Hello family and friends,
I hope that you are all doing well. It is definitely feeling like spring these days. The daytime temperatures are increasing, the days are getting longer and we are having more sunny days.
It won’t be long now and we will be out in just t-shirts and then tank shirts and shorts♡. I actually think that it has been a warmer spring this year…. I am really hoping for a hot and steamy summer.
Well good news on the garden front. We finally got a chance to work on the greenhouse and it is completely re-plasticed. It doesn’t look like an eye sore anymore and I got seedlings in it already. I have a ways to go with it but the main part is fixed.
I have to tidy it up and reorganize everything and get the my supplies back in there. I have some cool thoughts on what I would like to see but time will tell.
I uncovered the garlic beds today and the garlic plants are I’d say 90-95% peeking up out of the soil. My rhubarb is certainly done so well being moved some of the patches are double the size that great. My berry bushes look good, even the ones that I got last year and are still in their pots are doing really well.
It’s gonna be a busy spring and summer as we revamp the garden beds on the greenhouse side. We are establishing raised beds and moving a bunch of stuff around. I have an order of juniper logs coming on Thursday that will be the wood for the raised beds. The beds will be 3 feet wide and 12 feet long and there will be 27 beds in the big area and several in the smaller area that is parallel to the greenhouse.
I will be digging up all my asparagus roots and replanting them. All the gooseberries, red currents, black currents, honey berries and I think the hardy kiwi will be going in what we are gonna call the perennial beds. Plants that come up every year. The rhubarb and crosnes will also be added to that area. Some plants can’t even moved until the garlic plants come out if their beds so it might be fall time or even late summer replanting.
So lots of garden work on the horizon and its all very exciting. I think with all the changes we are gonna get so much more food production out of the gardens this year. Eventually, depending on how many logs we get we will also revamp the beds out back as well.
I can’t wait til Rusty gets the snow blower off the tractor so I can get out back to the compost piles and turn them to see how well they did breaking down over the winter.
I am hoping to “pimp out” my gardens and areas around them like my friend Ben from the UK did last year. Dressing it up with a nice sitting area, trellises for veggies and flowers and a couple nice private areas to relax.
I will have to take some pictures and update you on all the projects during the summer…. picture spam coming your way.
The horses are out on the side yard and that is always a nice feeling of spring. My my heart smiles when I look out into the yard and see them and when I go out and they come over looking for carrots or apples.
I picked up 4 new laying hens today from the coop. They are not day old chicks but hens that are ready to lay. It’s gonna be so nice having those new girls added to the flock. I usually hatch out my own eggs but since I got wiped out last year my focus will be with the new bresse flock…. I bought a couple of ready to lay girls which should surely speed up the process of getting fresh eggs sooner♡
Won’t be long before they all find their place in the hen peck line… love the coloring and spunkieness.
Did my Wednesday thing, deliveries for my micro CSA and harvest for the food hub. I did a special sourdough bread offering today. Most customers met me at the door with big huge smiles and warm greetings, that made me feel very happy and warm…. lol
On my way to the chicken coop yesterday, I was looking at the grass seed I spread out in bare spots and all I could see is a tonne of dandelions…. WOW.
I haven’t seen any hummingbirds yet but I did dig out the feeder…. I think as soon as I put it out I will see them. Awww the joys and happiness of the new season.
Well, gonna go for now, stay safe everyone.
Thanks 😊 for following me and God’s blessings to you♡
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