Turns out Ester was definitely Lester. The day we left for a trip up to Seattle Lester crowed, poorly, but a definite crow. So we found a new home with hens on a lovely farm through the Urban Farm Store. He will be missed . . . but not as much by anyone as by Mike. (The girls will be fine honey- promise)
Mike cut some lettuce to take to Seattle to our hosts. My sister made a very yummy salad, after she washed out some cabbage worms and soil, with shaved fennel and almond slivers. Warning- shameless sister blog plug: She just may have this salad recipe on her blog- highheeledcontessa@blogspot.com where she shares her amazing recipes with great tips and pics!!
What do you do when you're down one chicken? Get new chicks of course! We wanted many varieties but as chick season has all but expired we settled on what was available. We brought home another Ameraucana (Ester/Lester was this type) and a Black Australorp. The Black Australorp will look a lot like Elanore, only black, because the breed was bred in Australia from Orpington stock. Welcome to the flock youngins.
(left: the new chicks, middle: sometimes Elinore just needs a perch, right: here's what the black australorp will look like grown)
Well we haven't been great about updating on gardening but it isn't that fascinating to discuss little seeds popping up out of the ground. So here are highlights: new tomatoes are doing great with little yellow flowers, something ate my sage but it looks like it is returning, we added purple thai basil this week to join the green stuff, and the beds are all full. Now we are thinking how and where to add more beds- I know!
~Lessons: Seattle Tilth gives classes and a friend of my sister, Donna, said she learned that in urban gardens you can grow veggies closer together in raised beds and to use a five cluster patterns like dice rather than rows. We'll test it out next year.
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