Antique and weather distressed!
It’s a great jump-start in the spring, and I’ve had lettuce through mid-December in mild years. Spinach is started in there, and lettuces will be following this week.
Not sure why I love lettuce like I do! I mean, I love salads, but I think lettuces are so unique and pretty. On, ‘Diana’s Useful Scale’ it’s right up there with chickens, LOL!
At my other farm, my wood-framed greenhouse was pretty rickety. In fall it got sun all day, since the trees had dropped their leaves. A branch of a Climbing Rose (’New Dawn’) grew up through it, and I had blooms in early winter, one year. Kinda fun. ;)
Things that are, ‘waking up’ around the Manse:
Rhubarb
Strawberries
Asparagus
Tulips, Daffs and Allium
Perennial Grasses
Sedums
Magnolia
Saskatoon Serviceberry
Haskaps
Roses (which need a quick pruning!)
Spring has definitely sprung: The chickens (11) have been laying like crazy-mad, anywhere from 7-10 eggs PER DAY! We’ve been giving eggs to anyone and everyone and eating a lot of them ourselves. Breakfast casseroles, fried, scrambled, omlettes, Toad in the Hole, Egg Drop Soup, Deviled, etc.
‘Stew,’ the steer, has been released from the barn and is able to do some grazing right now. As soon as Farmer Dan brings the Heifers to our pasture, Stew will go in with them until late fall when he’ll be finished on hay and grain in the barn through next March. However, he will have one very idyllic season to enjoy life. ;)
As may we all!
Antique and weather distressed!
