Farm days!

Our little garden has finally started producing some tasty veggies!  It’s so much fun going out in the morning and finding some treasures growing under the vines and plants.  We have gotten several dinner’s worth of green beans and yellow squash and the cucumbers are also making….so far, they aren’t huge, but smaller cucs are better tasting (or so I’ve been told).  The cherry tomatoes have also started getting ripe, but they get picked and eaten long before they are allowed to turn red:(  Keeping the “critters” out of the garden has proven to be a bit of a struggle…….four big “critters” keep eating the fresh produce!  I’m hoping we will have some large tomatoes get ripe soon too! Our corn is making even though the plants were blown down pretty bad during the terrible wind storm we had late last month.  I’m excited to taste the ears from our corn…..maybe in a few weeks some will be ready.

And our hens have started laying eggs on a fairly regular basis.  We have been getting on average one egg per day, though they are pretty small eggs.  But about 75% of the eggs have been double yolk, so that’s super fun.  We had one week of zero eggs.  It was super hot that week and we were letting the chickens roam from dawn to dusk, so I’m thinking they were laying somewhere other than their nest box!  But for the past week they’ve been caged for at least the morning hours and we are back to getting an egg or two per day     Jeremiah is convinced that “Daisy-girl”(that would be his hen) lays ALL the eggs.

 
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