Lots of help

Got a lot of help today.  All three kids worked real hard.  My daughter unloaded that big trailer of compost all by herself. 

 My grandson fixed a strawberry bed for me.  First he put down landscaping cloth then he carried bricks and stacked them around the edge.  Next came a layer of hay then he helped his mother fill the bed with compost off the trailer.  Not bad for an eight year old.  The girls and I went down and brought strawberry plants so that is a completed project. 

Yesterday, we started taking the cinder blocks from around the herb garden and placing them in the vegetable garden.  Today I finished moving the rest of them.  I put two layers of bricks where the cinder blocks were.  Makes a much nicer looking herb garden up next to the house which is also brick.  There were some garlic bulb laying out in the garden so I planted them also.  

Planted potatoes and red onions today. Still have to plant the yellow onions tomorrow and then start some seeds inside.  Still too early to plant somethings outside but I can still get them started in the house. 



After we got the potatoes and onions planted and the compost in the garden we took some used chicken wire and created a fence (sorta anyway).  Boy did that make the chickens and ducks mad.  They really told us about not being able to get into the area.  They had been eating worms all day out of the compost.  

The baby chicks are really growing.  Funny looking as their feathers start coming in.  Should be able to put them outside in another week.  At least during the day when it is warm.  I have a cage that my niece made last fall when she was here that is designed just for that purpose.  It protects them from the large chickens but lets them to be around them. 

Did you know?  The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in a lifetime.