Chicks' First Worms

 

Gave the baby chickens their first earthworms. They didn't know what to do with them.

Also planted a bunch of yellow dragon fruit seeds. Half of them in dirt half of them in wet paper towel. We'll see how they do.

 

 

Bulbs Coming Up

 

First time outside.

 

Brought one batch of the baby girls outside. Their first time out ever. 

 

They stayed huddled in a single mass for a while. After an hour, hour and a half, they began to explore a little bit. My lady gave them some shards of lettuce and of kale. 

 

They're sort of indifferent. Sampling it a little here and there, sampling the grass here and there. It's like it's a whole new experience.

I refer to these girls as my chicken starts.

 

Petunias & Romaine

 

D. Petunias & Romaine

Put three dwarf petunia starts into a hanging pot. Transferred a dozen or two Romaine starts into a raised bed.

And an update on how the rhubarb is doing. I'm kind of impressed with the rhubarb too.

 

 

     

Chard & Chicken Coop

 

Planted out the Swiss chard.

Also cleaned out the chicken coop, and spread the used chips and sawdust into the yard for composting.

 

Tomato Day

 

Planted tomatoes in the greenhouse bed.​

One Cherokee Carbon, one Oxheart. So far. Also got a white tomasol into a large pot for the year.

Pretty cool accomplishment, in my own mind anyway. I harvested the last two Cherokee carbon tomatoes from the plants from last summer, pulled those plants up, fertilized the soil with worm castings and some 5-5-5, and planted new tomato plants. I was without tomato plants for all of an hour.

 

 

Asparagus Is Showing Up

 

Boy is that delicious!

Replanted some obscure tomatoes. My lady likes the green ones. We've never tried the white ones. They are rumored to have a pretty mild flavor on them.

The word is that the potato sacks can go out three or four weeks before the last frost, which is about now. Put the Tater sacks out.

Planted the sprouted pea seeds today as well.