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little farm is a great deal enough for me for sure. We have the coop floor done, 3 walls up. We purchased the rest of the needed materials and hope to get most of it completed this weekend. Woot! Da chicks will me most happy indeed to get outta the garage! The veggies are doing ok, well, the ones that the slugs left. We needs more of that bright shuny orby thinger to come pay visits more often. my 108 tomato plants would like to request more sun for the rest of the year, the 125 squash plants agree, and the 125 peppers in the glass greenhouse, demand it!
I havnt even bothered to start a garden this year. I let the chicens have at it. there is still some rosemary, parsley, chives, ect. But they are all resprouts from last years plantings.
I have 4 celery plants and 2 cabbage planted this year that are doing fine. Chickens shredded the other 4 cabbage. They also ate all my strawberries, even though they were all green! I thought I had until they reddened to cover them up. They ignored even the ripe berries last year! Other than that I have chives, chocolate mint, rosemary, sage, cat nip, oregano and marjoram from last year and in my green house my maters, tomatillos, cucumbers, squash and egg plants are waiting for warmer weather. The cochins stripped most of the leaves from both my Thai and Italian basil, and all my pepper plants too. I'm going to seed a few flats of basil and lettuce tomorrow. I'm keeping most of my seed for next year.
I went to the NB Farmer's market today and bought 2 flats of strawberries for making jam. When I made jam from store-bought strawberries, no one liked it. These smell awesome, though she said her best jamming berries won't be ready for about 2 weeks. I got my dim sum happy meal. I intend to try the other food vendors as well, but I so crave that sticky rice steamed with mushrooms and chicken in lotus leaves. I meant to buy gluten free pasta, but $14 per ound is pretty steep and when I went back to my lawn chair to listen to the band and contemplate spending that much on noodles, a big dark coud came overhead and dumped on everyone. A bunch of us saw the ominous cloud roll in, so we hurriedly packed up our things and ran for our cars. I did not waste $ on pasta.
