- lows: 29 - 50 F
- highs: 42 - 67 F
Harvested
- collards
- kale
- broccoli thinnings
- mangel thinnings
- cabbage collards
Gathered
- persimmons
Preserved:
- 5, half-pints green tomato jam
- 1 more hard cheese
- froze persimmon pulp
- Sun. 0
- Mon. 1 + stash of 11
- Tues. 1
- Wed. 1
- Thurs. 1
- Fri. 3
- Sat. 0
- Week's Total: 18
Sunday
- day of rest
- thinned broccoli & mangels to feed the goats
Monday
- Rained all day. So much for garden chores
- made yogurt
- canned the green tomato jam I'd been working on
- found an Ameraucana's secret nest in the haymow - 12 eggs!
- ordered more cheese wax
- found 1 more jar of 2010 pizza sauce
- persimmons seem about done
Tuesday
- wintry feel to the air
- light rain in p.m.
- inside day
Wednesday
- opened a jar of the chicken / okra gumbo for lunch, YUM
- pulled dead okra, marigolds, & broom corn stalks from garden
- raked pecan leaves
Thursday
- made cheese #20
- waxed cheese #19
- collected okra seeds from pulled plants
- need to pull popcorn stalks but the ground's too wet
- sauteed cabbage collards with onions for dinner. Very tasty
Friday
- One of today's eggs was light brown like the Delaware's, except she's dead. Could it be that the Buffs have started to lay?
- raked leaves for mulch
Saturday
- raked more mulch
- mulched collards & beets
- partially mulched kale & carrots
- pulled dead popcorn & bean plants
- fixed terrace logs
- thinned broccoli (& fed to goats)
Our chickens are hardly laying now, I know some put lights on in winter but we have decided not to do that. - Our rooster quit crowing a few weeks ago and a chick that we thought was a hen turned out to be a rooster..I heard a weak, funny crowing this morning. We are now thinking that the big rooster quit crowing because he new the other one would get after him and perhaps he wasn't up to the fight..Chickens are funny. xo
ReplyDeleteI wish our rooster would stop crowing! He crows more than ever now that the Buff cockerels are getting big. And chase them! He's constantly chasing somebody! It's driving me nuts. LOL. Chickens are funny though, you're right about that. I agree about not lighting the coop either. We didn't and don't plan to. That's where all those dozens of frozen eggs come in handy!
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