My girls and their coop

I go back to last October when I got my first batch of chickens only one day old and needing so much to stay alive. We raised eight named them all and of the batch I got one girl, the only one named a boys name. Fred became a lone chicken so off I went and decided to get her a flock. In March, I brought home 3 more and so far so good I have all girls. We introduced them slowly and Fred seem to except them as hers. This is good! The new girls names are Princess fluff butt, Stevie and Pooter. I chose all heavy breeds and layers. So as of now we have one New Hampshire red, two Buff orphingtons and one light brahma. I love having chickens, Fred has now started laying and is giving one egg a day. What a comical group they are together.

Mad vegetable skills

Ok! I am taking the leap, writing about my edible yard and how it is ever changing. Each day I go out I find that another perennial is being removed making room for more edibles. Today I am working my small space into big production. 120 sq ft total but boy is the food packed in, I find my mad vegetable growing skills working it.

Today I interplanted my peas with cucumber, my tomatoes with leafy, My peppers with spinach. Each using up different nutrients and keeping with the leaf to fruit, root to shoot crop rotation. This is quite the experiment but I think it is going to work. As the leafy is eaten up it will give way to the tomatoes to take over this area. A second planting of leafy is in another row. The peas will finish up about the time the cucumbers come on and the spinach will be gone as soon as the heat sets in giving way for the peppers to fully develop. I am still counting on the spring rains to do my watering, but can't wait for the summer heat to come on. Stay tuned to