Mud everywhere, so no gardening most of this week, other than cutting asparagus.
Ducks are destined for the freezer Sunday. Their straw, their food, and my patience & tolerance are all running out at the same time. Have to refill both feeders and waterers at least twice, and usually 3 times a day. 4 ducks get 6-7 8 oz yogurt containers of food each time, or at least 3 containers per duck per day; and they get 4-6 2# coffee cans worth of water per day. No wonder they go through so much chopped straw...which ends up tilled into the garden.
Mrs. AR harvested a bunch of the Egyptian walking onions that had taken a hike into an area that needed tilled, just before the rains hit. Really good flavor, though the bulbs are too small for slicing, and the upper half of the stems are too tough to eat. They are good for boiling, then straining out, to add flavor to soup or stew.
Big surprise today was seeing buds on our peach tree, something that hasn’t occurred in all the years we’ve had it. It has died almost to the ground at least 3 times, and come back. I can’t be certain whether it’s the grafted stock that we bought it for, or just a sprouted rootstock any more.
Well, at least you will have some good meat to eat! We have talked about raising chickens from April to fall, and then prepping them for the freezer.
So far we are too lazy to do it, and the neighbors might complain. If we ever put up a privacy fence, we might actually get 3 or 4 for eggs. One of daughter’s neighbors had a privacy fence, and had chickens for years, with no one the wiser.
The other day though, one got out into the road, and spilled the beans.