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[thestudentfarmer]

4.13.2026

Hello hello :)

Garden update today 😀

The free ball patch has been cleaned up and out of all the dead and dying

Looks very need now, I added 2 bhsofcompost an threwouta variety of random seeds. Good luck to the seeds! Ive left some flowers so I can get abitmore seed from them and some what I cutrentlybelueve us mullien starts (I want the leaves for herbal tea and for smoking purposes)

The tomato doesn't seem to be growing all that much, nor are the peppers. im hoping it's a plant issue, rather than bed issue.

Also direct seededsome zuchinni seeds here, though i have yet to see growth.

Some of the Easter egg rafishs are growing, ill likely be leaving most of them to go to seed toreplenish the bag that was lost.

Green onion still flowering throughout the garden

Corn and replanted area. I see 1 lil stalk starting 🥳

Thy grass grew back fast. If the corn cant or grows in Poorly i may do corn transplants with the next batch, just to see if I can.

The other batch of radish is flowering more and has started developing pods

Ill be collecting these pods. I am not yet sure what ill be replacing the radish with yet when the time comes.

Thr chard got a serious trim and bounced back fast!

I was hoping the trim would force more bolting,but it didn't yet. The chickens will continue to enjoy more chard once a week for awhile longer

A close up of one of the 2 chards which is getting ready to seed

Last but not least, the carrots.

Couple are getting ready to flower, if ive time i intend to going and thin out/harvest som of these carrots and just let a few go to flower and seed.

In addition i direct seeded some melons in oneif the beds and bush type beans in another.

Sadly the chayote squash is planted kicked the can, but one inside has sprouted by accident, so thy will be planted soon

Got some seeds started for transplants

Pear tomatos

Louffa

Watermelon

Tobacco

Zuchinni

Armenian cucumbers

Bird gourds

Okra

At the moment, as well ive slowly been getting the back garden into some sort of order. Updates to come when its a bit more ordered.

And i believe thats it for the current update

Thanks for stopping by :)

🌱🐝Happy Gardening 🐝🌱

[thestudentfarmer]

2.15.2026

Went to get some green onions from the garden and found a couple of super big and thick ones 👀👀 just had to share them cause I was startled how big they got!

Like that stalk is huge!

If you cant read the spoon thats a tablespoon for size comparison

I used them for dinner (baked cheese potato cassarole with Mexican seasoned beef), a crockpot of pozole and i still have a 1/2 pint sliced in the fridge just from the greens. (Probably will use for omlettes, or burritos)

The stalks i think ill be slicing and freezing for quick use or saving for soup stock next week.

Anyways just wanted to share these ginormous beauties 🌱

🌱🧅 Happy Homesteading and Gardening 🧅🌱

[thestudentfarmer]

11.18.2025

Hello hello, time for a little garden update!

First up. The freeball patch 🌱 as soon as the weather is less drizzly out, I need to get in here and thin out/weed a bit

From the back side

From the front

Peas next

No blooms yet, though im hoping we shall see some soon

The breakfast radish

This is the bed made of the old bookshelf, I cleaned out one side as id like to plant some rainbow radish :)

Rat tail radish

Im starting to see a few lil pods, hoping the birds wont help themselves before we get a few.

Sunchokes

The flowers on this one didn't seem to last very long :( when the shrubbery bit dies back im gonna dig them up and likely just replant them for now.

Corns next

There's some ears now!! :D ill be harvesting and replanting soon

New green onion patch, just a few lil sprigs popping up yet. The weeds here will go to chicken salad soon :)

The old green onion patch, I trimmed about half of them for now.

Chard that self seeded 🌱

I cant put any more pictures but the cucumbers are doing well. Ive harvested o believe 10 more since the last post. Half i gifted away and I swe plenty more getting ready to come in.

The broccoli is seed started, about half have sprouted. Soon as their a bit bigger ill be transplanting them.

In addition i got to visit a seed program recently and got a lot of lovely seed, update on what I'll be planting (di tree with seeding and starting) soon.

Thats it for now

🌳🌱Happy Gardening and homesteading 🌱🌳

[thestudentfarmer]

10-22-2025

Hello hello~

Garden update!

The weather is finally cooling down enough I can be outdoors a bit more 🥳

So as long as im able to healthwise i will be gardening as often as possible 🌱

The cucumbers that self seeded, there are now 3 cucumbers growing in there 🌱

This chard also self seeded, im letting it grow for now until my broccoli starts get rolling. Once their big enough for transplants these will go.

The corn thats grown so far, there is 2 seperaye seedings here. I will soon be planting a third as I want to see how long throughout the winter here in zone 9a-10b will allow me to do so. Im pushing this year lol

The rat tail radishs, strangely enough I haven't seen much branching this grow. Just the root has been growing massively.

The breakfast radishs, I've gotten 5 harvests (I usually pull 6-15 at a time) so far. I think i will be leaving some to go to seed again. It was kind of a pain to collect the seed but absolutely worth it long run.

The front "free ball" seeding bed. Im seeing some okra sprouts, purple basil, what im hoping is mullien but might be one of the flowers and some leftovers from the lambs quarter (which i will be pulling with extreme prejudice as soon as they get a few inches tall)

The peas are finally sprouting!! And im not sure but there might be a cucumber there too, im just kinda letting it go for now but will be trimming it hardcore to see just how much trimming and shaping the armenian cucumbers can take.

Ive also started some broccoli seed starts, hoping to ahve time this week to get some other stuff, like peppers and tomatos started.

We also had a visitor! Its been quite some time since we've seen a red tailed hawk. This one came to visit twice while I was hanging out laundry to dry.

That's it for todays update :)

🌱🦋Happy gardening and homesteading!🦋🌱

[thestudentfarmer]

11.22.2024

I got around to doing some soapmaking last night, finally! :)

Made 1 batch of shampoo bars and 1 batch of soap bars.

Rosemary mint shampoo bars. I want to see if I like the hand feel of the smaller bars compared to the donut size.

Made some larger size ones too.

I'll clean them up later once they've cooled and set. I let it go to trace a little too thick because I didn't have the molds set up proper before hand and panicked a bit haha

Almost castile soap bars (olive oil, castor oil) i added in some red mica soap coloring.

As well, Thought I'd share a small update on the shampoo bars themselves,

This is what's currently left of the first batch i made, I quite like it so far and am at this time planning to fully switch permanently. Switching again to bar was a bit weird cause most other shampoo bars have really dried out my hair Within a fairly short time.

This so far hasn't done that. There's still that weird feel between wet to dry, but once dry, hairs nice and soft. Not to snarly and is managable.

I did stop using the conditioner bar, it is nice on occasion but not quite manageable with my hair type. Made my hair brush very very linty and my hair more snarled the day after even with rebrushing and braiding the night before. I did find i liked the conditioner bar a lot for dry cracked winter skin so I suppose that's a win and a future gift idea.

Bonus, I've been able to work on some quilt repair the last couple weeks.

i like to use blue thread and scraps to repair quilts.

Its been a bit challenging doing this by machine, but it has gone by a lot faster than by hand. So for now, I'll keep rolling with it :) after this repair work is done i intend to start binding the next quilt I'm working on.

Thanks for stopping by!

🧼 🌱 Happy Homesteading and Skill working 🌱 🧼

[thestudentfarmer]

12.15.2024

This month is zipping very quickly!

The tomato has perked up and started producing some fruit

The peppers are kinda eh, they'll have nothing then a decent flush.

Some radishs.

Carrot reseed (no sprouts yet) and far end a yellow squash

I'm leaving the weed to grow a bit bigger. I'll be picking them for salad for the chickens

Other side of the row, with the squash plant in view :)

Sunflowers, chard and far end sunflowers again.

Chard close up.

Peas coming in. And carrots I'm leaving to go to seed

Flowers to seed of the carrots :)

And it's taken a year, but i finished the jackets i started last year! Had to stitch rip the zipper in both at leats once, but i learned a lot.

That's it for now!

🌱🎶Happy Homesteading and Making🎶🌱

[thestudentfarmer]

Wish me luck everyone, it's been since 2020, but I'll be making soap this week~

Pics to come as it gets done :)