An Early Start to the 2016 Season

Greetings All! Thanks to the mild winter, we are getting an early start to our 2016 garden. Its been dry for the last week-week and a half and I took the opportunity on Thursday 3/24 to lightly turn/harrow most of the gardens. Got the main garden, old potato garden and the corn bed. Turned in some organic material. Mostly leaves and chicken poop. All of the garden plots add up to roughly 3500 square feet.

Main Garden March 2016
Main Garden March 2016. Chicken coop and Fig tree, still wrapped, in foreground. Potato bed right rear.

Also started some seeds indoors: Giant Roma, two types of onion, lettuce, spinach & broccoli.

Starting plants indoors, March 2016
Starting plants indoors, March 2016

Bought a fluorescent fixture from Home Depot and hung it between two mic stands 🙂 Easy to adjust the height!

The chickens have fared well over the winter too. Happy cluckers gives us about an egg a day.

Chickens 3/16
Chickens 3/16

As always, click the photos for FULL SIZE!

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