I've got almost all of the garden put in. Just a few more seedlings left that I will have to figure out how to squeeze in there. Right now we have planted: several different heirloom varieties of tomatoes, potatoes, basil, leeks, strawberries, chives, lots of zucchini, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, pie pumkins, two different types of watermelon, blueberries, blackberries, a self pollinating apple tree, and a banana tree.
I'm quite pleased with how the garden is going thus far this year. I'm using some new (to me) organic soil amendments this year and I'm quite pleased with them. Of course, I have the rabbit hay and chicken poop but I'm also using "Mega Fish" and "Mega Sea." The Sea gets used on everything once a week and the Fish gets used every other week. I had heard that it makes things grow bigger and stronger and I have to say that, thus far, that is exactly what is happening! I'm a convert of these products most definitely! It's funny, when you're mixing up the Mega Sea into your water (I use rain water) it actually smells like the sea when you're at the beach! And the Mega Fish smells a bit like...well...fish, lol. But I don't care because I really like what I see it doing for my garden. I get these products from a Bulk Herb Store vendor.
I'm also fixing to start putting together my next order of chicks for meat. I'm trying to time it such that the week that the ones I have outside need to be slaughtered, the ones I will have in the brooder will need to be moved outside. I'm a bit nervous over the endevour as I already have 40 chickens outside and I'm fixing to order about 25 more, lol. But if things go like they should, the last 25 will be in the brooder and won't come out until the first set of 25 meat chickens are no longer in the yard. This is proving to be a very interesting summer, lol.
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