Shovelbird Acres

05/27/2026

Need cabbage? The truck rolled in with 128 lb of tasty cabbage. Fresh from my garden to your table $3 to $6. Message to arrange meetup.

05/15/2026

05/13/2026

The almost 2” of rain last week saved the garden! Picking cabbage now. Onions be bulbing. Potatoes are hilled. Green beans are blooming. Tomatoes and peppers are alive!

04/29/2026

Immediately results from the rain!🌧️

04/26/2026

Gardening is for believers and gamblers. I believe in “normal” temperatures, and adequate rain. But this is not happening this year. We have gone through April with extreme heat, cold nights and no rain. It broke my heart to have to replace some tomatoes and ALL the bell pepper plants yesterday.
I do believe, I do…

04/22/2026

Tomatoes and pepper plants are struggling in this dry April. Assorted beans, cukes and yellow squash coming up. Watering just doesn’t replace rain…

But today’s adventure is BEETS! I bought 25 lb from Strickland Pride Produce in Crawford yesterday. (Yes, I have grown beets with limited success at times. Just didn’t plant any this year.)
The plan is to can these giants. Just hoping they are not tough. We shall find out.

04/11/2026

Corn on the left, cabbage on the right, Shovelbird Sweet red, white and yellow onions, red and white Irish potatoes shown in this garden view. There are 4 rows of green beans planted behind the barn. Now we just have to hope for rain….

03/15/2026

My planting season has commenced. The first picture showcases the majority of my 36 cabbage plants, while the second picture features 14 pounds of red and white potatoes accompanied by 800 red, yellow, and white onions. Although the produce may appear unimpressive at this stage, with the potatoes still underground and the onions in the sprouting phase, the yield from these relatively small plots is substantial.

02/24/2026

It was a warm balmy 24 degrees 🥶 here this morning but the flowers don’t seem to mind🥶

02/20/2026

Checked on my winter sowing project today.
The milk jug greenhouse filled up with rain water Sun. Three seed snails have baby plants. Two also got waterlogged.