We've been eating peas, broccoli, carrots, potatoes, zucchini, cabbage and lettuce. Just picked our first green beans and sweet corn. Looks like tomatoes in the next few days. Of course the pumpkins and winter squash won't be ready til fall. All in all, it's been a good year.
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| A Few Tomatoes are almost ready |
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| First Sunflower Bloom |
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| Cabbage and Broccoli has been great! |
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| Lots of nice tender young Carrots |
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| Late Planting of Lettuce and Swiss Chard |
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| Pumpkins still growing |
Poultry Report
I spent the last month remodeling the machine shed next to the granary into a poultry house for the guineas and the peacocks. I still have more to do before winter, but Tuesday I moved the guineas in. The peacocks will move in when they're a little older. The big project is to build a sliding door with windows that will slide shut along the track above the opening in cold weather, and open for air circulation when it's warmer. Repairing the broken siding on the granary and a little paint won't hurt it either.
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| Poultry House still needs work, but the Guineas were anxious to move in. |
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| 2 month-old Guineas: Spacious. Let's check out the Corners. |
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| Kinderpoult Room inside the Garden House |
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| 1 month-old Peachicks checking out the New Digs |
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| Chickens Doing Fine |
Although everything is still running about 2 weeks behind, most things have done really well. The cabbage, carrots, lettuces and broccoli have been super successes, the sweet corn, potatoes and onions have been okay, but not great yields Egg production has been adequate but low. Losing chickens to varmits has been disappointing, but a part of life.
(When Skunk and I met in the Henhouse) Still, as I walk out to gather eggs and feed the chickens, or pick the beans, I can't imagine a better way to spend my time.
