Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

Chicken food can be costly.  You don't always know what you are getting.  We have room on our 2 acres to experiement with additional c...

Bean Bed, 2 Weeks after Sowing.  8.8.15  It looks like about 1/2 of the beans germinated.  If they reach maturity before frost, that'...

Earlier this summer, Ning gave away 2 of the post-menopausal hens for pets.  Then another died of unknown causes. Three weeks ago, I bou...

This was a week ago.  I pulled out the marigolds and sweet alyssum.  They were too rank and taking over the bearded iris bed.  The hens at...

Chicken Tractor

Done for the winter.  The upstairs window openings are covered with plastic sheeting, to keep the cold wind out and keep rain from coming in...

This view looks into the chicken fortress. I've built a shelf for the nesting boxes. The nesting boxes are old plastic recycle bins...

The hens will be quite happy with their new house. It's a children's play fortress. There are no children around, so it's a li...

Murder most fowl in the hen house. I've discovered that instead of the usual 3 hens, we now have 2 hens and a pile of feathers. No cal...

I may hve put the peppers and eggplants out too soon. They are not looking as good as I hoped. We'll see if they perk up. The 5 hens are...

Today, 1. I pulled several buckets of weeds from the rose bed / peach bed / raspberry patch. A lot of the weeds were young raspberry plant...

Leghorn lady, hasn't missed laying a large white egg since August. Probably over 180 eggs so far, many times her weight. Rhode Islan...

Now we are past the solstice, so the days will start to lengthen. Even so, the coldest days are ahead of us. Today is bright and sunny, fr...

Tonight it's going to be in the mid 20s. BRrrr. Not much going on in the yard. Last weekend I planted winter onions - very belated. ...

Day off today, lots of homework to do. Fortunatly I have my new home office for that. The schlumbergera are budding profusely. I need to cl...

The hens are settling into a new routine. Today, I cleaned their egg house and hen house and gave them a thick layer of fresh straw. The str...

Ning's Cherries are almost ripe. This is the oldest tree, about 7 years old. The 4-year-old trees just have scattered cherries. The st...

Will need to post pictures later this week - work beckons. Today was a rare event, the 3rd day of a 3day weekend. Spent about 9 hours on hom...

This is where things are currently. The new little Desert King is either quite happy in this location, or it just gets to an earlier start c...