Angst, what a striking lettuce! All very pretty.
I wish I had those strawberries, I would make them with peaches in a pie. (The dark berries are too strong for peaches.)
My garden is, as always, rough. Always left to fend for its self too much - just out and all the poor kale seedlings were wilted flat from lack of water - young Savoy cabbages too - but the pump soon was irrigating it - I have really bad drip lines on some, and hose for others. My electrics having an intermittent ground short that is really annoying so I did not water yesterday as the breaker the garden pump is on was popped and I have to go inside the house to re-set it.
The fish have not been fed for a couple days and boil the water. I would not go swimming in the pond till they are fed, and still always wear clothes swimming as they do bite sometimes.
Plant boxes still not built - my wife is driving the truck to work and the salvaged wood is in the back, a good excuse. I do not want to unload it as the scrap is ugly, and I use the tailgate as my work bench.
Harvesting almost nothing - couple peppers, most of the varieties I planted are too hot for my wife, although just right for me, so they go to the chickens who eat anything. Lately we have been filleting a lot of fish, filling the freezer a bit as the fishing is easy this time of year - and the belly meat and skin is cut off and thrown to them, and being the little dinosaurs they are, they run madly chasing each other, the tiny chicks will get tight into the scrum and fight for a bit of it - then off with the others after it. And soon it is all gone. Chickens may not have teeth but they can cut stuff up and choke it down. I gave them a pound of fish scraps and it was gone in a minute - they love fish - having eaten it from says after hatching - being on the bayou I always give them some kind of thing I net or waste from processing seafood. A big pile of shrimp shells and heads soon disappears. They spend their days in the woods and on the road side grazing, and have finally discovered the garden surrounding the pond - which cannot be good.
The bad chickens seen from my house drive way. Chickens come up with lots of ideas; all of them bad. I keep flower planters right where I took this picture and have to plant things they do not like much - although the dogs are trained to run them back into the woods if they come closer to the house than this. The little brown Chihuahua loves this - will always attack a chicken when allowed, and often when not. I only have to say "Bad Chickens!" and the flock will begin running and the dogs attack - it is great to watch, and although the chickens run shrieking and flapping from the charging dogs they are really not afraid at all. My chickens are all hatched here and know the dogs all their life. The dogs will also charge off (4 dogs) when they hear anything attacking the flock and sort it out - so the chickens actually like having the dogs around, and trust them but for the chasing from the garden. We have a big variety of predators and free chickens could not exist without the dog pack.
)
