A day about the Garden

Sunday was a beautiful day.  We had church in the morning where Dann & I are wrapping up teaching Dave Ramsey's Generation Change program to the middle and high school kids, followed by a fundraiser for the East Aurora Cooperative Market featuring local author and gardener extraordinaire Sally Cunningham.  Dann bought me Sally's book Great Gardening Companions for Christmas - it is a great book on how to use plant combinations to confuse unwanted insects and have a chemical free vegetable garden.  It is critical in our planting plans for this coming growing season!

After Sally's presentation we came home and let the laddies out.  I went and worked the compost some while Dann kept watch on the ladies with an eye to the sky for any unwanted guests.  Fortunately we did not notice any hawks this time out. 

The compost has a ways to go but I find it therapeutic to turn it and see the progress that is being made.  Random patches of what appear to be dirt amongst completely non-decayed patches of leaves and grass. A good turning and recovering with black plastic will hopefully help re-energize the heat and get it cooking again after the cold winter.

The ladies have been so happy as of late - enjoying many evening outings where they have assisted with turning our planting beds for us.  Stick those 12 little legs in a planting bed and they will have it degrubbed and the soil turned over in no time! 

Wimpy did go broody on us again this past week.  This is the 3rd time since January.  I feel so bad - we do not have any fertilized eggs and in all honesty are not in a position to add to our flock either, but she just wants to be a mamma.  A co-worker suggested we rename her Big Mamma, not a bad idea actually!  She looks so harried - missing some tail feathers and appearing generally unkept.