Oct 19, 2009

The chickens saga...

We are down to only 4 out the 7 chickens that we started with.  They were 5 weeks old two of them were/are plymouth black rock and five of them are/were orpingtons.  We don't the entire area covered and so we think a hawk is swooping down and grabbing them.

Our solutions:  add bird netting or some sort of cover and get more chickens hopefully older and hope they don't kill each other dominating the pecking order.

Planting & Sowing



We decided to begin some greens as starters and sprouts salad greens from seed.  

Starters: Flowering Kale (Purple), Flowering Kale (Green), Cabbage (Red), Curly Parsley, Violas/Johnny Jump Ups

Seeds:  Spinach, Lettuce (Bib), Lettuce (Romaine), Turnips and Radishes

We plan on getting a new herb from the Farmers Market when we get there.