The Chickens must go

Well, we are definitely heading into chicken abuse territory now. They are probably a little less than pound each now and the boxes we have them in are just way too small. We went to Denver over night last night and one of the chickens made a break for it. Luckily we had them separated off by themselves in the dining room so Finn and Bella did not get their lucky day, but they had also knocked over their food and water in the malay that must have ensued during the great escape. So they were pretty excited to see some new water, after the ten minutes it took me to recapture Ms. Scatch-Alot, she's a wiley one. So we're going to try and get a couple more boxes together and put them out in the garage, partly so they can harden up temperature wise and partly because M had a bad dream about the chickens causing some sort of terrible disease in a small child. We should be done with the coop this week, just a couple pieces to get together before the big construction day. Then they will be living the high life in their chicken condo. I hope to post plans, especially considering all the dam time and effort that went into this thing. No-one should have to go through that if they don't have to.

We up-potted some more tomatoes and will have to bring them upstairs, as we are running out of room under the grow lights in the seed room. Lots of peas and garlic and radishes are coming up in the back forty. I've been making some progress on weeding out the dandelions by our front raised beds, but it is definitely a project which makes one pine for a nice warm bottle of Round-up.

Well here are a couple of the promised photos of the seed room.

Lots of action going on, definitely some things we planted a little too early, like the Morning Glories, which are starting to vine up and try to attached to each other. The leeks and fennels are looking good and lots of peppers and cucumbers and melons are starting to leaf out. We need to get the boxes filled soon, so the soil can come up to temperature. I got an adapter head for the sprinkler to change it from regular to a drip system. Hope it works, or we'll be spending a lot of time watering all these plants.