This year we've had a few garden success's and failures, last week we had a comically epic garden fail, to blame - the hens. Our little spud/cabbage patch is tucked away behind the garage which means it doesn't get the best sun but is easy to shut off from the hens. Or so we thought, the crafty wee feckers got in and totally annihilated every single plant!!! They looked so cute and innocent when I caught them that I had to laugh, I mean look at their wee faces who could be mad :)
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So we just left them to it (may as well at this point!) and dug them all up the next day. It was quite a disappointment since most of the spuds were literally grape size, still super tasty though!
Our garden success to report is our peas, they rocked! We didn't plant that many either, maybe a square meter if you put the 3 patches together and the batch we picked lasted 3 meals (big pea portions) we were really happy with them :)
This year for the amount of time spent I think our garden has provided us really well with fresh veg, the main gardening months here (the last 3 months) I've slept practically every spare minute I've had so any gardening has really been all Al and he's done really well to keep it going. We've kept to our no lettuce year promise (buy no lettuce at all for 2012 - grow all our own) and we've started no bread year too, so far about 2 months with baking all our own :)
Speaking of bread I actually must go make some now for lunches tomorrow...
The chickens think the garden is all for them...aah..I think they appreciate it!
ReplyDeleteJane x
Yeah they seem pretty pleased with themselves! We still love them though :)
DeleteYou gotta love hens! Ours destroyed our silver beet, beetroot & lettuces last summer :( Those peas look really good, I'm not so good at growing them. Sx
ReplyDeletelol sounds about right, they have no respect! Peas seem to be so so easy to grow here, must just be made for irish weather :)
DeleteOh the little devils - still as you say, you can't be mad, look at them - all innocence !
ReplyDeleteI've given up gardening this year anyway, the weather won !
Yeah its not been a great one for gardening, next year will be better :) This summer I was too busy sleeping! next summer I'll be on maternity leave so hopefully I'll get a good run at it :) x
DeleteThe joys of having chickens! we had to build ours an enclosed area, they were destroying everything, seem happy enough though x
ReplyDeleteYeah that does seem smart... We thought they'd spend most of their time in the old spud patch as its all dug up and great for bugs and worms etc but they still seem to prefer the lawn lol x
DeleteJust catching up Astra. Oh, this post made me laugh, yes they look so innocent!
ReplyDeleteWell done on eating the spuds anyway.
And on the success of your peas, delicious! We've planted mostly spuds and onions this year. They've done really well.
Sft x