FarmerLotus

FarmerLotus, 11 months ago to random

From an afternoon picnic at a local lavender farm

#Bloomscrolling #lavender #medicinalHerbs #medicinalPlants #coloradoPhotographer

Image shows a row of blooming dark purple lavender next to another lighter variety. The lavender farm shown in the image grows over 20 varieties of this drought tolerant perennial plant. There is a tree in the background that is blurred and the rest of the landscape recedes into the distance as the edge of the farm slopes off into a valley.
Closeup of a culinary variety of lavender. Each flower spike is stiffly upright. The background is a blurry bokeh of some lighter colored cultivars which offers a nice contrast to the darker blue/purple buds in the foreground.
The rows of lavender alternate between different varieties with the darker, culinary variety in the foreground. The plants are trimmed back each year into gently rounded mounds to achieve this nice shape that also makes harvesting the blooms easier. The blooms are hand harvested at peak oil content with a sickle.

SmudgeTheInsultCat, 11 months ago to random

FarmerLotus, 1 year ago to random

Please people, I’m begging you, do not bury landscape fabric in your gardens!

It’s terrible for soil health and for all the organisms that live in the soil. Plus, it doesn’t really even prevent weeds that well because they just grow on top of it.

Signed, someone who is pulling up thousands of square feet of landscape fabric buried under gravel by the previous homeowners.

Just use mulch instead, pretty please.

#gardening #landscaping

FarmerLotus, 1 year ago to random

Don’t let anyone ever tell you that chickens aren’t tiny dinosaurs.

Found this lady insisting on sitting on some eggs today so I replaced the measly 2 she was sitting on with 9 fresh eggs I was saving to incubate. It’s her first attempt at motherhood so hopefully in ~21 days she’ll have some cute little chicks following her around.

#chickensOfMastodon #broodyChicken #wyandotte #homesteading

Broody Wyandotte chicken is attempting to warn me off from her nest with a very raptor like sound and extra ruffled feathers

FarmerLotus, 1 year ago to random

Spent the day doing garden bed prep and now I’m pooped.

I’m widening both the garden beds and furrows because I found them to be a bit too narrow last year. Reshaping the beds is a pain in the ass and a lot of work but hopefully this is the last time I need to do this and then next year I can just mulch and broadfork them so the bed prep will be much less of a pain in the ass going forward.

#gardening #permaculture #homesteading #drylandsFarming