Picture update.....( heavy laden)

Our White Plymouth Rock hen and her MUTT babies!  It will be interesting to see what they end up looking like. We have an eclectic flock; Buff Orphingtons, RIR's, Speckled Sussex, Barred Rocks, White Rocks, Black Austrolopes, Americanas, a Delaware and mutts!

Mama turkey( Lucy is her name*wink*) holding really still so we don't see her, LOL!

Here is one of the remaining poults, it appears to be a Narragansett

Two days old and already hunting for bugs.

I haven't been good at getting pictures of our progress in the hoop house, so here are a few. We're still working on getting the last raised/bermed bed in on the left hand side so we can plant late tomatoes and cantaloupe.

Here are sweet and hot peppers with hyssop and basil mixed in.

Close up of the tomatoes, they were pretty root bound when we planted them and they got a bit shocked. This hoop house environment has a learning curve, it doesn't take long to get above 100F inside, even though the outside temps are only in the 70'sF

You can see my poor tomatoes are root bound and showing it. We NEED to get our final bed done, otherwise I will have to re-pot them into larger pots*sigh*  So many things to do and so little time*wink*

If you have been a follower since last summer, this was our salad garden last season and this season is our potato patch, with Parsnips going to seed( for collection)

Our new strawberry bed, the old one was totally taken over by bindweed*sigh*, so we transplanted our saved strawberries into this new raised bed and then mulched them. They seem to be doing well, although not sure we'll get berries this year. Beyond the strawberries I planted fennel and then there are the walking onions, garlic( planted last Fall), garlic( planted this Spring) and finally at the far are Little Dumpling squash.

Here is a close up of the fennel we started from seed, it's looking good!

Fall planted Garlic and the Garlic planted this Spring is up about 3-4" tall just beyond this patch, we need to mulch them too.

Three rows of Cabbage, of which there are 6 red plants, all total we have 20 plants. :o)

We love coleslaw, freezer slaw and my favorite, sauerkraut!

One of our herb beds( the length of the main garden) coming along nicely. The only winter kill we suffered was a loss of one of our Sage( the purple one) but we have seedlings to replace it :o)

You can see we have the mamas close to the house, this is because the coons are thick already this year and we want to be able to hear if there is anything going on. We have doors to lock them in but coons are smart, so we don't trust that 100% *sigh*

Look closely and you see one of our many mama Robins. Funny thing is she nested really low. Maybe she feels safer from the grackles, as the grackles are horribly mean to the Robins and kill the Robin babies whenever they have the chance*Grrrrrrr...*

Here is a close up and you can see one baby getting some air, LOL!