It is a small garden but it will have to do this year. We will not be around much this summer so this will fun to have a few things coming up.
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MeatLovers Fest
Save the date and pass this on to your friends. Franchising opportunities are open for this year.
Winter Blues
Well you have heard of the winter blues in gardening. That is when you don’t get alot of production and there isn’t much you can do in the outdoor arena. These winter blues were nonexistant because we could still go out to the coop and pull out 4-5 eggs a day for the hen house.
But the blues came a knocking.
We got the official “you have chickens in our neighborhood and we are fining you” letter. (Note to all those yet to buy a house, make sure to read your homeowners bylaws if you have an association. Also assume that they will inforce them at anytime even if rules were not being inforced when you moved in.)
So the five laying hens, that have become pets to us, are gone along with my really nicely built coop. We did get to give the whole operation to great friend of the family and they will be able to have the ladies for awhile.
Winner winner chicken dinner
Oh yes it is true. The first egg of our journey. My parents came over for a minute and my mom wanted to see the girls. We spent some time out with them and before we left I opened the main door and there it was. Not in the box but on the floor.
Too little too late
What a weird year in the garden. Things just didn’t turn out like they should have. Well here is a picture of my cantaloupe that just decided to come out to play.
Carrots
In the picking season and carrots and peppers have been my two bumper crops. I didn’t plant theses in rows but scatter planted them. Pullithe small ones out during the summer and have been taking out the bigger ones now. Still have a bunch of medium sizes ready to get bigger. A couple of them were six inches long. While some were three inches in diameter. I blanched and froze these one.
Fat Charlie
I am not sure if I mentioned before…but we own a pig. Fat Charlie is his name and we are holding him at a friend. Can you guess which one he is.
Onions
Pulled my onion and garlic recently. Got about 60 onions and 20 heads of garlic. The taste is great. It is weird to see an empty raised bed in my backyard.
Trying to now decide if it was worth it to take up a whole bed for so long.
More peppers
125 peppers to add to the 75 we already harvested. More to come. I am going to dehydrate these.
Chickens are out
When we got home from Wisconsin we started to let our chickens out into the run for the day. We are growing a four of them for a friend so the hen-house is a bit small for them now that they are bigger. They have been loving it outside. Eating food out of our hand is still a favorite past time.
cool things about chickens is that they go to sleep at night without you telling them. The fist night they were in the run they started to next down on the ground so I got in the pen and helped them to go up the run. The second night the white Amerucana tried to round them up the steps and one didn’t want to go. I help her up via the outside door. This was a mistake, because the next night she was clueless of what to do. So I got inside the cage and put her in the right door.
Now like clockwork I go outside at 9pm and they are already inside the house waiting for my to close the door to the run. One night I was out late and wondering if they would stay in the house with the door open or not. I got home at 10 and they were asleep. Good chicks!
This whiter one is ring leader
