May was a month of getting produce back in the plot in time for this year’s growing season. It was also the month we said goodbye to one of the longest serving members of our little home flock.
Growing food: This year’s beans are in the ground and it feels good. We had started them out in the greenhouse, but with the last of the frosts hopefully passed it was time to move them on.
Keeping chickens: Barbara chicken falls off her perch and so becomes the first of our chickens to die. We think she had been a little under the weather for a week or so and in the end she went very peacefully, simply closing her eyes and keeling over.
Growing food: A surprise showing from the ‘dead’ rhubarb proved that the hunk of root we planted a couple of months back and had since proved thoroughly uncooperative was simply lying dormant.
General: Our unproductive flowers prove strangely rewarding and convince us that you can mix productive and pretty things in a self-sufficient garden. They’re still putting on a good show, and we’ll certainly grow some more next year.
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