Wednesday, August 21, 2013

I have been watching the weather and I am getting excited to see the temps are changing and the days are starting to get shorter. You know what that means, cooler weather  and the beautiful colors of fall are near!

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 With this change means work when you live on a farm. We have been busy planting the fall garden, cucumbers were in the ground 2 weeks ago. With 108 plants I sure hope to be swimming in pickles all winter! We are also going to be planting Broccoli and cauliflower. I will be changing up how I keep them protected over the winter months this year.
 
 
This is how we did it last year. It works pretty good unless you live in East Texas when during the winter you may run your Air conditioner during the day and the stove at night. Without being able to totally remove the plastic almost daily it was sad to say but they pretty much burned up in there.
 
                                                             (not my picture)
 
This year we will be trying this one instead! I already have the list of things I need to get along with a new watering system I will install on this one.
 
It is also the time of year to be thinking about fire wood! Wow how I hate that word during the summer but sure love it during the winter when we are nice and warm and don't have the huge electric bills for the furnace. We have lived in East Texas for over 10 years and we have not used a furnace since we moved here. Every house we have lived in has had a wood burning stove.

2 comments:

  1. It's hard to tell by the picture exactly how they made the plastic greenhouse. I wondered if you had a link where it's explained? We had frost for over a week and so we need to figure out how to keep things safe next year.

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  2. Georgene G. Here is a link to the article for you to read. http://www.farmshow.com/view_articles.php?a_id=1486

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