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| A Fourth of July Sampler |
MM-MM Good!
To the right is the produce I gathered on the fourth of July. The onions in the foreground are about 2 inches in diameter. I know they look dirty, but they cleaned up real nice. The carrots are rather small, but I wanted to see how they were coming, and they needed a little thinning anyway. Behind the carrots and the Hungarian wax pepper are the new red potatoes. It's a little early for them too, but one hill was crowding my carrots, and the other hill was shading one of my cucumber plants. In a week or two I should have lots of nice new red potatoes. Behind the potatoes is my second picking of peas and one late-coming asparagus stalk, that we'll mix in with the peas for tonight's supper.Tomato Patch
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| Tomato patch, July 4, 2012 |
This is my tomato patch in Puerto Rico. In the front are 8 Early Girl plants. I know you can't see them but they have several green tomatoes a little more than an inch in diameter. Behind those are 8 Better Boy, a later, larger variety, and then 6 Roma plants. Bringing up the rear is one hill of cantelope.
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| Corn patch in Martinique, July 4, 2012 |
Corn Patch
This is Early Bantam sweet corn that I planted in late April. A little early for this far north, but what did germinate is about hip high right now. Probably 2/3 of it did not germinate due to the cold weather in late April.The other corn patch I planted in late May germinated much better, but it's only a little more than knee high right now.
In the background on the right is the large chicken house, the barn in the center, and on the left is the combination garden/chicken shed, formerly a milk house.
Poultry Report
This is my first experience with setty hens. I understand the eggs are supposed to hatch after 21 days. I'm not exactly sure when they started, but I know they both looked real serious on June 12th. July 3 was 21 days, and as of 3:30 pm July 4, nothing has happened. I gently moved the white hen off her eggs to take a look, and the eggs looked fine. However, I must have woken her up from a trance, because she got up and ran around clucking for at least 10 minutes. From experience I know that any expectant mother would probably do the same thing. Hopefully she settle back down again soon.
If anyone has any suggestions or ideas on what I should do, or how long I should wait, please send me an e-mail, or write in the comments below. Of course, you're always free to comment on any aspect of my homesteading endeavor.
