Lee Drennen’s Hobby Farm & Garden

[rtfoe]

Lovely garden Lee.
I like the smell of tomato bushes...did a photoshoot for our client Yeo's in a tomato farm once one early morning. You can't get ripe tomatoes with the five star ends near the stalk as they dry and curl so it had to be rigged. The sun dries the dew very quickly so that had to be rigged too but I could never forget the fresh smell of the leaves.
I've got a concrete garden so no farming...only potted plants.
Pickles...we like ours sweet here...papayas, mango, ambras, nut meg and onions.

Cheers,
Richard

[Lee Drennen]

Richard. Thanks for the complement my wife make Hot pickles sometimes with jalapeño peppers

[Lee Drennen]

Nothing like Fresh eggs and veggies. Just picked these this evening and gathered the eggs

[Mini Me]

Lee, good to see those Hens are earning their keep......would be awful if they were just hanging around looking for their next meal and a stimulus check! :tongue-out3: All in all, it looks like you have the veggie part covered. Now lets talk about some Angus beef........a nice fresh cut Ribeye steak would go really well with all those greens and eggs!

Rick H.

[Lee Drennen]

John. I’m sorry I missed replying to your comment. Yes I love it here I want to live out the rest of my days here on my small farm it’s so peaceful always a great place to get your thoughts together

Rick. Thanks for the complement those chickens know there’s no unemployment check here you work or you leave. I had cattle years ago I will post them some day here. With my arthritis I’m afraid I couldn’t get out of a bad situation with one of them if it happened maybe a few goats next year

[Mini Me]

Never had a goat steak Lee..........are they any good?
Rick H.

[JR]

Never had a goat steak Lee..........are they any good?
Rick H.

A bit tough I would think Rick.

[Jim R]

Hi Lee

Nothing like Fresh eggs and veggies. Just picked these this evening and gathered the eggs

Now that will taste good.
Goats are great. We had a mate in Scotland who kept a few small goats. Really pretty and friendly and clever. We occasionally buy goat meat from a local market. Expensive and rather like a mature lamb - like mutton I suppose. I do like goats cheese.
Like john said I enjoy your updates.
Jim

[Lee Drennen]

Jim. I’ve never ate goat lot of people around here do though I just want them as pets just two I have goat a long time ago and yes they are clever. The fresh veggies is only thing I like about summer

[Lee Drennen]

Well today is the first day of Autumn on the Hobby Farm. It’s a bitter sweet time finally the hot humid weather is just about over but the garden is dying in or more fresh vegetables. This is the last of my Tomatoes from the garden. As I went for my daily walk after work I stopped and took a picture of a Flower called Golden Rod. When I see this and the Persimmons start to fall.

[boatman]

Lee just looked right through your thread an me an jen enjoyed it an as you say you have a little bit of heaven where you live nice one as we live out in the sticks but right next to a main rd so no animals about at all an i miss them as when we lived in our old house well off the rds we had all sorts of animals an birds but here no an its just static when we sit out in our garden about the only things that visit us is wasps an hornets an i dont want them about some time we see a few dragon flys where jen has a little pond an they hatch out from the pond but thats all enjoy where you live as its where we would like to be
chris an jen

[Lee Drennen]

Well Garden season is over for me I’m satisfied with the yield I got from it this year. Time to clear it off and till it and wait for spring

[Lee Drennen]

My Chickens I got last Spring are Laying eggs now. I get around 6-7 eggs a day. Here’s a pic of some I took the other day and when I got them last Spring

[monica]

wow they grow up fast nice looking lot as well,good help in the garden as well, :smiling:

[Lee Drennen]

Monica. Thanks I enjoy raising them been doing it for over 25 years now.