As I was prepping my two beds for planting some really early spring stuff, I had to keep shooing the chickens away because they just absolutely loved scratching in the newly turned soil. So I had to put them back in the coop to finish my planting. And then today, for the first time in my life, I bought chicken wire because I needed to use it for its name: "chicken" wire. I got some two foot wide stuff from Home Depot and encircled my two new beds so that we can let our chickens out of the coop and still get some crops to grow.
What I planted yesterday actually was not the first planting for this year's garden. Back in November on Thanksgiving morning, I planted a number of cloves of garlic. We now have around 20 garlic sprouts up which should be ready for harvest some time in August or September. We are really looking forward to adding our own garlic to our home-made, mostly home-grown pesto and marinara.
It was gray, rainy and cool today and I was tired. So no yard work beyond setting up the temporary chicken wire fencing and moving the coop to a new spot.
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Do you eat the garlic shoots? The curly ones, that is. They are fantastic in stir-fries and the like. Intense garlic flavor. Can't wait for ours from our farm share.
And, oh, how different a veggie garden (which I can't grow, no sun) and a perennial garden are. I do my darndest not to water every day when it gets dry. Supposed to make the plants hardier. Hard on me, though, I want to help!
We've had the rainiest spring in 5 years, though. I need to get the fungicide out to kill off the anthracnose that drops all over my southwest bed from our poor, ailing oak tree. Next year I get the arborists in to give it an injection, you bet.
Am very pleased with my irises this year, though, should have pics in flickr soon. I guess irises like long, hard winters.
More pictures of stuff on your site, more, more!
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