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| Chief chicken chaser on his way to find "his" chicken. |
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| Here chicken, chicken...where are you? |
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| Our silkies safe from hawks in the run. |
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| Girls in the sandbox which - I am surprised to say - has not become a chicken dust bath ;-) |
While the kids enjoy some time off from school and we don't have a lot of gardening or harvesting to do they love to play in the sandbox and Mama loves to play in her garden box! This is one of my raised beds that is really having a bit of trouble this year. Just a week ago it was FILLED with dense, thick foliage on the squash and tomatoes. Now, just rot remains in most of the bed. I have decided that with all of the rain we get here in the summers there was simply not enough air circulation to keep the leaves dry. Hindsight tells me that I should prune the squash leaves and tomatoes heavily. Lesson learned.
The nice thing about my raised beds though has been that the chickens do not get in them much at all. They are much more concerned with pecking and scratching the ground than in digging up my raised bed plants. The powdery mildew in this bed has been a constant battle. With the abundance of rain and poor air flow due to density, this is one battle I have lost for sure. Oh well, it's all part of Dixie Living, right?
See you around the Homestead,
-Melissa
While the kids enjoy some time off from school and we don't have a lot of gardening or harvesting to do they love to play in the sandbox and Mama loves to play in her garden box! This is one of my raised beds that is really having a bit of trouble this year. Just a week ago it was FILLED with dense, thick foliage on the squash and tomatoes. Now, just rot remains in most of the bed. I have decided that with all of the rain we get here in the summers there was simply not enough air circulation to keep the leaves dry. Hindsight tells me that I should prune the squash leaves and tomatoes heavily. Lesson learned.
