Planting is in full swing!

Longer, sunny days allow me to get 2 or 3 good planting hours in right after work. I've been dashing out of the office at 4:30 PM (which is my regular leaving time but it rarely happens) and I work until sunset which is now around 7:45.
The tilling went beautifully. We have nice dark brown soil and I am amending with worm castings and composted chicken poo.
Last night I planted radishes, spinach, turnips (3 kinds) and carrots (3 kinds). The night before I planted 3 kinds of potatoes and 2 kinds of onions. The night before that (Monday) I planted 3 kinds of bush beans, red onions, ever-bearing strawberries to fill in the existing berry patch and radishes.
This Saturday we plan to plant the new Macintosh apple trees and peach trees that Steve just bought. The peach trees already have small fuzzy peaches on them.
Now I have about 60 square feet of garden left. I am not even half done.

Windy but very productive day!

After a busy weekend of meetings I had some time on Sunday afternoon to help Steve with his new project. Our 27 baby chickens are not babies anymore and they needed a new chiken run to play outside. We cleaned out the area between the big horse barn and the chicken coop. It was our temp storage place for extra wood. After hauling all the wood into to horse barn we started enclosing the area between barns for the chickens. By 7PM we had a beautiful area for the new chickens to run, scratch and play during the day with a door directly into the coop and an outside door for easy pen cleaning. They are happy campers and can now suppliment their diet with all the bugs available! Yummy!
I also planted 25 more, ever blooming strawberry plants, 2 raspberry, 2 blackberry bushes and more lettuce.
Tonight I will plant beans, radishes and peas. I hope to have at least 5 types planted by the weekend and finish up after Steve finishes tilling. Planting season is busy!

It's Asparagus Season!!!

I really could be out there picking asparagus everyday.
My 3 year old patch is about 60 feet long by 4 feet wide. This is our first spring to cut spears for eating and we are having asparagus with almost ever meal.
I will start freezing some and then work on a really good Cream of Asparagus soup for the winter months, because I could really see us getting a bit tired of having Asparagus with every meal. I'm not complaining now, but now I see how it can get a bit boring after awhile.
Roasted, tossed with garlic salt and toasted sesame oil is still my favorite! It's like candy!
Photos to come.
Also, Strawberry blossoms a plenty! This is early!