of snow still covering all the kitchen garden beds and areas.
While i am not a big clean up the yard in the spring to early as i know that lots of things can be overwintering, everything that was raked up was moved to a area to the side so it still has a chance at least of hatching etc., the space got raked out and we made temp straw bale walled microclimates Straw bales used in wall insulation have a R value of 30 to 35 but this will be less do to the way they are being used but they are still going to be very helpful!
What we are calling Block #2 will have a u shaped pea vine climber on the back wall and two bale sides, i will add in fresh garden soil around 4 to 6 inches to start the earliest of peas, a row of radish will be placed in front of the peas in a u shape as well, the front row of this bed will be filled with Winter Sow jugs to help grow spring seedlings for transplanting, giving us both a head start on those transplants and saving room in our indoor growing sets ups The ground still needs to thaw some to get the tines fully down but we have a couple days coming of plus 10c and i am sure by the end of it they will be down where we want them, we will NOT be planting these out till after the next cold snap
Block #1 will have a cover made to place over to trap the heat in much more then Block #2 This block will have soil blend added at a depth of 6 inches and will be planted into radish, salad micro greens and beets and depending on what the night time temps look like, some of our started smaller lettuce greens might be possible or will be certainly added by the end of march. This set up will allow us to plant and grow March/April and depending even into early may while we get the kitchen garden prepped and ready for cool season planting and growing.
As you can see we have a rain barrel set up at the end and so ideally i will be able to use rain water when possible. These will be very tightly planted and as things get taken out for fresh eating,
Pipsqueak was watching carefully and ready to give a helping paw lol, i expect these warm bales will be a purr pride magnet for naps when the weather is fine, but we will see as they do love sleeping on the hay.
Hubby and i are still in talks about what will be placed over the top, I expect it will be a sheet of plastic stapled to either 2 by 2 or larger branches cut from norway maples that have been coppiced and have very nice long poles ready to be cut and used in the garden in multiple ways this year to create a lighter weight plastic top but if the cats are going to like it enough, then maybe we will use one of our sheets of plexiglass instead so its quite solid
Once these are done, we will be able to pull them apart easily and use the straw in the gardens as it was intended for mulch this year.
Do you have a heat sink that warms faster? Consider looking around to see what you might be able to find to create a faster producing micro zone for your kitchen and your plate, grow for speed, grow for calories and grow for micro nutrients. When it comes to super early spring production like this, you are growing for micro greens, eat your thinning’s for the beets and radishes, roast the radish as well as eat them fresh an spring sweet, eat your beets as tiny wee ones , remember everything other then roots are edible on your peas, greens, flowers and of course the pods.
This is very much grow what your family will eat, do not try new things in these spaces, grow for your plate and crowd those spaces, you are not going to grow these to full size, you do not need full size spacing, look to square foot garden spacing, I will share details on the plantings, what it cost me in seed, and what i got in harvest vs what that would cost me in my local stores.. right now a small bag of radish, that has around 8 average size radish is $6 dollars.. I just stood there and stared, shook my head and walked away and that was last week price points.
Farmgal Tip, get your fertilizer now! maybe get a big bag or two enough for say two or three or five years, put it in a safe dry space.
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