Garden and Chicken Coop May 16-22nd, 2016

Garden and Chicken Coop  

May 16-22nd, 2016

Hello Friends!  We were able to fill our new raised beds.  Dh bought 16 bags of topsoil and a huge bag of peat moss.   Then I luckily found a spot out in our woods where a huge tree had decomposed.  I first brought down two tall paint buckets at a time with the humus, but then I was wearing myself out for little return.  I then thought of using the wheel barrel, filling it with four buckets of humus, and then pushing the wheel barrel up from the woods.  The only problem is that our woods are down hill to get there, and then steep up hill to get back!  What a good way to avoid having to do workouts!!!  I still have another raised bed to fill, plus Dh bought more lumber to put up another one or two beds for us to use for seeds.

This garden has a bit of everything---Dd helped Dh and me this week on our projects.   

 We've put in marigolds around the veggies to help slow down any buggies

Dh checking out my planting after all his coop work.

The coop is coming along:

He still has a lot of space in this room--

Dh is looking forward to having this front part of the barn clear of chicken coop stuff so he can get back to working on his truck---it has a little leak.  But, we still have a ways to go on construction.

All the walls are up!

Dd brought in a few chickens to check out their future coop

Dd put the ceiling fan together

Dh putting in the electrical lines, and this is where the switches for the lights will be-

After the wiring, the insulation, then the plastic...

This was one of the hardest bits, holding up the plastic, trying to match up our holes for the electrical boxes (for the future lights and ceiling fan), and keep out any warping of the board...fun.

While the coop is being built, the chicks are enjoying being in the chicken tractors outside during the day, and hauled back into the garage at night.  Funnily enough, now that the chickens are outside, the barred owls are around a lot more often!  I wonder if they have high ambitions?!

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