Also harvesting tomatoes, beans, peppers and carrots. It's been a good couple weeks and I've had the best harvest ever of beans. These beans are a bush variety and thanks to ducks and chickens - well fertilized. :-) I don't know if that is the main difference or if the weather was just perfect for them lately, but this is the smallest planting I've ever done and I harvested almost twice as much as my Romas in twice the space. I plan on cooking them tonight to do a taste test and if they are nearly as good as the roma beans I will be letting them go to seed.
Here are the pictures for the week:
The ducklings are doing well and the chickens still hate them. It's something I'm going to have to deal with soon...they need to be housed together and soon. We plan on taking the majority of the ducks to Alabama on the 4th of July. But, the one that stays needs to stay in the chicken run. This should be interesting. I don't know what to do to help the situation as the ducklings where inside the run in a wire cage for weeks with no attitude change from the hens. I would think about replacing the hens at this point to introduce an entirely new flock together but it's not chick time at the feed stores anymore so I would be forced to buy from a hatchery and I'm not sure that is a good answer. I'd need to find homes for the rest of the chicks.. Ah well- so I keep trying. They do well together in the yard, but not in the run.
See you soon!
Barbie~
Your bean harvest looks lovely. Mine are just starting to break the surface and sprout right now.
ReplyDeleteThanks Daphne. Yours will be along shortly!
DeleteLooks wonderful! We're so far behind you that our beans are just starting to get off the ground, and blueberries only now finished blooming. No tomato or pepper formed at all.
ReplyDeleteOh what I wouldn't give for the ability to have more blueberries. (Got 50 new started plants for next year!)
DeleteToo bad about the duck/chicken situation. And I know what you mean about the blueberries. They are so nice to have, and I miss them when they are gone too!
ReplyDeleteDave - those berries are addictive. Strawberries I don't miss too much because they are cheap enough around here that I cna pick them up anywhere- but fresh Blues are much pricier!
DeleteNice harvests, especially all those beans and the last of the blueberries look delicious. I hope you can get the chickens to accept the duck.. poor duck! I've been contemplating getting ducks and now I know not to mix them with chickens.
ReplyDeleteJulie - I think you can mix them it just takes time to integrate them. For the most part they do fine with each other in the yard, it's only in the chicken run that seems to be the problem.
DeleteEverything looks wonderful...but I'm especially drawn to those amazing blueberries you have there! Great harvests!
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