Ken has been moving portable shelters and coops to the garden. Why? Well, it is not only easier to feed everyone in one location fairly close to the house all winter, but also each of the poultry breeds by their nature will help us grow vegetables more easily next season! Geese will take out weeds. Chicken also take out weeds and weed seeds and any remaining insects. Turkeys will scratch the soil and …
Ken has a set of radio headphones. He really enjoys folk music, so most Sundays he sets them for Wisconsin Public Radio’s Simply Folk show and heads out to garden or field. This week he is going through the walkways in the garden with his wheel hoe It is a two handled tool that has one wheel and various attachments – one has tines one has a pointed …
The garden is in constant change. Crops grow, fill out, are harvested. New crops are planted and the cycle begins all over again. For me it is like an ever changing quilt of different colors, textures and shapes. After each rain, once the soil is dry enough to work Ken goes through and cultivates. Today he was using a wheel hoe and seemed to be …
Ken has been trying to work around the weather. It sounds a bit like Goldilocks and the Three Bears – too wet, too cold, just right. He finally got to put in several seedlings and now there are rows of small plants. Soon they be large and form canopy and fill the garden with green. With the last “weather event” of nearly 2 1/2 inches in under an hour, and close to 6 inches …
