Gardening and Chicken Fun

As always we are busy with the garden and chickens.  We coop trained the chickens and they are now ready to enjoy some time outside.  The boys (including James) built a fenced in area for them, and a cute little ramp to help them get out.

It took the chickens a little while to decide to descend from their cozy home. 

The boys were pretty proud of their work.  And they love watching the chickens outside!

Hyrum loves watching those chickens.  They also love to feed them scraps from the house.  

The chickens also LOVE eating the clover, so it is a good thing we have a whole field of it.  Even Hyrum gets in on the action.  The boys will spend lots of time doing this.  They are even training the chickens to jump for the clover.  Gotta love it!

James has had fun planting pretty things as well.  Our deck is all cleaned off and looking great!  

Lots of herbs to cook with.  We decided having them close by would be helpful!

New window boxes.  These are very impressive!  Way to go!

We are going big with our garden this year.  We will then preserve as much as we can.  Maybe we can bring our food budget down a little.  Fingers crossed!  

Our berry bushes are looking great!  We won't get a ton this year, but one day.  :)

It is hard to see but we planted 70 tomatoes, 50 peppers and 20 eggplant.  With 80 feet of peas in the background.  Wowzers!  I hope we didn't overdo it! 

Our fruit trees are looking great.  Again we won't get much this year, but in time they will be amazing!  

We do have a few peaches which Jacob is very excited about! 

More peaches!  No canning this year, but hopefully the boys save me one.  

Over here we have onions, brussel sprouts, potatoes and more!

Here are some broccoli, kale, sweet potatoes and more.  I don't think the sweet potatoes are going to make it.  We're not sure why, but they don't look good.  There is also asparagus on the right, but it won't produce for another year or two.   But you have to start sometime!

The beans are looking good!  

And more beans!

Rhubarb is a new one for us.  We'll see how it goes!

Who wants some salad!  Apparently Jacob does!   

There are three rows of corn.  I just can't wait for some delicious fresh corn on the cob!  And those peas are looking great!  

So, yea, that is one huge garden!  It is a good thing we have so many helpers to take care of it.  Once the weeds start coming up we will definitely have our work cut out for us.  This will definitely keep us busy all summer, but once we start getting crops it will be amazing!