Let 2025 begin....

So got out late to put birds to bed. As I did a night watering and feeding to get them inside I heard a bird then klinking as I got the birds counted and locked up in their respective pens I caught the bird out of the corner of my eye. A young goshawk. All those birds out and about, he was attacking the plastic owl in the garden....phewwww lucked out on that!

 

I’ve been putting up my tree stands, I also checked on the brassicas that I planted. The germination is a lot better than I expected but that’s good. Only one of them was disked up all the others were spray and throw and grow in the thatch. Now it needs to rain enough to keep them going so I can fertilize them. Pics don’t want to load, I will try later

 

Today we got a break temps low 70's. Heavy rains and breezy.
It is really strange, last year I could not grow
Beans
Pumpkins
Spinache
Broccoli to save my life. Also my clover plots struggled.
This year, those are all growing GREAT.

 

Eewww a few hours in cold rain my toes and fingers are still a bit icey and I've been in the house a couple of hours. Feels GREAT! I was soaked to my underwear.
The zoodler came out and I just got two huge pans filled with zucchini and yelliw squash zoodles. Way tougher to do now with the hand situation but gotter done.
Tonights dinner, Zoodles in a creamy parm,garlic,mushroom sauce and chicken thighs with fresh purple pole beans and broccoli all from the garden.
Too tired to make zucchine cake for desert . That said, huge pot of rhubarb on the stove for rhubarb/ blueberry sauce over icecream for desert.

 

Ha! No wonder I was cold 64 right now

 

About those zoodles, man supper was great! Making the zoodles just the right size, draing excess water from them. Then pan fry them with the mushrooms and roasted peppers to get rid of more liquid before adding the garlic parm sauce makes them better than al dante pasta.

 

Yes another boring garden update. Actually my doc. on yearly garden growth, all dated for me.
By the way never had tomato plants do this, with blight in full force. I do no spraying what so ever. I go in EVERY morning and pull off all damaged leaves. It gives the plants just enough time to produce fruit before the stems finally get hit. Bugs are spreading it big time right now. Also my daily harvest. First poppers are in the freezer and beets will go in. We love the greens fresh. Radish are now done, beans just starting.
BTW, My chickens have eaten so many mulberries, blue berries and raspberries, their eggs have a slight sweet flavor to them...almost weird, but good. I start "harvesting" the roos born this spring at the end of this month.

 

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I ran into someone the other day in our conversation they questioned," you don't work do you?" No nope I just spend my time feeding us and maintaining our home and property. I don't have a job.

 

Today I havested the first of red taters 12#'s off 2 plants and they were mostly huge. Those were plants that came up from last years tiny taters I left in the ground. The plants died 2 wks ago. I have section about to die and the rest are still growing. Very early for a tater harvest.

 

Above, some pictures from the other day of the germination in the plots