June 25, 2011 Growing Olallieberries Along the Coast I love surprises in the garden. One of them this year has been the appearance of ollalieberries hanging from our two vines. The olallieberry…
June 21, 2011 And Now There Are Four…….. I’ve been engaged in what they call “flock management”. Flock management is one of the responsibilities of having a flock of chickens. It sometimes…
June 17, 2011 Tulip is Back With Flock Tulip is soooooo much better. We’ve put her back with her flock for a few hours each day. Today she laid her first egg…
June 13, 2011 Tendergreen and Japanese Purple Mustard Growing My Komatsuna tendergreen and Japanese Purple Mustard is growing. It has been kind of limping along because our weather has been so cool. I’ve thinned…
June 13, 2011 Ameraucana Hen Doing Well Thought you’d like to know that Tulip is doing well in her cage in the garden shed. She was so depressed when she was…
June 11, 2011 Ameraucana Hen “Tulip” is Sick Our gentle Tulip, the Ameraucana hen, is sick. Several days ago, I noticed that some of the feathers on her back had been picked…
June 7, 2011 Growing and Harvesting Artichokes We got a real “mother load” of artichokes this year. Maybe it was all the rain. Maybe it was a fact that these plants…