spring scramble

Spring's time for growin'-buildin'-raisin'-makin' stuff. I think there needs to be 4-5 hours tacked on each day to accommodate. We're raising chickens and vegetables, building an apartment and a coop, making violet syrup, dandelion syrup, and beer. These are just a few on the list.Making a shed out of scrap lumber involves a lot of creativity, patience, wrestling skills, and screws. Warped, twisted, chopped, knotted, all combine to require a good paint job and landscaping to cover up the various grotesque imperfections this method includes. But hey, a shed 5'x10' should cost several hundred dollars...mine's free.


The little ones are now 6 days old, down to 48 of the little poopers.

The list is long on the aspirations of a garden this year. Seedlings started so far include:

Tomatoes: druzhba, peacevine cherry, black krim, amish paste, fox cherry, brandywine, cherokee purple, golden jubilee, red pear, yellow pear, black from tula, golden zebra, thai pink, black plum, dad's sunset, roman candle, black cherry, purple russian

Peppers: japone chile, new mexico chili, sweet mini, toro rosso, red ruffled pimento, tangerine pimento, purple beauty, sweet chocolate, red marconi, and red bells from the local produce stand.

Others: sugar snap peas, cascadia bush snap, oregon sugar pod, black beauty zucchini, waltham butternut squash, golden marble scallop squash, straightneck squash, tomatillo, early purple broccoli, bush sugar baby watermelon, vienna kohlrabi, purple of sicily cauliflower, black eel zucchini, caserta zucchini, lemon squash, thai yellow eggplant, rougevifdetampes squash, rainbow chard, lucullus chard, red chinese long bean, yellow beets, dark red beets

Whew. Hopefully the deer, birds, turtles, chickens, dogs, hornworms, aphids, and whiteflies leave us a few.