Fall Garden is still producing....

As you may have figured out, we love gardening and the farm life.  We pulled into the driveway of our new home on 13 May.  What a great Mother's Day gift :)  Most people would be worried about getting their house in order but not the Lambings.  Lol!  Our priorities were getting a chicken coop built and a garden planted.  There would be plenty of time to unpack boxes.

Papa Roo got him a fine new tiller and went to tilling.  We got our fall garden planted on the Fourth of July weekend.  We knew nothing about this area, the soil, what grows well or doesn't, so we were not even sure if our little garden would produce.  Sticking with what our family likes, we planted peas, green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers.  No garden would be complete without flowers :)  Before we knew it, the garden was producing rather nicely.  Papa Roo continued to research and read about various ways of planting and other crops that we might like.  After all, this is what we want to do in our retirement life.

Beginning garden in July

Cucumbers are looking good

Giant Tomato plant

The two green thumbs of the family

Fresh Green Beans

Yummy Cucumbers

Lots of Peas

Now it is mid October and this little garden is still producing.  Yesterday, Papa Roo picked about a half bushel of Italian Green Beans, a good family size helping of peas, about ten tomatoes, and several jalapeños.  Oh, and we even have a few ears of corn from our experimental planting method.   Not bad for our first garden here in VA.

Tomato plant is hanging in there 

A portion of what was picked 8 October 

See our corn in the back

Looking good

Chicken Girl's beautiful flowers

 I don't have a picture but we even have some potato plants that are looking awesome.  We plan to put a hoop house over them so they can survive after the first frost.  Another experiment  that Papa Roo read about.

New Life on the Farm

Today was a special day here at the Quad L Farm.  One of our Columbian Rocks went broody and we now have our first baby fuzz ball :))

Momma Bess and Fuzz Ball #1

When we realized that Bess was broody, we collected eggs over the next couple of days and put them under her.   We gave here 11 eggs :)  I was able to candle them about three days ago and saw movement in all of them.  Hens are always better with the incubation process than a homemade incubator.

Because we were unsure of the exact day she started sitting on the first few eggs, we had to guesstimate the hatch date.  Chicks hatch in 21 days.  We were thinking Wednesday was going to be the magic day but obviously we were off by a couple of days.  This evening I went to check on her and was trying to figure out what she had stuck on here beak (a feather), and all of a sudden, I see the little fuzz ball stick it's head out.  Yippee! Yay!  We had a surprise :)))

Momma is feeding her baby :)

Chicken Girl and I sat down at the coop and watched as Momma Bess gently called her baby to come out and then she gently fed her some food.  God's creations are so awesome!!!  Love, love, love watching His creations in action :)  My heart is singing tonight :)))