Double Header: Garden Notes and Baby Goats
Monday, March 31, 2025 5:43
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I reckon I’d better start with the baby goats. 
Of my two pregnant does, Saluda was first. Last Wednesday she wasn’t behaving like herself, so I penned her up before lunch. It was a good thing because right after lunch Dan went out while I did the dishes. He was back in a couple of minutes to tell me the first one was already on the ground. The second (the little doe) was out about 15 minutes after I got there.
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| About an hour old. The gray is a little buck, the brown is a little girl. |
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| One day old |
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| Buckling |
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| Doeling |
These are Saluda’s first and she took right to mothering.
Garden Notes: March 2025
Rainfall
- 5th: 0.55″
- 10th: 0.77″
- 16th: 0.7″
- 20th: sprinkle
- 24th: 0.03″
- 30th: 0.55″
- 31st: ???
- Total: 2.6 inches so far
Temperature
- range of nighttime lows: 28 to 59°F (-2 to 15°C)
- range of daytime highs: 51 to 79°F (11 to 26°C)
Planted
- daikons
- turnips
- lettuce
- parsnips
- carrots
- beets
- sweet pepper starts
- cucumber starts
- fig trees
- herb starter tray
- parsley
- dill
- comfrey
- gravel root
- red poppy
- sweet basil
Harvested
- lettuce
- chickweed
- wild lettuce
- chicory greens
- kale
- collards
- broccoli
- dandelion greens
- asparagus
Photos
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| The greenhouse gets quite warm on mild days, so the only things I’ve got in it now are tomato seedlings & bolting lettuce. |
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| My potted kale, collards, and new lettuce have been moved outside where they don’t mind light frost but don’t like how warm the greenhouse gets. |
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| My fall lettuce is bolting, but I planted new containers of mixed lettuces which are thriving. |
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| Also left in the greenhouse is my 2-year-old broccoli plant. It still produces enough broccoli bites for salads, plus I’ll save some seed. |
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| In the garden, the mustard in the kale & collards bed is flowering. |
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| Sugar peas and garlic. |
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| In the foreground is our hugelkultur mound. It’s loaded with clover, daffodils, chicory, and Egyptian walking onions. Behind to the right is our wheat patch. |
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| Pear blossoms |
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| Apple blossoms |
That’s it for me. Anything going on in your garden?
© March 2025 by Leigh at https://www.5acresandadream.com
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