The Weekly Digs #205
We spent most of this Saturday working on our big garden project. Can’t wait to tell you guys all about it in a few weeks, it’s going to be beautiful and functional, or at least that’s the plan! It’s taking a lot of time and planning.
In the Garden
- We started more seedlings this week like Lemon Squash, Honeypatch Squash, Madhu Ras melon, Caribe Cilantro, and some flowers.
- I had some volunteer sunflowers pop up and I replanted them along the back edge of the garden.
- Harvesting asparagus, lettuce (Pirat), kale (Meadowlark), a few carrots although they were small still, leeks (I’m not sure of the variety but I planted them last fall).
- The kids planted more direct seeded things in their gardens like carrots and watermelon.
- Worked on weeding my tunnel, next week I hope to plant some tomatoes there!
In the Kitchen
- Freeze Dried Onions- Got 4 Mylar Bags filled, and another batch going now.
For dinners, we’ve made a ham hock and bean soup with the leeks, carrots, and kale, lot of salads (so good!), Bulgogi lettuce wraps, grilled asparagus with pork and chicken, and had BL sandwiches since there is no “T” available yet. 🙂 I can’t wait for the tomatoes though!
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I love the simplicity of dinners once we hit spring and summer. I am trying to think ahead and figure out some freezer meals for when baby comes but I’m kind of at a loss. We don’t eat much dairy and it seems like most are loaded with dairy or are a soup.
Once it gets hot outside Cam doesn’t like eating soups for dinners. We do have some frozen marinated meats for grilling that are ready to go.
If you have any favorite freezer meals or ideas, I’d love to hear about them!
Turkeys and Chicks
We decided to not get a high protein feed for the turkeys and chicks and instead to do a supplement of soldier grubs to get the protein amount up. We buy the chicken and turkey feed in big bulk 1 ton totes and are using that for the rest of their feed. The turkey’s go crazy for the grubs! They seem very strong and healthy now that we are past the initial shock of them being transported.
Baby
I can’t seem to think of much else that happened this week as far as homesteading things. There could be more but I’m not sleeping well anymore and my brain is not quite at full functioning, haha.
I’ve been spending a little more of my time just making sure I have everything we need for when the baby comes. I don’t really feel ready but we’ve made some progress.
We got rid of all our baby stuff a long time ago and needed to remember and acquire all those things again! Luckily my sister Suzy gave me all her baby boy clothes when we went and visited.
We got the crib and changing table set up in our bedroom. There is not a lot of space let but I still need to find some kind of a rocking chair as well.
My sister Amy gave me a baby quilt she made a long time ago that is so pretty and I took it into our bedroom and realized matches all our other decor perfectly and fits really well in our room. I am going to hang it on the wall above the crib.
I’ll share a picture next week when the makeshift nursery area in our bedroom is set up all the way!
Hope you all had a good week! And thanks so much for all the nice comments you guys leave. They make my day!
