Strawberry Plants

 

Ryan propagating our strawberry plants. We have 12 plants from the 2 we started with. 

Spring Planting

Today Ryan and I planted our second planting in the garden. We are not sure yet if our first planting took since nothing has sprouted yet. We dug up one of the potatoes to check and it seems to have sprouted. Maybe we are just a bit anxious. 

Ryan did most of the muscle work today, while I planted some free seeds that were included in the fall order from rareseeds.com. If all goes well, I'll have some beautiful Love in a Mist flowers. I planted two large containers for the sitting area that we are planning by the garden. 

We stopped by the local Home Depot and picked up a dwarf peach tree to plant in a container. On the way back home, we stopped at the local nursery and I picked out 5 more herbs to add to the herb garden. I now have another Rosemary plant, two varieties of lavender, fennel, and chives. 

Our day was wonderful, browsing the garden areas together, picking out plants, planting food for us to eat, and situating our container herb garden. Our breezeway sitting area is shaping up nicely. Hopefully we will be able to sit and relax and enjoy our beautiful plants together soon. 

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Chicks visit the outside

Brought our Ameraucana chicks outside for a few hours this evening. 

Fresh Carrots and Flying Saucer Squash

It is so cool to me to just walk outside and get a fresh carrot out of my garden and eat it within minutes. We are about to have a TON of carrots ready for eating. Our flying saucer squash is starting to produce as well. 

New chickens and quail

10 new Ameraucana chickens. They lay green and sometimes blue shelled eggs. I can't wait till they are bigger and start laying eggs. 

You can read about them here

http://www.hobbyfarms.com/farm-breeds/poultry-profiles/ameraucana-2.aspx

20 new baby quail. We bought babies this time since our last 10 never even laid eggs. Didn't want to take a chance this time.

Baby Romaine Salad

Tonight we ate baby romaine salad. We thinned the romaine from the garden about a week ago and cleaned and refrigerated them. 

The salad was awesome, unfortunately I didn't get a picture. Ryan put ham, crumbled Parmesan, and Caesar dressing. I can't wait till we thin it out again.  

Broccoli Pasta

Tonight we tasted from our garden. Ryan cooked up some angel hair pasta with shrimp, bacon and broccoli. It really was delicious. We tried a few bites of the steamed broccoli before we mixed it into the pasta dish and I have to say it was better than any I've bought from the store. Of course, I didn't help grow the broccoli at the store.