Thursday, June 16, 2011

Garden plunder

This is becoming an everyday occurrence, minus some of the yellow squash, minus some of the bell peppers, plus a whole flat of tomatoes each day, purple hull peas, and some green beans. We've now canned 14 quarts of tomatoes and 7 quarts of squash.
Monday we picked the two rows of sweet corn- it was so tasty. The Merit variety seemed larger and perhaps a bit sweeter than the silver queen. Off two 30 ft rows, we got around 7-8 gallons of corn on the cob.
The peppers aren't doing well again. The plant just randomly shrivels up and dies. I don't know what's wrong!
I now have 24 chickens-- 17 young sex-link pullets around 2 months old, 2 rhode island red hens, 2 dominic hens, 2 cuckoo maran laying hens (new as of Tuesday), and 1 very lucky rooster.
The weeds are overtaking the garden! I'm trying to decide whether to spray with roundup between the rows or just get the old hoe and do some "hoeing around." ha ha.

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