morning all! nice and sunny this morning! and THANK you environment canada for not putting out a frost warning yesterday. ARGH! i took the heater out of the greenhouse because the weather said a low of 7. doesn't look like anything froze in the greenhouse but the thermometer says it hit 2C. hopefully things will be okay....sigh. busy long weekend. some birds off to new homes, and one lonely turkey poult hatched (the only one in the incubator because all the turkeys just quit laying), so went in with the 5 day old chicks. a load of ducks locked down, and a pile of guineas put in to the incubator for Bayvistafarm. Collecting again because my ameraucanas and easter eggers are a bunch of slackers. and i have a problem with my EOs. They've decided to double yolk everything this year! so i had one lonely EO hatch from the last batch. odd year.....oh, my turkey that has been sitting forever had a little poult under her yesterday with 3 more eggs to hatch today
yay!
put the lettuce and cabbage and broccoli and brussel sprouts and cauliflower into the garden this weekend. planted the potatoes. and some bean seed since the dirt actually seemed to be a little warmer than before. picking asparagus like crazy YUM! rhubarb has gone insane, actually going to seed already so cut all the seed heads off (i do NOT need more rhubarb!). so made up a couple of rhubarb crisps. should have added more sugar LOL. they're a little tart!
finally the first batch of mealworms were large enough to put into containers for sale! yay! there were 5000+ in the one bin! so did 4 containers of 1000+ each, will see if anyone buys any at the sale this coming weekend. put them in the fridge to slow them down. it's only been 2 months since i got my first beetles and eggs, so this is an apparently very self-renewing resource! i have 6 other bins of mealworms on the go, the second will likely be ready by the end of the week and then the next in another week! they seem very easy to look after and care for.
lost my one rhodebar rooster. his heart gave out....so hoping there's another half decent one in the batch that just hatched. i can tell the boys because they have the white spot on the head, so i'll just keep a few of them and see how they feather in.
been cutting grass like crazy....and will need to find some buckets for watering all the new trees we put in. we've had enough water so far....and supposed to rain again tomorrow??! and looking at the radar i wouldn't be surprised if that actually happens today....it was so cold in the wind yesterday.
must admit i'm looking forward to a little more seasonable weather. we found a pile of wild leeks (they're everywhere!) and morels this weekend too. YUM!