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Here's an update on some of my stuff. I have 16 ducks eggs already and its only been 5 days of picking them up in the orchard around the pond. These will more than fill the incubator up so it is imperative that I buy a new one. They are holding in an evaporative cooler (metal popcorn tin with wet towel draped over it) to keep them as close to 60F hold temp as possible until they go into the incubator. I have 26 others in 2 batches already in the incubator. I'll be candling all of them tonight to check viability.
The entire property needs weeding and weedeating. I just haven't had time/energy after all the soil mixing the past 2+ weeks.
8 rows of the main garden, left to right going down,
1: salad/potherb greens, mostly Fordhook giant swiss chard, and random volunteers from last season. tomatillos in the back half with a massive chard going to seed.
2: Spearmint up front with some mountain mint, blueberry cuttings, wintergreen plants, garlic, more spearmint, and big bushes of lemon mint.
3: red and white onions with Italian red pear tomatoes. I just got the cattle panel up and need to tie up the plants.
4: Just lots of garlic.
5: Several types of mint. Catnip, horsemint/bee balm, peppermint, epazote in the pots, concord grapes that are to be moved in the fall. This is the grape's 2nd year and they are loaded with grape blossoms already.
6: 2 Volunteer sunflower plants and several pepper plants. Hungarian wax, Gypsy bell, and King of the North bell.
7: Peanut plants, asparagus volunteers, and sweet potatoes. Only a few sweet potatoes have popped up. Weeds have swamped the peanuts, but are slowly getting under control.
8: Just lots of elephant garlic and the terror that is hedge bindweed...
