Sweet Pea

Our sheep Sweet Pea is a crazy sheep. She is affectionate! Who ever heard of an affectionate sheep? Especially when she is in heat, she becomes Velcro Sheep. She is particularly into Logan when she is in heat.

There's that anti-social goat again.

Aerogarden week 3 update

We harvested some tonight and each had a salad. Let me just say YUM. The lettuce was tender and crisp. This was good stuff. I harvested less than 1/3 of each pod, according to the directions I should be able to harvest for a few weeks as long as I don't take too much each time. This is the best free toy I've ever gotten!

Aerogarden week 3

I think we are about ready to start harvesting. I can't believe how fast they are growing! Hydroponics is pretty cool.

Not our favorite

We don't play favorites on our farm. And if we did, the worthless wether certainly wouldn't be our favorite ;)

Logan playing push with Orion.

Oh no, Orion got caught in Logan's rear naked choke. Tuck your chin Orion!

Orion managed the escape but is now in Logan's guard.

He's tired of grappling and wants to eat my shoe laces.

Lucky for him he's cute.

Brocolli and ground covers

I finally harvested some brocolli yesterday! I've planted brocolli 4 or 5 times but never gotten to harvest any. It has either gotten eaten, not made heads, or gone to seed before I could harvest it. I guess I've always planted it too late in the spring. So, this time I planted it in late fall. The plants grew well, nothing ate them, and they made heads. Being cold, they never did go to seed. We ate the brocolli last night. I think I waited too long to harvest it. It was stringy and a bit bitter. I was the only one that would eat it. But after growing it, I was darn sure going to eat it! So, I'm still trying to have success at brocolli. One day I will get it right. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Do any of you know anything about ground covers? I have a steep slope in full sun behind the chicken coop. When it rains, the dirt washes into the coop. I want to stop the erosion. Any recommendations for a good, fast growing ground cover I could use?

Cute little eggs

My beautiful little Mille Fleur Chamomile has started laying.


She has the cutest little eggs! Her egg is the tiny one in the middle. We haven't tried one yet, I'm sure they are delicious.

Aerogarden update 1

This is 2 weeks after planting. Things are coming along nicely.

I had to add more water and nutrients on Saturday. It has blinking lights to tell you when to add things. After adding them you are supposed to push the reset button to make the lights stop blinking. I pushed the button 4 times and the lights didn't stop blinking. I hoped the lights would stop blinking overnight but the next morning they were still blinking. I pushed the button 4 more times and still nothing. Getting frustrated, I called Logan over to give it a try. He pushed the button once and all the lights stopped blinking! I have this same problem with touch screens, they never work for me but Logan can always get them to work the first try. I think my body temperature is too low or something. Sometimes I wonder if I'm really alive ;)!