Our Gardening Progress

We had a fun although tiring day today.  We were finally able to dig into the soil in my parents’ garden spot.  My son, daughter, and husband took turns tilling and laying out rolls in which we were able to plant seeds and plants.  We planted tomato plants, a few cabbage plants, squash, pinkeye purple hull peas, rattlesnake beans, cucumbers, corn, sugar baby watermelons, and okra.

Upon arriving home, my daughter and I decided to plant some things in our container garden.  We had thought it was too late to plant lettuce seeds, then we heard of others planting lettuce so decided to give it a try.  We planted red bowl lettuce and butter crunch lettuce.  There were also some plants on the porch that still needed planting so we planted a basil plant and a chocolate mint plant in the container garden.  While looking over the plants we had already plants a couple of weeks ago, we noticed that we had a banana pepper and a tomato growing so we are looking forward to a time when those are ready to be eaten.

Gardening and Chickens

Our Container Garden

We are finally making some progress with our garden.   This week we started on our container garden.  My husband had built it larger than I had expected, and we were having some trouble filling it with soil so he put another board down the middle.  My teens made sure all the soil was moved to the smaller compartment in our wooden container.  We later planted a few things that had started dying while sitting on our porch waiting for one of our gardens to be ready for planting.  So, we planted four tomato plants; one cherry tomato and 3 better boy plants, six banana pepper plants, marigolds since they are good for repelling bug, mint, rosemary, and some flowers for my daughter.

We will be planting in my parents’ garden hopefully sometime this month.  Our tiller needs a new motor, and some other things are kind of holding us up.  We have tomato plants ready to be planted and have seeds galore that we are eager to put in the ground.  I pray that God helps our gardens grow and provides nice, gentle summer showers for good watering.

Our chickens are all growing and doing well.  We bought some chicks unexpectedly last month.  My husband brought home 13 Cornish Rock chicks which have grown really fast, and I believe this is the breed that has been bred to grow fast so you can kill and eat them.  My dear husband did not know this when he bought them, and we have been surprised at how quickly they have grown.  We also have three Golden Comet hens.  These little hens are sex linked which means that when they are little you can tell if they are a pullet by the color they are.  They are supposed to lay nice, large brown eggs when they are grown.  We look forward to finding out.

Our Golden Comets with one of the Cornish Rocks