The Rain Notebook

I know I know… I didn’t blog yesterday.  Even though I was trying to blog every day, I failed.  I know all of you are just incredibly disappointed, and to make it up to you I’m making this blog all about my garden.

Little Egg Farm, That is the name that has been dubbed to my garden by some of my future egg clients.  This is because all my laying hens I have are bantams.  So of course I get the little white eggs.  Its actually quite funny, they keep asking when they are going to grow up and lay bigger eggs.  Each time I explain that I have bantams and that they will always lay these size eggs, they are full grown! But that my standard size chicks are growing fast, and will be laying the large brown eggs.  They still don’t seem to get it but have named my farm to the Little Egg Farm.   I think when I get my big hens laying I will rename it to the Little Big Egg Farm. :)

So out on the Little Egg Farm my garden is growing like crazy.  I have about of 100 sq  ft of actual planting space and have enough plants in it!  I’m growing tomatos, peppers of all sorts, 4 different squashes, carrots, cucumbers, beans, peas & snowpeas, kohlrabi, kale, garlic, onions, eggplant, elephant garlic,  and herbs of all sorts.

I love my garden and each year I want to make it bigger and bigger.  I think I will win this fight next year though. :)

So here its my beautiful garden pics!

First we start of with the entrance to my garden sanctuary.   During the rains and the cool mornings you will find me out here with my laptop and coffee. :)

These are some cucumbers I started by seed a month later then the rest of my garden.  But in the time that its had, its been doing great.  You can also see the carrots growing in front of it.  As well as pots of some snow peas that I thought were cucumber seeds. ha ha

Here is my main tomato bed.  I did overstuff this sucker and will learn my lesson for next year since I can’t seem to see what is growing in the center.  But they get enough nutrients and they are almost 4′ tall.  So I think they are quite happy.  Mixed in here are tomatillos, early girls, beef eaters, the yellow pear like tomatoes, and cherry & grape tomatoes as well as lots more different kinds.  I also have carrots and onions in, but I don’t think they’ll be doing too well with all the tomotoes hovering over them.  Well see come harvest time.

Half of my zucchini patch.   You can see part of my Turkey cage in the back there.  I love my Turkeys. :)

Speaking of Turkeys, look how big my turkey is!!  He is only 3 months old!

The other side of my zucchini patch.

Its probably the meanest thing to do to my chickens to put their coop RIGHT next to the garden.  They do eye it an awful lot.

All my pepper plants.  From Anaheim, to Cayenne to the bell peppers I have one of everything I could find.

And here is a mixture of more pepper and tomato plants.

Whatcha doing mom?

A close up of some of my first fruits.

Look how big!

Look how small!

Mmmmm carrots

And here we have some pictures of the chickens right after the rain we just had…

Handsome boy isn’t he??

You can see the silver silkie right next to the SAME AGE standard Buff Orpington….

After getting all “dirty” after the rain, the chickens had to take a bath in the dirt.  Silly birds.

Some final shots of other fun stuff in the garden

Garlic

Basil

Kohlrabi

And that is my garden… hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as I enjoyed sharing them with you!  Have a great Thursday!! :)