Farm Schedule 2011

Farm Schedule 2010

January

  • Lavender - Cut and shaped all of the lavender
  • Trees - Bought 12 Blue Junipers and 20 Leyland Cyprus

Febuary

  • FRUIT TREES - {Pruned all fruit trees}
  • BEES - Ordered 2 more Packages of Bees

March

April

May

June

August

  • BEES - Requeened - 1 Hive fought it out and the new queen won - another hive made their own queen and is doing great.

September

  • BEES - HARVESTED HONEY- {I only got a half super of honey...strange}
  • DEER PROTECTION - Put up electric fence wire to protect against deer damage
  • APPLES - Picked apples but their seems top be very few this year - I still have another tree to pick WHich I will do at the end of the month.

October

November

December



Farm Schedule 2010

Farm Schedule 2010

January

  • FRUIT TREES - {Pruned all fruit trees}

Febuary

March

April

May

  • BEES - Requeened on May 15th
  • LAVENDER - {Mowed & Weeded lavender and trimmed a few plants but not all of them - Starting to send up flowers May 10th}
  • GRAPES - {Mowed and weeded the Grapes}
  • The leaves are on the trees and there looks to be a lot of Asian Pears and plums!!!

June

August

September

October

November

December


Farm Schedule 2009

January

Febuary

March

  • FRUIT TREES - {Pruned all fruit trees}

April

  • HOPS - {Bought/planted Hop Rhizomes, cleared away dead vines from last year}
  • GRAPES - {Bought Grapes (3306 rootstock)}
  • BEES - {Still feeding but switched to 1:1 ratio}

May

  • BEES - {Stopped feeding the bees - Added two more 3 lb packages of Italian bees to replace two hives}
  • LAVENDER - {Weeded lavender and trimmed a few plants but not all of them}
  • GRAPES - {Planted the grapes}
  • The leaves are on the trees!!!

June

August

  • Harvested 3 lbs of Light Honey (Blackberry/Fireweed)

September

  • Labor Day - Cut the last of the Lavender (Only good for bee smoke)
  • Picked a lot of Plums
  • Kept a light water spray in the Orchard
  • Picked the Hops

October

  • APPLES - Picked the apples over the month and kept them in bags for a month before milling them into cider.

November

  • APPLES - Made cider on the 2nd. They sat for a month and some of them were slightly soft but the cider was sweet and did not seem to oxidize brown but stayed close to the color it was when it was pressed. Most of the cider came for the Golden Delicious apples.

December


Farm Schedule 2008

January

Febuary

March

  • FRUIT TREES - {Pruned all fruit trees}
  • HOPS - {Bought/planted Hop Rhizomes}

April

  • GRAPES - {Transplanted Concord Grapes into containers}
  • BEES - {Bought Italian Honeybees and installed April 18 - snowed!}
May

June

  • LAVENDER - { Folgate was the first to bloom in the 3rd week}

July

  • LAVENDER - {July 13th the Lavender was in full bloom - July 27th Cutting and hanging}

August

  • LAVENDER - { Still cutting and drying}

September

  • LAVENDER - {September 21 cut the last of the lavender}

October

  • APPLES - {Picked and stored the apples in containers for 3 weeks while in Tokyo, Pressed the apples and made Cider on the 25th}

November

December


Farm Schedule 2007

January

Febuary

March

  • FRUIT TREES - {Pruned all fruit trees}

April

  • Lavender - {Pruned the lavender April 7th}

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December


Farm Schedule 2006

January

Febuary

March

April

May

June

  • Lavender - {Made the rows and planted Lavender}

July

August

September

October

November

December