Tomatoes, Green Beans and New Chickens

Today's Harvest

     This is today's picking of tomatoes, cukes, zucchini, sweet corn, banana and cherry peppers and green beans. The sweet corn has been a disappointment, and will probably end up as chicken feed, but everything else has been delicious and plentiful.

     Last week we got a few tomatoes for tomato sandwiches, but this is the first 3 bucket harvest.  That orange tomato is a different variety, but it is fully ripe and tasty.  We have 5 different varieties this year.  The green beans give us a bucket full every 3 days or so, and the rest is just picked as we use it.

Tomato Patch after the pick   Plenty of green ones to ripen in a couple more days.

     The green beans climbed the old sunflower stalks until the weight of them toppled the stalks.  Not to worry.  I used other old sunflower stalks to form tripod supports.

Sunflower stalks as a support for the pole beans worked.....with some adjustments.

     Still to come are the pumpkins and the winter squash.

The Chicken Truck Makes a Run

     Yesterday Amber and I made a chicken run to Boy River to buy 11 more hens.  They range from young pullets just starting to think about laying eggs to a few one-year-olds.  They're all beautiful healthy birds.  That makes 21 hens and 2 roosters in all.  And yes, I did just get off the chicken truck.

Couldn't get all 23 together for this photo op.

     The 10-week-old guineas and 6-week-old peachicks, just like other youngsters, are getting bigger every day.

Guineas

Peachicks

Peachicks

      Besides harvest and finishing up the sliding winter door for the guinea-peacock house, I have a couple of other projects I should be finishing up in the next couple of weeks.  Enjoy the fall season and Happy Harvesting.