Goats 'n Gardens, The Garden Planner

04/20/2026

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04/14/2026

2 days old

04/14/2026

Muffin 2 days old

04/14/2026

🔥🪵Firewood now available! Message us today for pick up or delivery!
Camping season is upon us! Don't fret on splitting wood we will drop it ready for your campfire or whatever your needs may be!

04/13/2026

Just a few “Before & After” comparisons from a recent seasonal maintenance cleanup…

04/13/2026

Come along to tour a recent landscaping installation to see what it takes to maintain once the cold winter months give way to spring showers and sunshine.

04/13/2026

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Nine vegetables go directly into the ground right now in Zones 5-8 — no transplants, no indoor lights, no hardening off. Seed to soil. The window opened when soil hit 50°F and it closes when daytime temperatures regularly pass 80°F and these crops bolt instead of producing. 🌱

Waiting until May means a shorter harvest and a faster bolt.

Snap peas — germinate in 7 days and start climbing anything vertical within 3 weeks. Get them in now while nights are still cool. Peas stop setting pods in heat above 80°F, so every week of delay costs harvest time.

Beets — soak the seeds overnight and they emerge in 5 days. Each wrinkled beet seed is actually a cluster of seeds and usually produces multiple seedlings — thin to one per inch after germination.

Carrots — 14 days to emerge and worth the patience. One sowing produces three months of harvest. Seed them shallowly in deeply loosened soil and keep the surface moist until emergence, which is the part most people fail at.

Swiss chard — multi-harvest. Cut the outer leaves and the center keeps producing. Extremely forgiving plant that runs from spring through fall with minimal attention.

Lettuce — surface sow only. Lettuce seeds need light to germinate — pressing them onto moist soil and covering with anything blocks the signal they need. Don't bury them.

Radish — 25 days to harvest. Fastest return in the garden. Sow a new row every 10 days and you'll have continuous radishes through early summer.

Arugula — 21 days to first cut. Peppery flavor that intensifies as the plant matures. Scatter seed, rake lightly, and keep moist. Succession-sow every two weeks.

Turnips — roots and greens both harvest from the same plant. The thinnings are edible greens. Double harvest from one crop.

Dill — direct sow only. Dill hates transplanting and the roots don't recover from being moved. Sow where you want it, leave it there. The flower heads later in the season attract parasitic wasps that target hornworms and other caterpillar pests.

All nine prefer cool soil. The time is now. 🌿

04/12/2026

04/12/2026

2026 Kid log 4/11/26, #12. First freshener little Mama Sparky with some assistance has a healthy and happy Doeling. Mini Alpine (Mini Alpine dam x Nigerian Dwarf sire).