The Goltz’s were the First on my Farm, Some of the old timers have told me some great stories, There was alot of old Farm Machines left behide, here is one of them, Made by the Waterloo corp. from Waterloo Ontario. This is a Picture of a Thrashing Mill. It is all wood! except for the wheels and few other parts. This Machine dates back to the 1920’s, The machine was bought by the Goltz’s and was used into the 1970’s. At the time the late(1990) young Albert Goltz a son, of Mr Gus Goltz, would thrash all the grain for all the farms around for miles, I was told Albert would be gone for up to 3 months at a time. the Thrashing Mill was operated with a steam engine till about 1945. After a tractor with a belt pully was able to run the machine.
Next we have a picture of a tiger-swallowtail butterfly
Here we have a picture taken from a ridge top looking down on one of our fields in Autumn with the colour of the changing leaves
And finally we have a picture of 2 Gelbvieh calves raised by us here! the calf on the right has went on to be a Herd breeding bull, the heifer on the left has been sold to a friend of mine along with her mother, They are both gone to a great home..
Written by Jeff on September 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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This is the final post about my Giant Sunflower, It is NO LONGER standing..
Well, The Sunflower made it to an outstanding height of 11 feet!! I think that is GREAT for having a 120 day growing season in northern Ontario. I am sure the Worm Castings helped out alot in that area to get the sunflower to that height.
The head of the Sunflower did not fully develop,
I did manage to dry the head of the Sunflower and get some seeds for next year. At that point maybe we can do this again, (it has been fun)
update #1
update #2
update #3
Written by Jeff on September 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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Well , its a little more then a week since my last post on the Giant Sunflowers Growth. But it was worth the wait. This week the flower is coming on the plant, and it is now 10 feet and 10 inchs TALL.
I am sure the plant is not going to get any taller, but lets see if the plant will be able to remain standing with the weight of the very big Sunflower head that is going to grow on this plant in the next couple of weeks. now from guessing how tall this plant will get, now we can guess the weight of the finished sunflower head.
Till next time!!
Giant Sunflower #1
Giant Sunflower Update #2
Jeff
Written by Jeff on August 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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Here is an UPDATE on my Giant Sunflower, if you recall last weeks post where the sunflower was 8.5 feet tall.
We are having a little fun with this post WOW! I wonder how tall this plant will get too!
Check back again next week! so far we have a foot (12″) of grow per week,
Jeff
Written by Jeff on August 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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This is going to be a whole new part of the FriendlyWormGuy website
(Seasonal Pictures From The FriendlyWormGuy Farm)
We live in Northern Ontario Canada, In our opinion the most wonderful place in Ontario, From fishing in the hundreds of lakes and rivers in our area, to snowmobling, skiing, skating to the change in season to Spring when all comes back to life again. Our farm is 160 acres or .5 mile by .5 mile square in size, We have a wonderland full of great pictures,
I am going to start with some pictures taken here this week, from scary clouds to a wonderful rainbow.
It is so dark!! this was taken late afternoon
Now to some of the wonderful pics after the clouds moved on a little.
This is the reason, our area is called Rainbow Country
For those of you readers that like to look at some great pictures, from flower pics in summer to winter pics, and the other great pics we are able to catch on this wonderful farm of ours, check back regularly to see more great pictures.
Hope you enjoy this part of the website as much as we do.
Jeff and Lorie.
Written by Jeff on August 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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Thinking of some fun stuff to do, I decided it was time to start tracking the growth of our GIANT SUNFLOWER,
My mother (Suzanne) and myself standing beside the 8.5′ Giant Sunflower.
In the last week this Sunflower has took off like crazy! So it was time to start tracking the growth of this Sunflower, Yes it is being fertilized with Worm Castings. Today I got the tape out, 8.5′ tall, the flower has not started to develop yet, and we still have alot of growing season. Who knows, this thing could hit 12-14′ we’ll have to wait and see!!
I will update again in a week! please follow this post, it is going to be fun!
Jeff
Written by Jeff on August 6th, 2008 with 3 comments.
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