Garden Progress

The garden was full of weeds when we got back from vacation. So we have been getting up early and weeding and in the evening.
The back garden has tomatoes, garlic, sweet peppers, Bush beans, cucumbers, butter beans, edamame, corn, pole beans and pumpkins.

The raised bed by the chicken run has beets, sugar snap peas, onions, moon and stars watermelon, snow peas, and cantelope

The six raised beds in the chicken run has spaghetti squash, zucchini, yellow squash, lima beans and black beans. some of the beans never came up so George planted cherry tomatoes in these beds

The tractor tire has carrots. The raised back bed has pole beans, sugar baby watermelon and some cherry tomatoes

Long bed in the run has habanero, cayenne, jalapeno peppers.

This is the herb bed next to the greenhouse

tubs with potatoes on the patio

Next to the patio we have blueberry bushes

We still have a lot of weeding and mulching to do but it is getting there slowly

Greenhouse

We had an old shed that the side wood was rotting but the bones were still good. So we decided to make it into a greenhouse. The shed is 10x16.

before

We removed the roof and put up Polycarbonate panels.

Here is the in progress project.

We got the doors and siding at Habitat for Humanity Restore

front

back

Tomato seedlings

Potting bench George made me from old barn board

 I loved the new greenhouse. we need to get a roof ventilator. but we can do that this fall.

It's a beautiful spring day in the neighborhood

Winter is like a relative that has overstayed their welcome. Although it is pretty, winter needs to move on.

First Day of Spring?

Today is the first day of spring. Hmm maybe we need to tell Mother Nature. Right now it is 27 and the high for today is suppose to be 35 degrees. I did look at the 10 day forecast and in 10 days it will climb all the way to 50. oh well, one of these days I will be complaining how hot it is.

We have babies!!

We stopped at Rural King last week to get some chicken feed and instantly my ears perked up. I hear peeping. So 7 little fuzzy butts found their way into a box.

4 Easter Eggers, 1 silver laced wyandot, 1 golden laced wyandot, and 1 black star.

Here they are today at the tender age of 2 weeks. Probably another week and they will move into the garage brooder.

We worked on the greenhouse this weekend. I got some seeds germinating in the basement. Need to build another raised bed IF it ever stops raining. I need to get my cool weather crops planted.

Is it March yet?

Why does the shortest month of the year seem to drag on forever? I am so ready for spring. I want to be in the garden. But for now I just have to dream of days ahead. I have all my seeds. The plans for the garden are being made. I did start some onion seeds this morning. We bought some wood for raised garden bed but it has been too cold and wet to do anything.

I did get some canning done this month. Yesterday I canned 1 quart and 3 pint of lentil sausage soup. Earlier in the month I put up 3 quarts and 6 pints of chicken and 2 quarts and 8 pints of chicken broth. I hope I can remember to keep a running tally this year of my canning.

Oh well, just a few more days and March will be here. Until then I will just dream of sunny skies, green grass and my garden

Welcome

My name is Barb and this blogging is new to me. Hopefully with some trial and error, I will learn how to do this.

Cackleshack got its name from an old woodworking shed we named the shack into a chicken coop. We have 19 spoiled rotten chickens, 1 dog and 1 cat. I have been debating for about a year now about getting goats. With the cold weather here lately I'm leaning against it but as soon as it warms up I am sure I will want them.

This is my journal so this old girl can keep track of things. The memory ain't what it used to be.