We had two little helpers in the garden this week.

DT was busy taking the planter covers off the tomatoes and Little H and Little W had decided to remove all the lady bugs from our potato plants.  I tried to explain they were good bugs, but they just wanted to play with them.

The garden seems to be growing very quickly this year and I like to attribute that to our wonderful chicken fertilizer, ha ha.

Seriously, how many pets do you know fertilize your garden and give you breakfast everyday?

I planted spinach and bib lettuce, but neither seemed to be growing at all, I guess the seeds were old.  So I bought some more and planted spinach and mesclun (which is an assortment of small lettuces) and I also got green onion seeds.  I hope they do well I am really looking forward to some fresh salad greens.

Other than that the garden is growing like crazy but I think I said that already.

Today my first ever set of hatching eggs go into lockdown.  Chicks take 21 days to hatch, but 3 day prior you stop turning your eggs and bump up the humidity to about 65-70%.  Then you just sit and wait and don’t open your incubator till all of your chicks have hatched.  Hopefully by Monday or Tuesday I will have a few cute little chickies to show off.

5 of my original 11 have made it to lockdown including 1 experimental refrigerator egg from my Father in law. Hatching eggs are not suppose to be refrigerator or older than 10 days, these were at least 2 weeks old in our fridge and one is growing, Amazing, go chickie go.   Just tonight as I was adding a little water to my incubator, I noticed my Buff Orpington egg (the one with BO written on it) move, twice.  So I know my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me.

My other Buff Orpingtion little Buffy will have a few new playmates soon.

Here’s a group shot of my chicks and ducks from their outing today.  Daffy was stretching his wings.  I think he is a he, but not 100% sure.

And a silly shot of Skeeter, he was whining at me and I just love how his little under bite teeth are showing.

So how is your garden growing along?  What about your pets?  Chickens?  Anyone?

I will be posting weekly of the garden so please click on each week for more details. Week 1

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16 Responses

  1. I love seeing your garden pictures! And the ducks and chickies…to cute! I had problems with my spinach seeds too. I planted them 9 to one square foot (as Mel suggested) but only 2 came up in one and about 5 in the other. So I replanted and watered them good. We’ll see…

    Have a great weekend!

  2. My garden feels like it’s growing slow, honestly nothing looks different from last week? I don’t know why, and my topsy turvy tomato is not doing much either… I think I’m over watering that to be honest. I love seeing pics of your garden and your chickens too. I’ll be posting week 2 of mine this weekend. Thanks for the inspiration 🙂 Oh, and I’ll be trying out your pest recipe too, I’ve got it ready to mix.
    Thanks
    Denise

  3. OMG- so much exciting news! The garden has already grown so much. And cannot wait to see those little baby chickies! Are you going to get the ducks a kiddie pool? What about Buffy- is she doing ok after the altercation with precious?? XOXO

  4. I have a good friend with chickens as pets and she loves them. So do her boys. I’d never even thought about them in that way before her.

    I love the first shot…little boys in little boots make me smile every time.

  5. I can’t wait to see your egglets hatch! My Buff girls (my first!) are two weeks old now and growing like weeds. Wish I could say the same about my garden–it’s too early to plant yet. Still, I’m enjoying the mesclun mix that overwintered, yum.

    Swing by and see my chicks 🙂

  6. I love seeing your garden grow! The ladybug picture is magnificent. We have lettuce coming up from last year (although last years batch didn’t really do well). It’s so weird… I swear they aren’t weeds though… at least I hope not — yuck.

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