タグ: Garden

▶ July 9, 2022 Sowing Grain in the Playground — and a Chick in the Duck House Parsley grows new feathers, our curled-foot duckling rejoins her siblings, a chick panics in the duck house, and I sow sprouting grain… ▶ July 6, 2022 A Rooster Found Abandoned, Just Like Kirin — Plus Feed Day The cucumber seeds all sprout, we stock up on chicken feed, and I take in an abandoned rooster who seems to have… ▶ July 4, 2022 Cucumber Day: Taro Gets My Finger, and Snacks for the Grannies A big cucumber harvest for the flock — Taro pecks my finger hard, Jack shares with everyone, and I chop tiny pieces… ▶ July 2, 2022 Our Finger Limes Have Buds! Repotting with Homemade Compost You asked how the finger limes are doing: they're bushy and covered in pink buds. Today I repot them into farm soil… ▶ July 1, 2022 Rain Sends the Chickens Running — and We Dig a New Garden Bed A sudden downpour sends the chickens back indoors (the ducks don't mind), then we clear and plow a new patch for corn,… June 30, 2022 Farm Notes — June 2022: Parsley the Duck, a Peacock Family and a Rainbow Thirteen clips from June: Muscovy ducks, a cartoon-like duckling, Parsley looking back, fresh cucumbers and lettuce, a peacock family, a cane toad… ▶ June 29, 2022 Pool Rehab for Our Duckling — and How to Grow a Pineapple Top Our duckling with the curled foot comes back from home care and starts swimming rehab, new cucumber seeds sprout, and the old… ▶ June 27, 2022 Pumpkins vs. the Heat — and a Summer Garden Update A tour of the summer garden, a little wild chick who is growing slowly, and a pickaxe-cracked pumpkin feast that the whole… ▶ June 25, 2022 So Many Ducks! Garden Blooms and a Duckling’s Leg Treatment A water station for picky ducklings, sweet peas and broccoli flowers in the garden, and a duckling with a curled-up foot gets… ▶ June 22, 2022 Garden Lettuce for the Flock — and Meet Parsley the Duckling Fresh lettuce from the garden is a hit again, Beanstalk the rooster rolls a duck egg, and meet Parsley, a duckling who… ▶ June 20, 2022 How Our Middle Chicks Settle In — and a Stray Who Wants to Move In? Fermented feed for breakfast, nervous young chicks perching up high, a lettuce free-for-all, Marron's changing voice, and a stray chicken helping itself… ▶ June 11, 2022 Broccoli on the Broccoli, a Baby Papaya and Chick Playtime Our broccoli finally made a broccoli, a blueberry starts turning purple, five wild-born chicks join playtime, and a friend plants a baby… ▶ June 1, 2022 Meet Shiro, a Survivor — and Dolly Raids the Garden Again Meet Shiro, a snow-white rooster rescued from a parking lot with eyeworm. Then Dolly eats the cucumbers I'd been waiting for, so… ▶ May 25, 2022 What’s This Called Again? Protecting Our Melons from Bugs Bugs have found our melons, so I cut away the rotten fruit and tied a little cradle of non-woven fabric around a… ▶ May 16, 2022 A Rainy Day at the Coop — the Ducks Are Loving It Real rain at last: Mint and Chive lay eggs and splash about, the chicks meet their first rain, the garden gets a… ▶ May 13, 2022 Melons Growing — and Meet Marshmallow, Our Not-So-Gentle Orpington The melons are growing, and Marshmallow the Buff Orpington proves the breed books wrong: she screams, kicks and pecks. Plus the story… ▶ May 11, 2022 Who Lives in the Broccoli? — and Meet Yukinko, Our First Blue Egg Mystery holes in the broccoli, our first tomato flowers, and Yukinko — the Easter Egger who plucks her own tail and laid… ▶ May 10, 2022 Fresh Cucumbers, a Tiny Melon — and Meet Trumpet the Guardian A good cucumber harvest, a tiny bug-nibbled melon that's already melon inside, and Trumpet, the rooster found peeping under a trash bin… ▶ May 9, 2022 First Blueberries, Melon Flowers, Tiny Cucumbers — and Meet Bug 2 The blueberry bush finally has fruit, the melons finally have female flowers, little cucumbers are forming, and meet Bug 2, an orange… ▶ May 7, 2022 Our New Quail Lay Their First Eggs — Each with Her Own Pattern First eggs from our two-month-old quail and why every quail's eggs have their own pattern, plus a harvest of strawberries, a cucumber… ▶ May 3, 2022 Our First Ripe Strawberry, Salaryman on Patrol — and Meet Punya A young rooster breaks out of his cage, Salaryman plays security guard, we harvest (and taste) our first real strawberry, three new… ▶ May 2, 2022 Pruning Cucumbers, Tiny Ponyo — and Meet Pro Wrestler A cane toad in the water dish, cucumber pruning with the chicks, a new baby chick named Ponyo, and Pro Wrestler —… ▶ April 25, 2022 Our Wobbly Chick Gets a Name, Mint’s Second Egg — and Meet Namiko One week on, our wobbly chick isn't wobbly anymore — meet Chako! Plus cucumber and honeydew flowers, Mint's second duck egg, and… ▶ April 24, 2022 First Lettuce Harvest, a Homemade Feeder — and Meet Poppy 2 Some lettuce started to bolt, so the chickens got our first harvest. Plus a homemade feeder that holds about 30 kg, a… ▶ April 23, 2022 Rainy-Day Dolly, Romaine and Cucumber Flowers — and Meet Shachi Pumpkin works hard to lay, Dolly hides from the rain, the romaine is huge, the cucumbers bloom and the chicks get a… ▶ April 20, 2022 Papaya Day, Dolly in the Garden — and Meet Iruka I knock down a neighbor's papaya with a bug net and share it with the flock, Dolly helps herself to my tomato… ▶ April 18, 2022 Piccolo Keeps the Peace, and a Finger Lime Comes Home Piccolo breaks up a squabble at the nest boxes, I finally find the finger lime seedlings I've wanted for years, and meet… ▶ April 12, 2022 Banana Speed-Eating, a Weed Buffet, and Meet Piccolo We time the flock's banana speed-eating, Glico and Purin try a weed buffet, and Piccolo — once believed to be a girl… ▶ April 10, 2022 Meet Moo-chan, the Kicking Rooster — Plus a Very Busy Nest Box Chicks learning to get along, a nest box full of hens, a new hose nozzle for the garden, and Moo-chan, a rooster… ▶ April 6, 2022 Who Spilled the Mealworms? A Garden Update — and Meet Grey A morning walk through the farm from my point of view, a mealworm mystery, a new chick playground, a big garden update,… ▶ April 4, 2022 A Rescued Duck, a Tricky Sprinkler — and Meet Big, Easygoing Luna We rescued a white duck we spotted flying by the road, freshened the duck house, wrestled with a new sprinkler, and met… ▶ April 1, 2022 100 Subscribers! Planting Rare Mugwort — and Meet Little Flare We passed 100 subscribers! I explain US egg sizes, plant mugwort (rare in Hawaii) as a natural dewormer, hand out eggshell calcium,… ▶ March 31, 2022 How I Give a Chicken a Health Check — and Meet Poppy A step-by-step chicken health check with a very unimpressed Nuts, cucumbers finally planted, four lost chicks, and Poppy, who lays small olive… ▶ March 30, 2022 Wood-Chipper Mulch Makes Fluffy Beds — and Meet Hare-chan We turned branches into mulch for soft, bug-filled chicken bedding, the strawberries bloomed, chicks met the quail, and I explain how Hare-chan… ▶ March 29, 2022 Repotting Calamansi, Baby Quail Arrive — and Meet Kin-chan A rainy day: our calamansi gets a bigger pot, four baby jumbo quail move in, and I tell the story of Kin-chan… ▶ March 27, 2022 Beer Grains for the Flock, Music for Dolly — and Meet Glico A craft brewery gave us spent beer grains for the chickens, the garden gets lettuce and broccoli, Dolly tries some music, and… ▶ March 26, 2022 Bananas Arrive, Tomatoes Go In — and Meet Sonata, My First Rooster A friend brought two banana plants — the first big plants on our farm. We also planted tomatoes (Kiwi tasted one right… ▶ March 22, 2022 Tomato Sprouts, Dolly’s Panorama Eyes — and Meet Shi-chan A crop of tomato sprouts changes the garden plan, Dolly shows off her sheep's-eye view, we pin the fence down against escapes,… ▶ March 20, 2022 Seedling Check, Dolly’s Bald Patch — and Meet Brownie The first tomato sprouts are up, Dolly's new white wool peeks through, the cultivator takes on more roots, and I introduce Brownie,… ▶ March 18, 2022 Feed Day, Seed Sowing — and Meet Nazoko, the Mystery Chicken Hauling six big bags of feed, a scratch-grain treat for the flock, sowing pansies, sweet peas and tomatoes, and the story of… ▶ March 16, 2022 A Bride for Basil, the Cultivator vs. the Rocks — and Meet Oreo Basil the duck meets the Muscovy bride I brought home, the new cultivator turns up a mountain of rocks, and I tell… ▶ March 15, 2022 Pulling Weed Roots with Chicken Helpers — and Meet Okki-chan Moo-chan is put to work, Dolly keeps the cut grass tidy, I finally pull out a giant weed root, and meet Okki-chan,…