We finally dried out just enough to plow up the garden and get some seeds planted for our spring/summer garden. Dan plowed the damp earth (probably not dry enough) and rowed up some hills. We planted corn, potatoes, spinach, beets, onions, green onions, pole beans, cantaloupe, carrots, 4 early tomatoes (celebrity), 2 merliton vines, turnips, and mustard greens. We barely got it all planted when the rain came again. Gardening is hard work...I was really tired and sore even though I didn't do that much, only bending and hoeing a little bit. We fudged a little on the timing of planting the tomatoes, hoping it won't freeze too hard and kill them.
The young hens have started laying eggs!! Yipee!! We got four yesterday. Sunday, as we were planting the garden, Dan saw a chicken hawk diving at the chicken pen. We have it covered with chicken wire and he was trying to get in. The rooster was going crazy, running all around. We don't know if he was scared to death or trying to protect his hens, hopefully the latter. When the hawk saw Dan he he lit in a tree and then took off. Thank goodness for the chicken wire cover that Dan put up last year. We were losing chickens as soon as they were old enough to lay. We haven't lost any, since the wire has been up.
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