If you don’t have a Tractor Supply or similar where you can go look at the fluffy babies, maybe videos will help?
Here are some baby Australorps to get you started!
The twins have been doing well enough for long enough I moved them back in with the other seedlings. They actually have bigger true leaves than the ones that didn’t get transplanted. 🤔
Made oatmeal cookies last night for summer consumption. The idea is to not have to bake when the summer heat hits, just take whatever I want out of the freezer. Currently resisting the urge to take some back out for right now. 🤪
I don’t think I could squeeze those in with my limited space, but I’ll try to keep that in mind.
I rescued most of mine from the woods where they’d been dumped 😒 by one or more neighbors getting rid of dead house plants. Some of them are nicely decorative too!
Checked on the garden box where I was trying to overwinter carrots and they’re all mush! Such a waste; I should have just harvested them all. :he I’m also going to be in trouble if I ever get a variety I want to save seed from. I wish I had more in-ground space to work with.
Congratulations! I checked and my chives are just starting to poke out of the ground. Still a good sign; I'd thought they were dead. 🤪
Tarragon was peeking out too, and had signs of digging around it. I put on the wire cloche; hopefully that will keep off the rabbits.
I had a second ghost...
😲 I have one like that right now! *runs to apply water*
In other tomato-related news, I tried splitting the twin seedlings last night, hoping to get them before they got too entangled. I still found bits of root in the soil, but they didn't keel over dead last night, so 🙏 they make it! I'm...
I tried kale last year and the bugs turned most of it into lace. 😢
In fairness, I also tried Brentwood lettuce last year, and it didn't bolt immediately on being planted outside. I'm planning to give that another shot this year, maybe I can get more of that going.
This year I will harvest more leafy greens before they can bolt. 😕
Been there! This is why my cayenne peppers now spend their existence in a hanging planter each summer. I ended up trying to jam them in every spare space I had that year and it turns out they do better there than anywhere else!
Seed hoarding is half the reason I frequent a seed library. 😅 Anything more than a year or two old can be donated and won’t be ‘wasted.’ Because I will do my best to save every single seed that can possibly be saved, but I will never have the space plant them all, so someone might as well benefit!