Garden Pics and More.....

Grow blueberries, grow!! I can't wait to eat your berries!



The raspberries are pink and turning red, next week I am hoping we will be picking them. Then it will time to be making jam, freezing berries and eating them.



The pears are looking really good this year, these little pears will be big enough to eat before we know it.



Do you remember the pepper plants that froze when it got so cold here and my littlest Emmy was so sick I was scared to leave her in the house even long enough to turn on the greenhouse heater? Well I babies those plants along and look at them now!



Here is the beans and beets



I love the blossoms of these beans, I find them beautiful



Here is the Lupine bed I planted up by the pool, I love Lupines as I mentioned in my last post so I am really hoping these spread this fall



Here is our fly control and also the layers of the best eggs to bake with. Yum, duck eggs are so rich and delicious



These are our natural grass cutters, they do a good job. I move them around with lead lines each morning. The get to go back to their pen in the evenings and cozy up in the straw to sleep. The are very sweet though and I just lead them to their lead to their lines with a bucket of sweet feed. They have a purpose here but are treated very well.



The meat chickens are looking really good,I think. I am not sure what they are suppose to look like and they are missing feathers but they are active, I am letting them free-range during the day and locking them in the greenhouse at night. Before this I had a cage I moved around the yard and unfornuately I lost 9 of them to predators before I put them in the greenhouse at night. All 9 of them gone the same night with a trail of heads left behind. Makes me sick to think of because while their purpose is to be a food source, it was suppose to be for those who took care of them and tended to their needs while the were living. Giving them the best life I could before butchering time. They are 5 and a half weeks old, I need to start thinking about butchering time, I am mentally gearing up for it, but this will be my first time. If all goes well I would like to raise 25 more in the fall.





I will leave you all with a pic of my favorite chicken, named Turkey Lurky. This hen is the most friendly of them all and will follow me anywhere. She followed me in the house the other day until Dale threw her back outside where she belongs.