Chickens journals
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Chickens - Barred Plymouth Rock Harvesting, Asparagus 'Viking' Harvesting, Poultry garden , Pear Guild gard...
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May
2013
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Sunny 25°C / 77°FFriday Thinned and transplanted tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers. Replaced a weaker ‘Black Beauty’ seedling with an extra ‘Black Enorma’. Similarly replaced some ‘California Wonder’ and ‘Jimmy Nardello’ peppers with spare ‘Boldog Hungarian&...
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Pond Border garden and Poultry garden
28
Apr
2013
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Overcast 15°C / 59°FThis weekend was busy & quite productive. While none of the tasks is destined to become a yearly favourite, I am pleased with getting them out of the way. Wheelbarrow Rehab Last spring I purchased primer and two cans of enamel spray paint to coat the wheelbarrow. As spring started so early, a...
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Chickens - Barred Plymouth Rock and Poultry garden
19
Mar
2013
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Sunny 0°C / 32°FOne year ago today, at a hatchery in southern Ontario, many chicks hatched. After being sorted into a small box, some of them made their way to my local feed store. I picked them up on March 21, 2012. One year later, caring for 12 hens is part of my daily routine. In many ways it feels as though ...
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06
Mar
2013
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Chicken House Rearranging & A Mini-Greenhouse
Container garden , Chickens - Barred Plymouth Rock , and Poultry gardenLight Snow Showers 0°C / 32°FSometimes in late winter it’s difficult to decide on what garden related tasks to do. Start seeds earlier than last year? Prune the fruit trees? Work in the garage to create trellises? Make a pretty garden plan on the computer? Try to uncover the cold frame? Make Easter decorations? Yesterd...
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Artichoke , Eastern Companion-Planted Vegetable garden , Zone 4 & 5 Forest garden , Northern Border garden...
28
Feb
2013
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Light Snow 0°C / 32°F… out like a lamb? I hope so. It snowed on Wednesday, again yesterday, and again today. So it’s plan B on the cold frame search. Wait five weeks until the snow melts on its own. Start sprouts and microgreens indoors this weekend. It’s warm, which is a mixed blessing. I much pref...
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Aloe vera Pruning and Square foot Garden garden
17
Feb
2013
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Windy 17°C / 63°FSince the weather was bearable today. Even though the weather was overcast and windy it was 63 F and I hurt my rotator cuff, I decided to clean up my square foot garden. Last year, I used newspaper to prevent weeds. Apparently, I did not use enough because I was weeding like crazy last year. So ...
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Hen House garden
02
Feb
2013
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15°C / 59°FFor a while I was overseas, and then family commitments got in the way plus the renovations from hell after moving… So, after nearly 10 years, chooks again! Because the hen house is visible from Mum’s kitchen window, it had to be presentable. What I decided on was a 1.8 × 3 mete...
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26
Nov
2012
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Chicken Chores: Compost moved for winter
Poultry garden and Chickens - Barred Plymouth RockI’ll just move the tempo, transfer the compost heaps, add some chicken wire and a pop door et volià: winter outdoor exercise/play area for the chickens. Simple, easy-peasy! Or not… Moving the tempo (carport) frame proved to be quite challenging. In the end it was several days work to ...
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Chickens - Barred Plymouth Rock
05
Nov
2012
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Clear -4°C / 25°FI’m spending this evening getting the seeds ready for the fall swap and trying to understand the US presidential election system… I wind up confused every four years! I cannot imagine waiting in line for five hours to vote. Are there fewer polling stations than here? I don’t thi...
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31
Oct
2012
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Fall Gardening, Building, LED Lights for Chickens, and Seed Swaps
Poultry garden , Chickens - Barred Plymouth Rock , Broccoli 'Calabrese Green Sprouting' Harvesting, and Bro...Overcast 4°C / 39°FA week or two ago I cleared out my summer herb/lettuce planter on the deck and sprinkled some ‘Yankee Hardy Lettuce Mix’. I forgot to record the exact date, but it’s been pretty cool, so two weeks ago sounds about right based on the growth to date. I’d like to figure out h...
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29
Oct
2012
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Sandy & Winter Chicken Accommodations
Poultry garden and Chickens - Barred Plymouth RockPartly Cloudy 18°C / 64°FSeems like the storm lost much of its steam as it moved further inland and has more or less skirted around us here. It was very windy last night, and I was really pleased that I got the chickens inside. I would have worried about them all night had I not. The power stayed on, save for a few flick...
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28
Oct
2012
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Nothing like a Hurricane to get the Winter Prep Done!
Poultry garden and Chickens - Barred Plymouth RockSpent today working on a proposal due by 5 and then turned to thinking about how to make sure the pasture shelter was anchored and the chickens would be safe through the storm. I made the decision that the best way to ensure the chickens were safe and that nothing turned into a projectile was to ...Overcast 15°C / 59°F -
Pear 'Flemish Beauty' , Pear 'Clapp's Favourite' , Poultry garden , and Pear Guild garden
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Oct
2012
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Sunny 15°C / 59°FWay back in the spring I bought two pear trees: ’Clapp’s Favourite’ and ‘Flemish Beauty’. I had the best intentions of getting them planted right away, but getting the vegetables planted and the chicken shelter set up took priority and before I knew it it was too hot...
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Chicken "Barred Rock" Growing, Chicken "Buff Frizzled Cochin" Growing, Chicken "Rhode Island Red" Harvestin...
21 Oct 2012
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Scattered Clouds 9°C / 48°FDespite having dipped into the long dark season that is Seattle in autumn, winter and spring, two of the new girls have started laying. The girls are all grown up! It delights me to no end! The eggs are so tiny and cute! The darker one is from one of the Black Sex Links. The pale one is from o...
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The Chook's garden and North West garden
30 Aug 2012
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Rainy 6°C / 43°FWhat’s left of the haystack may be past its use-by date, but it won’t be wasted. There is a small mountain of it and half of it has been moved and is waiting in the new garden area. If I can get it incorporated early enough then there should be no shortage of organic matter. The lowe...
