2012 planting finally!

Yesterday was gorgeous outside-I heard over 75 but I didn't check myself. Jen and I went out to get our starts and seeds in the ground.  We had a few beds to turn and lots of seeds to plant.  The soil amendments done this winter seem to have worked beautifully, while we turned the top layer of straw in the soil was soft, crumbly and full of worms.  yay!  One of our best skills is making good dirt.

The chickens got a lot of the extra straw and some weeds, fern cuttings and various other bits so they spent the day eating greens and turning their run.  In another few weeks of warm weather we're going to be able to pull out quite a bit of compost which I'm pretty excited about.

We planted seeds:

• shrub peas
• sugar snap peas
• green beans
• parsnips
• carrots
• onions
• cucumbers
• summer squash 
• scarlet runner beans
• sunflowers

We planted starts:

• cucumbers
• zucchini

We  still need to plant all of the tomato starts and some more summer & winter squashes which I will probably get to this afternoon since I'm not working. (after kayaking of course!)

I'm really excited about having a garden again this year and I'm still contemplating a yummy chicken dinner if the chickens don't start behaving better.  The past 2 days seem to have a bit of a truce with Sammy & the "4" (Henrietta, Henny Penny & Lunch & Dinner) so perhaps they are safe for now.  I'm hoping this truce means some of Sammy's feathers on her head will grow back -I wonder if bald chickens get sunburn?