My rhubarb on May 8th..
My rhubarb on the 28th of May :) Amazing what 20 days will do.. we have big plans for rhubarb crisp and someone told L about rhubarb pie so we're going to try that too :)
Christmas 2013
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Chicks are OUT!!! Finally!!
Due to a very wet cold spring we've had our chicks (meat birds) inside far to long. About 2 weeks longer then we normally do. But the weather just was not co-operating at all. The other night at 3 am I had a WONDERFUL idea and BONUS I remembered it the next morning. The 1st day we could do it was today so we did. We moved our layers out of the greenhouse several weeks ago and today we moved the chicks into and around it. They have access to grass.. and shelter!! And we can still use the heat lamps on those cold nights.
L and a chick.. he didn't like catching them at all last year but really enjoyed it this year.. I told him we might make a farmer out of him yet..
The 1st chick in the wheelbarrow.
Bringing the full load to the new pen. The kids are holding the lid on so no chicks can get out! We had to go through Maggie's pen and she got SUPER excited!! That blue wheelbarrow normally holds her sweet mix and she was pretty sure SOMETHING good was going to happen to her!!
Taking the lid off.
FREEDOM!!!
Putting the 1st load in.
L dubbed these the 'two headed Monsters'
Taking the wheel barrow out after the last load!
Finally all 187 chicks out in the green grass!!
Our Garden This Year.. Update :)
We've made it a bit of an experiment. Measuring and keeping track of how much each persons plants have grown over a period of time. I took pictures too. We planted them on May 5th and this is what they looked like on the 13th.
The kids plants and my zucchini are in the yogurt cups (next year we are going to do clear cups so we can see the roots!!) and the flat with a lot of green is my lettuce and the other is spinach.
This was on the 19th.
Spinach.
Lettuce. Needs watering, I think that we probably need to water more. I'm noticing that the flats need more water then the cups.
Yogurt cups of kids stuff.. The tall ones in the back are my zucchini the big leafed ones in the front and middle are the cukes and the smaller leafed ones are radishes.. the tiny ones are carrots.
R's radishes and E's carrots.
We have also planted the raised beds out front. We planted corn (leftover seeds from last year) in one bed, peas (for fresh eating) in 2 others, one large and another small one because we had a lot of seeds left over. The last raised bed, large, has beans, also for fresh eating. We planted them all together last weekend. I raked the beds and made some farrows and the kids and I planted seeds. R helped cover them up as her idea of planting seeds is to take a handful and throw.. we let her plant the little raised bed of peas :) It is so nice to work that high up. Neither Papa or I hurt our backs planting or covering up. Then we covered them with the white fabric covers and completely forgot about them. I'll have to go take a look today and see how they are doing. I'm not expecting much from the corn.. we did plant it a bit late for up here.. even if it is a short days growing type. Normally to get corn we have to start it inside. If nothing else we'll let the cow have it this fall.
1st Black Eye... guess who...
YUP Baby J got his 1st black eye this week.. If this is any indication he'll have a few more before he's ready for school!! He is such a rough and tumble little boy!! It's the one on the left in the picture. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture at it's worst. There was a cut under his eye as well. He smashed his head on our couch while playing and did a great job on his eye. In this picture it's the brown/green spot right under the outside corner of his eye.
Wagon Fun :)
Baby J found a stick in the wagon and E was trying to keep it out of his mouth :)
They had a blast!!
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