Two weekends ago we worked on our hoop house. Mom was visiting from Quebec, it was sunny and 72 degrees and while Steve made the plans for the hoop house and hauled the wood to the garden, Mom and I went to weed everything.
We cleaned out the berry bushes and around the eggplant and peppers. We fertilized everything with worm castings tea and trimmed the pole bean plants.
We built half the hoop house and then completed the frame on the ground. One more weekend and we should be ready for cover. Steve had an older storm door from the house that we replaced and he installed it in the hoop house. So that's ready too. It makes a funny skeleton right now.
I'm still picking cantaloupe, jalapeno peppers, beets and carrots. New yellow beans are starting now. They are long and skinny, like the french green beans but they are yellow. Just beautiful. My winter box of lettuce is full of bright green leafy lettuce. Lots of mustard greens too. The mustard greens are pretty enough for a vase.
We lost a couple of hens in the last two weeks. We are down to 27 hens and 1 baby rooster. He missed me while I was away last week. He has learned his sex dance. He dances around my feet and fluffs up to show his colors. Now I have to teach him to do it for the hens and not me. Any suggestions? The hens are giving us 12 eggs a day now. Eggs available for sale!
I made some chile tonight with roasted chilis, garlic, jalapenos and onions from the garden. Corn muffins with jalapenos from the garden too. Apple crumble for dessert. (apples from our trees).
Tomorrow nights dinner will include mustard green salad with pears and goat cheese. Yummy.
This weekend will be another picking weekend. Apples and pears. Sound familiar?
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