Photos From The Farm – Spring Is In Full Gear!
The snow is finally gone. The cold temperatures and frost warnings have gone away and the garden is in! Spring is in full swing at the farm – Finally!!! So we thought for today’s Sunday update – we would simply take a tour around the farm in photos – and let you see what is growing. We hope you enjoy!
Happy Gardening! Jim and Mary
Old World Garden Farms
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The Barn in the early morning sunlight
The first of the ornamental peppers in bloom – these are called Chili Chili
The Chives are in full bloom and a great addition to the herb garden
One of our favorite spots – the barn patio
Old Willie sits in the grass resting after a mow. He still runs like a top after 60+ years
One of our other favorite spots – the outdoor kitchen and upper pergola area
The girls are doing their early morning work of laying eggs – and not too happy about being interrupted for a picture.
The strawberries are forming – we should actually get a decent crop from them this year.
The old window we converted into our front address sign
The wegilia bushes are in full bloom
The blueberries are beginning to appear as well
The early morning sun begins to appear over the chicken coop
Its a bit early for the bees to be out at 6 am – but the hive will be buzzing in an hour or two with activity
The wave petunias in the front pots are just beginning to take off
In addition to our potatoes in our rows -we planted a few in our straw bale crates as well. They are all up and doing well
The little clusters of grapes are forming on the vines – this will be our first year to get a few from the vines!
We made these signs from 6 x 6 posts and left over 2×4 lumber – they line the driveway and hold planters or lanterns on the other side.
The crisp stalks of onions in the early morning dew.
A view up the hill from the back of the garden.
The grasses on the back of the hillside are really taking off now
the Brandywine tomatoes are ready to be tied to the stake a cage supports
The cabbage plants are looking healthy as well.
The upper pergola and the new grape vines starting to really take hold
Early morning at the farm
A little excitement at the farm – The local Fox/ABC station and morning show personality Dana Turtle visited this week and broadcast from the farm.
Dana poses for a picture with us.
We hope you enjoyed – Mary And Jim!
Old World Garden Farms 
First time I have read your blog. Love it and love your farm and pictures! Did anyone else notice that in the picture of the farm in early morning, if you look at the barn on the roof of the barn patio it looks like a replica of Tractor Willie on the roof…..or is there a small tractor up there? I just couldn’t tell for sure……interesting that is for sure. Can’t wait to visit again.
Susan
you for sharing your “dream in progress” with all of us. The pictures are beautiful and show us what a labor of love can accomplish! I look forward each week to see what you will be sharing. This past weekend we planted tomatoes using your post hole digger suggestion. We had help from our 2, 4, and 6 year old grandchildren. Grampy would dig the hole, followed by a grandchild measuring two teaspoons of coffee grinds and a tablespoon of crushed egg shells to each hole. I emailed you a few pictures of my helpers!
God bless you both for sharing your love and knowledge of gardening with us!
Margi Habegger
I love your story! So great to be passing it on to the grand kids and it sounds like it was a lot of fun! Loved the email and the pictures and thanks for sending!
Jim and Mary
Everything looks so beautiful. Reminds me what a long way we have to go with ours. Thanks for the update! –BJ http://www.sekulafamilyfarms.com
It wasn’t that long ago that I came across your site. The first thing that really impressed me was your attention to detail; from your buildings to your immaculate gardens and informative blogs. The second was your astute use of resources. More power to you. Your place is just beautiful and your example is truly powerful. Reading your blog makes me miss Ohio as I was born and raised there.
Thanks for the photos! Looks great! I really enjoy your posts! I’m a Master Gardener with the Wilson North Carolina Extension office. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much Linda – I am in North Carolina often for business – and such a beautiful state!
love following your blog – your pics are just beautiful – love from West Wales x
Thank you Jeannie – it never ceases to amaze me how far away some of our followers are! Greetings from Ohio
Great photos, you have a lot going for your group. Here in Sarasota, Florida. I have had my beans X4, with 24 bags frozen, the corn is about 5 feet high, onions are in, tomatoes are on the vine and getting red. I started in March. And there is no winter here so I garden all 12 months, no green houses. Be talking to you, Thxs for all your input, your doing a great job, keep up the good work. Bill
Bill – sounds like you have been hard at it! It is always such a great feeling to get things in the jar or freezer for later use! Continued success on the garden!
thanks for the gorgeous photos! I love the way everything is organized.
I am a master gardener in Atlanta and we are trying straw bale gardening for the second year.
Once our deer fencing is in place in our new location, we are going from raised beds to raised rows.
It’s hard to believe that your crops are not too much behind those in Georgia.
Rosanne
Beautiful photography! It makes me feel good to see someone else enjoy their little piece of nature as much as I do. 🙂 I look forward to your posts, and learn quite a bit about different options for gardening. Used your ‘wire stakes’ this year for my tomatoes. They work great, are simple to make, and are very cost effective. Thanks!
Thank you Carole – we really do love being and working out there! So glad the stakes worked out for you!
Hi Mary and Jim,
You are doing great compare to us. Our weather just change now and we are behind three weeks so you will enjoy fruits of your work first compare to us but don’t worry we share with you our fruits ok. Enjoyed your bees hives looks great keep up the good work.
Thank you so much! Although you are a few weeks behind – your garden will be in full swing before you know it!
You have a beautiful farm, loved the pictures. Thank you for sharing & teaching us how to garden.
Thank you so much Glenda!
Beautiful! You have a lovely farm and it’s off to a great start!
Thanks Heidi!
I love the design of the barn. We just purchased 6 acres in the Texas Hill Country northwest of Austin. Your place is my inspiration for an organic veggie garden and fruit orchard. Thanks for sharing.
Good morning Pat – you must be so excited to have your land! Good luck on building your own dream garden and farm!
We’re a little ahead of you here in the Atlanta area. Have picked a few of our “experimental” strawberries, as this is the first time the grandkids and I have grown them. Looking forward to our salsa garden putting forth soon. Thank you so much for sharing the lovely pictures. I love the one of the tractor. I can smell the sweet, fresh cut grass, one of my favorite spring/summer things. Thank your for all of your inspiration!
Sheila – I wish our strawberries were ready now :):) Good luck with your salsa garden – so neat you get ot share it all with your grandchildren!
Love all the photos! Congrats on the news program too, how exciting! Looks like the garden will give you lots of good food to eat and can this year! yay!!!
Thanks Bobbi! We are always so happy when the garden is in and we can start to see the fruits of the labor!
Beautuful…….beautiful…….looks like paradise in Ohio!!!!!! You guys should be so proud of all your hard work….it has certainly paid off!!!!!!
Thank you so much Mary Beth! We love being out there at the farm – so much that it never really seems like work! 🙂
Everything looks just beautiful. All of your hard work paying off. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you Kim!
Our garden is a little behind yours here in Southern Ontario although we have gotten everything in the ground now. We were able to watch your segment on the news and it was great! You two are doing a fantastic job getting people excited about fresh food and keeping things “green”.
Hi Jane! Thank you so much for all of your kind words! So glad you have everything in the ground – it has to be a good feeling! We are going to open up one of your bottles of wine to try today with our dinner when we cook out – can’t wait!
Very nice! Looks like the beginnings of a very bountiful harvest. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much David!