Farmland tales - The Passion Fruit House

Nov -week 3 :Tiny Farm Large Life gets a passion fruit house 

Or I should say almost. This weekend I visited the farm after a gasp of two whole weeks. The rain and my work travel had made it really difficult to make it to the farm.

A couple of weeks back I had planted passion fruit plants. At that time I had only given those tiny plants temporary support. But passion fruit plants can grow 5-8 feet and a good support. So instead of regular trellis I decided on making a cozy Passion fruit shed.

We bought some wood from the wood seller close to the farm and got my husband to start working on the structure. This is what we ended up making

Someday hopefully once the Passion fruit creepers have gown and cover the entire structure it would be a prettier site. Until then .... it’s a big dream on our tiny farm. 

So while my husband was digging and tying the wooden pieces to get the structure into place I went about my rock collection. Unfortunately we have a lot of rocks on our tiny farm but I am trying to make full use of them. So started of making my little pathway. 

It’s not anywhere even close to done ... infact just started off now. But hopefully as we go along,  my pathways will get some more structure. This weekend our guava plant also surprised us with beautiful white blossoms. Though I know it’s too early for the plant to bloom.... I just couldn’t help feeling happy. Maybe next week when I come back here I’ll pluck the flowers and let the plant spend its energy on growing rather than blossoming so early. But for today it stays.

Another surprise was this weed I found growing . I don’t know it’s name but it was beautiful 

If anyone knows it’s name please do let me know . 

Farmland Tales- It’s not a bed of roses always

Germination Blues- Tiny Farm Large Life

It’s not a happy picture always and sure it’s not one around my germination kits. This time across all my seedlings .... I have had only one germination per plant type !!!!! How does one explain that ....hmmm!!!!

And all from different seeds . And I have always had almost 70% germination success.

You can see in the image up there is only one Lemon Balm guy peeking its head out, one Lavender, one marigold, one Calendula !!! The only 1 I am happy with ... so far ... is the one creeper rose 🥀 that’s sprouted. I have never germinated a rose plant from a seed ever before and didn’t think I would see any joy. So this time just to try it out I sowed two creeper rose seeds and one germinated. It took a good 3 weeks to finally burst open. But it’s still a wait and watch to see if that guy has the strength to continue growth.

So for me I need to restart the process of sowing my seeds again. Maybe this time I won’t directly sow them in loose cocopeat but will try the compact cocopeat coins which swell up when you add water to them. I order some from Biobloom online on Amazon.

Farmland Tales - Planning My Garden

Planning My Garden - At Tiny Farm Large Life 

At our tiny farm with dreams its now planning time. It takes a lot of planning when you are starting on your farm from ground zero. Planning your farm or planning your garden may sound easy but when you have an absolute open field, thoughts can run all over the place. It has been raining almost every day for the past two weeks and work at the farm is almost at standstill. Although the fruit trees I  have planted so far are quite happy with the rain the rest of the work will have to wait. I needed to get some raised beds done and my structure for the passion fruit plants I planted last week but I guess will need to wait for now.

So I decided to spend my time planning my garden and researching how I would like the layout to pan out. I had ordered some seeds last week which got delivered to be today.

Although I initially wanted to get some local seeds, I finally reconciled to ordering them online. It will be a wait and watch the game to see how good the germination is.

Earlier I had ordered some cherry tomato and Jalapeno seeds from Kraft via Amazon and got almost 100% germination. This time I have ordered some from All That Grows.

Since 50% of the cultivation is going to be flowers, I wanted to get started with the seedlings.
I am planning on a small vegetable garden which would be mainly for our consumption or maybe barter.

Seeds From All That Grows 

I got some grow bags and some more compost to start the germinations. So this week I sowed the seeds for Lemon balm, Marygold, and Calendula. 

This week also happened to be the Diwali week. And I had to light a little lamp at our tiny farm with big dreams. It truly is a tiny farm with big dreams.  

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