- lows: 60 - 70° F
- highs: 83 - 94° F
Planted:
- amaranth
- black oil sunflowers
- sweet potato slips
- potatoes
- peaches
- blueberries
- yellow onions
- multiplier onions
Egg Counts:
- Sun. 7
- Mon 6
- Tues 6
- Wed 6
- Thurs 9
- Fri 6
- Sat 6
- Week's Total: 46
Observed & Accomplished:
Sunday
- day of rest
Monday
- picked blueberries
- harvested onions
- harvested more potatoes
Tuesday
- finished harvesting potatoes
- weeded
- 1st cukes will be ready to harvest soon
- I think Mrs. Mean might be laying her eggs in the Broody's nest!
Wednesday
- latest garden post on my homestead blog
- weeded
- planted amaranth in old potato beds
- planted BOSS with cucumbers
- applied 4 cups dolomitic limestone and 3 cups bone meal to each bed
- picked about a gallon of blueberries
- 1st day this summer we broke 90°
- light rain, welcome after planting those seeds
Thursday
- weeded front herb bed; near impossible because of all the wire grass growing there
Friday
- froze blueberries
Saturday
- finished planting sweet potatoes
- applied dolomitic limestone to both sweet potato beds
- weeded tomato aisles
- noted some beds are muddy, some beds are dry as a bone
- picked blueberries (almost 2 gallons)
- other hens keep laying in the broody's nest. She has 5 or 6 eggs now; only supposed to have 3
- late afternoon thunder & a sprinkle
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