It's been a busy week on our homestead. With the warmer temperatures and lots of rain, our garlic really popped up.
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| Garlic growing |
We were really excited to see the garlic coming up through the straw mulch we put down. And now we just can't wait to see how well it does at keeping the weeds down. Because we plant in raised beds, we put the straw down really thick in between the beds and about 1 inch thick on top of the beds. Next year, we want to mulch in the fall instead of the spring.
Today we got our new egg laying chickens, 8 red sex links. We can't wait to have fresh, organic eggs again. Since our chickens stopped laying in December, we've probably eaten 3-4 dozen eggs total in 4 months, compared to 2-3 dozen a week.
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| New chickens |
Now on to the chores and to-do list. Fences to take down, fences to put up, new electricity in the barn, new raised garden beds, and the list goes on and on.