Atop the pizza box

As you can see, they're outgrowing their pen. I bet they'll be ready
to go outside Monday morning, when I come back from Wisconsin. I
figure they need to be unable to squeeze through a chainlink fence,
which may be for a while yet, but I think they've grown just today. If
grass and such is kept tall next to the fence maybe they'll be
stymied...

Lookit them grow

Canary in the spring frost

As I drive around it doesnt look like real farmers have planted their
corn yet. This might yet get waxed but for now it's at about the same
level as corn planted in the greenhouse.

Chardonnay

Tough chick

The load-in

Loud Box

Ding!

The Call

I got it last night. Our unspecified assortment of fifty chicks is in
the mail, and I should expect it tomorrow morning. Time to go plug up
critter holes and make the corral in the doghouse, which will be the
brooder.

Peanuts

Peanuts going live----

Corn Action Now

This picture may or may not look silly to someone more experienced
than me but I am planting some Bloody Butcher corn in these the mounds
at the center of the BB cornfield. In a few weeks beans will be
planted to climb up the corn and squash and melons in the spaces
between. I don't know if this is seriously undercultivated or not. The
"topsoil" underneath is very soft and I expect to hoe anyway.
Hopefully the kinks will be worked out for the PLANTING PARTY time
TBA. I'm thinking Friday the 17th or the next day.

Water etc.

Jugs are our hose for now until I fix the inside shutoff valve for the
outdoor hose, hopefully today. My dad's old table saw which isn't
staying here, and a comfrey division from Ecosystem Farm in Accokeek,
where Liza is working. It hyperaccumulates nutrients and grows like
mad. It was half the size two days ago. Mulch and compost tea plant.
Never grown it before but see it in every permaculture garden.

Hole

I need to put some chicken wire on the bottom...

Potato towers

Double-digging potato towers. The uprights are old tobacco sticks for
hanging leaves. Bad news if they have tobacco mosaic virus on them...