Hello, my little Chickadee!

What do you do when spring comes early? The cold crops got a good dose of 80+ degree weather in the past couple of weeks. The late starts got too much heat too early and are going to resent the cool snap starting tonight.

There is so much to do. The Pilgrim Cranberry bushes went into the ground last week as did several Brussel Sprout plants. Already the lettuce and arugula have taken off and my husband made the most of my travel time. He jiggered the spouts into the rain barrels, scavenged from the dandelion greens for a stir fry, and did a bit of this and that. Now it's time to locate more dirt for our raised beds.

I brought home six pullets just now, cute little drops of Easter chicks. They are peeping in fresh cedar up in my garden room, next to asparagus and broccoli starts. When they can hen peck back at the last two Rhode Island Reds from last year, we'll move them over to the chicken coop. Oh, how wonderful are these early days of spring, as E.B. White noted in Charlotte's Web.

Pictures will be posted soon of the three new species of chicks. The worm farm is outdoors now. I'll post pictures of our rain barrels, raised beds, cold frames, current bushes, and hopefully some scavenged raspberry starts. I bought the rooting hormone this afternoon and will return from my 10 miles in the morning with a quick trip to the nearest patch to cut some starts. In the meantime, here is how to convert some

Food grade barrels into recycled rainwater repositories

Tires to into Worm Farm

Happy Easter, Happy Spring, Blessed Pascha.