It's finally raining today, and we're forecasted to get 1-2". It's been a few weeks since it has rained at all. The pool under the culvert was the lowest I've ever seen it (and it has fresh bobcat tracks in the soft bottom mud).
I'm hoping the rain will make the graas spring back up and I can rotate the geese onto areas they've been previously. So far they haven't overlapped at all but I'm running out of space.
As always, I'm finding it hard to keep up on posting stuff here, so I'm going to try something different. I'm hoping that going forward, I will use this space more as a journal or a log of what's happening and I'm not going to worry about trying to post pretty pictures with news of what's happening here. There will still be pictures, but I'm thinking I'll write more brief, descriptive posts.
With that said, we're a week into August, and it's been dry. The grass is dormant, and I've been moving the geese every 2 days.
We lost a goose 2 weeks ago to what we think was a bobcat. Now we're keeping the fence electrified 24 hours a day.
A lot of our crops have failed this year for a few reasons. First, we're finding that the soil here is severely lacking in fertility. Also, a lot of it is basically sand and dries out really quickly, unlike the clay soils of our old garden at our apartment. Amongst those failures were all our corn, some beans, all our squash, amaranth, and quinoa. I'm concerned that the potatoes aren't doing much either.
We pulled our garlic and that seemed to do fine. I think we harvested it at the perfect time too. There is a bed of beans that is doing well and another of beets. Our bed of greens did well too- mustard, kale, and chard. And we have a volunteer pumpkin that is doing great.
We're shifting our focus now on building compost and increasing the fertility of our beds, and building more beds.
