Seeds That Have Been Planted So Far

Alright, here is the list of seeds that we planted. Mostly tomato seeds and they are all heirlooms. We have others ordered from Park Seeds and Henry Fields, but are still waiting.

Heirlooms from TomatoFest that received a place to grow.
Argentina
Aussie
Black Zebra
Blue Ridge Mountain
Bull's Heart
Church
Cuostralee
Church (personal favorite)
Grandfather Ashlock
Carol Chyko's Big Paste
Dixie Golden Giant
Giant 11
Giant Belgium
Giant Oxheart
Green Giant
Ultimate Giant

Don't all of those sound just amazingly strange and beautiful? Well, the seeds are planted and now we are closely watching for that first sprig of green to pop through the soil.
Hope you have a wonderful day and of course we planted way too many of these so there might be a few plants to give away.

Seeds and the Garden

We planted seeds on Friday. We are starting Tomatoes from seed. It should be a very interesting year in our garden. Right now we have 24 different varieties of heirlooms planted. Many of those plants will be given away because we are also planting regular tomato plants. Here we are planting the seeds and prepping the garden to be planted in early May.

Seeds Have Been Ordered

The tomato seeds have been ordered, as have numerous other plants. It's a time of anticipation. Waiting. Patience. And yes, one order is on it's way. We received the confirmation today. Friday, this Friday, a great Friday, not Good Friday, but a great Friday, we will have seeds to plant. This year we ordered from several different places. We ordered from TomatoFest, Park Seeds and Henry Fields. Lots of heirlooms and many other tomatoes. Hopefully soon we will begin to plant, grow and maybe, just maybe give a few plants away.

Has Spring Sprung?

Any guesses as to what is growing up through the snow????

Chopping Wood

Here we are chopping wood at the Rilinger farm. What a blast it was!

To Dig or Not Dig

So our lovely, amazing, beautiful and brilliant puppy dog Rheau continues to dig. Now, when we picked her up a last April we knew she was a dog who liked to dig. We walked to the back yard to pick her up and she was digging. We never knew how much she liked to dig. Saturday when it was 70 degrees out (in February), I walked into the backyard and noticed that Rheau, had been digging up against the house behind the bushes. There are probably six holes there. That is now in addition to the eight holes in our back yard, plus the hole she dug that is deep enough and wide enough for her paws and head to get down in. So, yes, our dog is amazing, but geez Rheau, quit digging up the backyard!!!!!

Wedding Pics

Garden Update- Oct 11, 2008

Jeremy standing next to an Okra plant that is over 6 ft tall.

Wow, so we really feel amazingly blessed to have such a good year for our garden. The weather has been perfect. So here is where we are today.

Giant Belgium--29
Black Brandywhine--23
Old German--18
Pink Oxheart--47
Brandwhine-7
Jetstar--28
Valencia--36
Celebrity--19
1st Lady--55
Whopper--51
Jet Setter--22
Better Boy--34
Total Tom--369
Sweet Baby Girl Cherry Tom- 388
Yellow Pear Tom- 643
Okra- 176
Total Tomatoes given away 100+
Tomatoes lost to silly puppies, squirrels, rabbits and other critters- 75+
BLT's--50+ and no, bacon does not cause depression, it's causes great joy!

Looking forward to next year- Valencias, Whoppers, Giant Belgiums and Yellow Pear...not sure what else we will plant but it will probably be a few more heirlooms.

Favorite quick and easy recipe- Fried Okra (flour/cornmeal/milk) dipped in Chipotle Mayo. Wow, that was good.

And yes, we are still harvesting as long as the plants keep producing.

Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day on the farm was a wonderful few days of hard work, good food and being the in the quiet and peace of creation. The RV was a rental, was in pretty good shape and served us quite well. The airconditioner was a must in the 110 degree weather. The cabin is coming along. It's held up pretty well. As a rest from our labor, it was a perfect weekend. Church was great as was all the homecooked meals. We gave away all of our tomatoes and we came home to a new harvest of approximately 20+ more.

August 22nd Harvest Report

Giant Belgium-23, Black Brandywhine-18, Old German-11, Pink Oxheart-29, Red Brandywhine-7
Jestar-10, Valencia-15, Celebrity-19, 1st Lady-38, Whopper-32, Jet Setter-13, Better Boy-8
Total Tomatoes- 233
Sweet Baby Girl-256
Yellow Pear-235

Tomatoes given away--approximately 50+
BLT's- 22

We really liked the Whoppers and Giant Belgiums early season, now the Valencia and Old German are tasting the best. It's interesting what just a few short months of growing and interesting Missouri weather can do to a tomato.
The most interesting thing this past few weeks has been the absolutely crazy Okra crop we have seen. We may be fighting squash beatles and have ony 3 zuccinni to our name, but those Okra are growing like crazy. We have harvested 66 Okra 9 plants, and there are probably another 20 ready to be picked! Wow. It's been a wonderful year to garden.