Dec. 25 - 31, 2011

Temperature Range:

• lows: 27 - 42 F
• highs: 48 - 59 F

Rainfall: 1.35"

Harvested:

• collards
• cabbage collards
• lettuce
• kale
• calendula blossoms

Egg Counts

• Sun. 1
• Mon. 0
• Tues. 1
• Wed. 0
• Thurs. 2
• Fri. 0
• Sat. 1
• Week's Total: 5

Observed & Accomplished
Sunday

• scalloped homegrown sweet potatoes

Tuesday

• heavy rain then winterish winds
• garden is very muddy
• lots of seed catalogs arrived today
• used a few more windowsill ripened garden tomatoes in scrambled (frozen) eggs
• violets are blooming

Wednesday

• finished off the rest of the roosters (all but 1)
• froze 3 chickens
• cleaned out goat stalls & started new compost pile
• put last of made compost where new comfrey bed will be

Thursday

• raked more pecan leaves for mulch
• mulched parsnips
• 2 Welsummer eggs today

Friday

• chilly & drizzly 
• saw 3 black vultures in the old oak trees

Saturday

• Barred Holland started laying again
• seeded most of the broom corn