Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Between Harvests

From time to time I get really fed up with the weather, it seems like all it does is rain. The grass is constantly wet and I can't mow, which of course means it is taking over and that stresses me out plus the chicken run is a muddy mess, because no mater what I do, it rains and makes it worse. I JUST WANT SUN! 

Then the little voice in my head says "It could be way worse! We could be the state having wild fires!" OK OK you are so right little voice and I am so glad we aren't that state by the way. Plus it is making taking care of the garden easier so I should just count my blessings. Let me tell you what, the rain is doing wonders in the garden division. 



Our Blackberry bush started to produce this year! We got a hole 4 or so berries, but I'm sure next year will be awesome!




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Everything is really looking great which is awesome but then at the same time we are in the hurry up and wait part of the process again. We were so excited to have lettuce and strawberries earlier in the year and now that the strawberries have stopped producing we are just kind of hanging out and waiting for all of our other plants to come into harvest season. 

As you can see the tomatoes are doing amazingly well and are probably the next to be harvested we are just waiting for all of those beautiful things to turn red. 




Happy Gardening!

James and the giant peach

We planted a peach tree in the summer of 2013 and this year we got our first little peach from it. Hopefully next year we will get at least 2 peaches :)

Monday, June 1, 2015

Yummy Grass

Took the smaller chickens out for some fun in the grass. 
We also took out the babies to the garden and used them as weed control and as fertilizers.




The Fruits of our Labor

Our garden is doing great and we have already been eating the fruits of our labor! 
We have been picking strawberries like crazy, the last couple of weeks, and mainly eating them as soon as they are picked. This weekend we did something other than just eat them straight out of the garden, we had strawberry shortcake.
Shawn and Gabe have also been steeling lettuce every chance they get. I'm just glad that all of the boys are eating fresh food from the garden as their snack of choice! This is one of the things that we were wanting when we moved here and started this blog.

We added a new garden bed this year with multiple types of corn.