HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
 It all began with a Seed then Turned into a seedling

I lost a lot of my plants after placing them in the sun and wind when they were really little.  :(

 Squash plant in a homemade planter my boys made from a tire.

 Bed #3 4x8

  My first Roma tomato that has turned red!  Can't wait to taste it.

 Bed #2 also 4x8

 Bed #1  Also 4x8 This was the first bed we built.  Those cucumbers wilt a little in the heat of the day but by the evening they perk back up.  I worried at first but it's their routine.  My broccoli didn't do anything but i will try again in the fall.  Someone mentioned that it got to hot before it could produce fruit. Live and learn. 

 Yellow Squash

 Bush pumpkin

 Melon

 Peanut plants.  A trial

 Melon

 Squash

 Melon

 Squash

 Angle view of all three beds.  Look at those tomatos

Dragon Bean bud

Dragon Beans

 Hilbilly Tomato

Bell Pepper

My garden is looking amazing, (if I do say so myself).

Garden

 My cool weather plants are looking beautiful!

Now for my Chicken Coop

That's right,  I have a chicken coop!!!  hehe.  I mentioned that I have been wanting one.  My reasoning is I would like to have the experience and the fresh eggs and the extra responsibilities for the kids.  Well the original thought was just get full grown chickens at the swap-meets in little surrounding towns, then we got excited and ended up buying some little chicks from the farm store.  They were cute last week. lol  they are not as cute now but hopefully we will do everything correctly and have beautiful chickens in about a year.   Yep a year.  But they are suppose to start laying eggs @ about 6 months old.  We shall see how they do.   My amazing husband (as I love to call him) recently completed a job where someone was getting rid of their shed.  So to my surprise he pulls up after work with this building on his trailer.  Saying it's going to be the chicken coop.!  Not exactally what I was hoping for, I was hoping that my boys could build one for me, the dream house of chicken coops.  LOL  I had been taking pix of them collecting ideas from the internet and had a special folder on my computer for this purpose.  ;)  But I am very please with my coop.  Our neighbor tells us that's not a coop it's a chicken mansion.  I hope the chickens think so and produce a wealth of eggs!!!!!!!!!  We have 4 chickens and 1 Rooster so far.  Plus 6 little chicks.  LET THE FUN BEGIN!!!!!!