Pipping!
Category: Homesteading
Garlic
The garlic has sprouted and is about a foot tall — I mulched around the plants to keep weeds down and retain soil moisture.
Greenhouse Construction – Part 2
We tightened down all of the connections, stretched the plastic over the top, and tied it down.
Now we have a 26′ greenhouse ready to grow lettuce and house the tiny bird tractor.
Greenhouse Construction – Part 1
We’re putting up the cheap high tunnel greenhouse that I picked up a few weeks ago.
It took a day to get the frame together.
Orchard Layout
We should finally be past freezing nights for the season, so it’s time to get the fruit plants out in the orchard. I’ve got a couple of gooseberries and a hardy fig to put somewhere. But, in the next few days, I’ll get the currants, honey berries, seaberries, pawpaw, and cherry trees planted.
Proto-chickens and Proto-ducks — 8 days later
Scott and Anya candled all of the eggs tonight — of the 41 eggs, there are three that might not be developing. But all of the eggs are still in the incubator because there weren’t any obviously undeveloped eggs. If all of these eggs hatch, we’re going to have an absolute swarm of baby birds!
Proto-chickens and Proto-ducks
Trying again with the bigger, better incubator — 22 duck eggs and 19 chicken eggs.
2022 Maple Season
Well, the 2022 maple season is over — I think our taps have dried up because we’ve had a few freeze/thaw days and haven’t really yielded an appreciable amount of sap. We only got like 2.5 gallons of syrup this year — much less than expected … and we need to be ready to tap in January next year when the first week of freeze/thaw hits. While I love the flavor of late-season syrup, we’re getting way too many warm days in March for good sap production.
Tiny Ducky
We finally know what a newly hatched duck looks like! The little ones we got last year were a week or three old when we bought them, so we’d never seen exactly how tiny a duckling can be.
A Proto-Duck Emerges
Awww — one little ducky has hatched!
