It’s a Growing

So we have been busy on the Homestead.  We have been in the gardens almost every days either weeding or planting more items.  We have corn that is almost chest high and should be getting ears on in within the next week.  The beans should start with pods very soon…there are tons of flowers on them.  We have now planted peas in the Herb garden and will probably plant more along the Vegetable garden tonight.

The herb Garden is growing.  We have added a variety of herbs from when we started.  We now have chamomile, more rosemary, marshmallow, feverfew, Calendula, Evening Primrose, Purple Coneflowers, more thyme, hot peppers and the DH even found a spot in the wood fence to add a sugar baby watermelon and a tomato plant, because we don’t have enough tomatoes elsewhere.  It’s funny about the tomatoes because we found 2 more volunteers last night in the garden in a place we never planted tomatoes before.  And the bigger kicker is I don’t like to eat tomatoes unless it’s in sauce, salsa or something like that.

The green house pond is now dug and the bridge is built, we are just waiting on getting the liner in and filling it up with some type of fish.  We are still debating on what fish to get.

The container water gardens have finally taken off.  We are growing duckweed like crazy now.  And the gold fish we got to try out are now about 2 inches long.

The “Ladies” are doing ok.  Our next door neighbor got 3 chickens off of us for his mom for mother’s day so the flock went down a few.  Then something recently got one of the Dominique’s and her back was cut up but I have her in a crate and she seems to be recovering quite nice.  This is the second chicken that I have nursed back to health.  One of our reds, Melvina, I thought was egg bound  so I did some treatment for her and whatever was wrong with her is now fixed because she is back to running around with those tail feather up. 

I will try to get pictures tonight if it doesn’t rain on us but we are making progress and just waiting for the “fruits” of our labor to reward us.