So. Ever since a bunch of you mentioned I should get a flock of guinea fowl to help with the tick situation, and after watching/listening to a video of them, every time I would go out to the garden after that, I totally thought I was hearing guinea fowl off in the distance.
Before watching the video, I thought it sounded like turkeys.. but I was like, WHO WOULD HAVE A BACKYARD FULL GROWN TURKEYS IN APRIL?
Well guess what? Turns out the sound I was hearing wasn’t guinea fowl after all, it was indeed WILD TURKEYS and there is a whole rafter of them living up in the woods behind our property. Ask me how I know this? C’mon … ASK.
Well, while little Miss Gladys Kravitz was staring out the window the other morning, two turkeys walked by our window and off into the woods behind the house. AND SHE FLIPPED OUT like nobody’s business!
We’ve decided to name them, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Gobble gobble.
Teepee season, it’s one of my favorite times of year and Lucy and I are just getting started! There is some sort of garden patch to the side of the potting shed with 6 garden beds outlined in rock borders. I think I am going to condense those 6 little gardens down to two larger ones and do some sort of mass planting in each one.
So far within those gardens I’ve discovered a galizzion raspberry plants of death {with MAJOR thorns}, oregano, scallions and a bunch of flower bulbs. Obviously, I’ll have to wait until the flowers bloom to see what they are, and if I’ll want to move them or not.
The thorn packed raspberry patch? It’s going. Why? Because there are a ton of raspberries of death towards the back of the property and I don’t want them attacking us on a daily basis while Lucy and I putter around the potting shed and lower garden area.
When we lived in Washington we always grew Cascade Delight raspberries. The thorns were minimal and picking fruit was easy peasy. The raspberry plants we have here though, I can tell already they will rip your skin out if you brush up against them. And I’m not too excited about that. I haven’t had too much time to do research on a good {thornless} variety to grow here in New England, but so far Nova is looking hopeful. If you have any favorites, please chime in.
Can anyone identify this plant? We have a boatload of them around the property and I would love to know what they look like in full bloom.
I discovered a rhubarb plant the other day! Giddy up. I cleaned up the surrounding area and planted the 3 rhubarb plants I ordered from Johnny’s near the one I found.
And what’s this? Could it be 7 mature blueberry plants? Oh please say it is so!
Also, I cannot seem to STOP picking up twigs. I have this crazy idea that I will NEED THEM ALL come winter when the ground is covered with snow and so now I’m trying to figure out how to store 6 months work of twigs {kindling} for the wood stove. Any ideas? At first I was thinking about getting 180 lunch sack sized paper bags and filling each one with twigs. You know, one for every day that we will be using the wood stove over the next year. But that seemed a little ocd. So now what?
In other news… I hauled a few of pots and trellises out of the barn the other day along with some of our outdoor furniture and set up the courtyard and back patio area. Now all I need is a little potting soil so I can get the sweet peas planted.
This place. It’s starting to come together! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a WONDERFUL Tuesday everyone, enjoy the day.
~Mavis
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