The Garden: The garden is growing and producing, yay!! I've made 2 salads with homegrown lettuces, spinach, kale, and radishes. The greens are delicious and don't taste bitter, which I was a little worried about because the spinach has started to flower... But everything is looking good in my book. I also finally went out and weeded for about 2 hours yesterday and got most of the weeds under control.
Salad from dinner tonight!
I dug up another strip of garden and made it into 5 hills and planted pumpkins, buttenut squash, cucumbers, cantaloupe and watermelon. Alot of those need about 100 days to mature so we'll see if we even get anything because of the short growing season. Fingers crossed!
Blain in "the path" between the peas and kale - that big pine tree has got to go, it's making too much shade on the garden in the evening
First little head of broccoli
The tomatoes have survived transplanting and are starting to look a little bigger
The first planted peas all had flowers when we first got home last saturday, and now to second set have a couple flowers as well. Still no sign of peas but hopefully we get some bee visitors soon!
Front to back: Radishes (all are harvestable now), beets (still really really small), Onions (there are a few but still too small to pick), carrots, red romaine lettuce, butter crunch, spinach and kale. Broccoli on the right and cauliflower in the row to it's right. Working in the garden and seeing results makes me SO happy!
Nate and Blain working on digging post holes for the garden fence - I found new deer tracks through the beets and carrots yesterday so we really need to get that fence up
Chickens: We fixed the gates so the chickens can't get into the backyard anymore and they are just as happy hanging out on the woodpile, in the old coop and in the shade of the milkbarn. We also have a new head rooster, which may not be a good thing. Our big buff Orpington has fought his way to the top and is now in charge. The only problem is he doesn't seem to want little Deleware in the flock. He chases her out of the coop at dusk and even jumped down off the roost to chase her out when Nate put her in before closing the door. Hopefully it will all calm down in a couple days. Chicken Drama.
Babies: We are all missing Chloe but we still get to talk and facetime daily. She will be back on Sunday and we can't wait! Blain has gone back to his normal little self playing with sticks and anything long and skinny turning it into a sword (screw driver, roots, drum sticks).
Serious Blain with his "hurt knee" - we had spaghetti for dinner can you tell?
" I have to wear my scratcher" as he calls it - I guess Nate was playing with him the first time he wore it and Blain scratched his leg a little and asked "Is that your scratcher?" so now that's what it's called in his little mind.
I tried to get a picture of Avenlea doing her little nose scrunch and sniff that she does a lot when eating. It turned out kinda fuzzy but it was the best I could get with a squirmy baby. She also had her top left tooth pop through 2 days ago and has developed a "I'm hungry feed me more" grunt if I don't give her the next bite quick enough. I love getting to know her and see her little personality.
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