I got the chance to plant a quick line of peas late last week that I am still waiting to see poke their little heads up. But other than that I have not planted any seeds outside yet but this evening I was finaly able to get one of the beds I had prepared earlier planted up. This evening I planted a 10 foot row of mixed radishes, a row of older spinach seed, a row of daikon radishes, a row of mache and a row of mesclun lettuce mix. I also planted a small bed of coriander.
I have also been weeding the garden beds and giving the dandelions and grass roots to the chickens. The girls love them and convert my weed problem into eggs and lovely chicken litter for the compost pile.
We also picked up some wonderful couches and a great chair second hand from Jess's folks over the Easter weekend. Our old couch pillows have already been added to the dogs bed and the old couches have been moved to the garage until I have a rainy day to start breaking them down to constituents for possible future use.
We have been seeing a warmer and drier spring so far this year so I have put out the first rain barrel to catch the pole barn run off. I have big dreams of completely re-roofing the pole barn and adding a 500 gal sump but for now a 100 gal watering trough is a good start.
All this and I still need to get ready for the ducks to arrive on the 19th.
So much to do. So much to do!
2 comments:
Ah, spring! Gotta love it!
Keep us informed on how the ducks work out. I have given some thought to turkeys. But only some thought
Will do. Jo. I figure if you have some woods to fence off turkeys could be almost self raising. The wild ones are practically a menace in the burbs these days. I suspect they will have to start actively hunting the suburbs soon or just except it when the coyotes and wolves move in after the plentiful food supply.
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