Reality has struck! Real winter weather has arrived of the last week with frost and very cold over night temperatures. The ground has gone from wet to workable to frozen!
At the start of the week I was able to clear two beds, fork and weed them along with putting mulch back onto the Hugelkultur beds that the chickens has scratched off! Since then the ground has frozen to a point of being unworkable. Chicken coops moved and the two groups of chickens that lived close to the garden have been merged so now there is one cockerel with four hens! He is happy! The other larger group are doing just fine. Average of 4.4 eggs this last week down on the week before. Good job! I have eighty four eggs to eat! LOL!
New varieties of seeds have arrived. Giant Japanese cabbage, giant pumpkins, giant Russian and Mongolian sunflowers (for the grand kids, of course!). Also a new variety for me of long outdoor cucumber called Suyo long (Chines, 10 to 18 inches!). Should be a year for the giants!
Large Hugelkulter bed and cleared/forked beds
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