Spring is in the air today and I am loving it.
The horses blankets are off,
the trees have buds
and the chickens are laying more eggs again.
Speaking of chickens… we’ve enjoyed this first year of
chicken keeping so much that I’ve decided to expand my
flock just alittle. I can’t add too many, as the size of coop
and run per chicken is important for their well being. I’m not hatching chicks this year,
although I loved the experience… because I don’t have a way to
separate them in the coop from the adults, who are now a year old.
The bigs would pick on the littles, and that’s just not happening here.
So.. I found a local who raises chicks for others and then sells them
as “pullets”.. or young laying hens. He is ordering six for me..
two speckled sussex, two sicilian buttercups, and two white leghorns.
Our adventure into chicken raising and organic egg eating
has been a pleasure. If you’ve got the room and have considered
keeping chickens, I highly recommend it, as they are easy to
keep and the quality and taste of the eggs is unbeatable.
Certainly better than what you get in the grocery store.
Mike has been debating what he might change in the vegetable gardens
this year. Last year we learned what’s happy in our plots,
what’s very difficult to grow, and what we grew too much of that
wasn’t eaten by us or sold at the farm stand.
Corn, cukes, squah, onions and especially tomatoes will always be a big hit.
Melons were difficult, but we love them – soil needs to be enhanced.
Butternut squash…grew prolifically, we don’t like it and we didn’t sell much on the stand.
In the perennial gardens, a lot was planted toward the end of last year around the backyard
borders. I’m curious to see what will come up and thrive this year.
I know one thing… Zinnias will be planted in abundance.
I was truly amazed at how much flower power we got from our one little bunch.
I plan to expand that patch tenfold.
Normally all images are mine. Today I’m using googled images as reference.
Great blog I read about in Martha Stewart Living…gardening a small plot in the city.
..and travel! My kind of blog.
