Chickens in the garden... one day

I have wanted chickens in the garden for a long time. There's something cozy about it, makes you think you're in the country even though you're not. There should be animals in the garden, the right kind of animals and turns out that chickens eat a lot of the wrong ones and gives you eggs and fertilizer.

My dream of chickens forced me to take a walk down to this farmesque place two weeks ago to see if there were any hens out. There was one brave hen out and she seemed very suspicious of me.

Some sowing problems

The best temperature for tomatoes and bell pepper I think is around 20C-25C but in the window where I keep them it gets closer to 35C, even with the window open. And then I forget that the window is open and the sun starts to go down and suddenly it’s 15C instead. Jumping around between 35C and 15C is probably not great for them

Bought some potatoes, “Cherie” and “Amandine” which is French. Put French on it and I want it, it’s the magic word for me. I will make some French potatoes gratiné with leek and garlic, hopefully, this summer. Oh and I have to look into have to save and store some potatoes so I don’t have to buy new one ever year.

Tomatoes and bell peppers

Got the seeds today and planted them right away, 4 pots of each with 2 seeds in each pot. Placed them in the window in a mini greenhouse. I got "Promyk" tomatoes because it said it would bare fruit early, knock on wood. And it of course looks pretty at the seed companies website, mine will not look like that, I know that much.

For bell peppers I got "Marconi Rosso" but I think I might have written Maricon instead on the pots, ooops. It's an early kind and hopefully I will get some bell peppers this year, and tomatoes... and cucumbers but I won't sow that just yet.

(picture from Impecta)

Poppy porn... I have to read this post about how to master growing annual poppies later. It's my favorite flower and I don't have enough of it in my "garden", I feel I have to use "" when I say garden because it's not really a garden but an awful mess.

I need this so bad. A walk in a garden with lavender, surely that would calm me down. But no, snow and ice is still with us, months away before we will see any lavender, unless you count a visit to a garden center. The garden is appropriately named, "Garden of Wellbeing". I want to sit there, no I want to lie down and have cup of tea. I love stone walls in gardens...

Peaceful...

I don't have the space (or the knowledge) for a meadow but look how nice and serene it looks, bet it's even better at dusk and dawn. I want this but I can't have it, like most things I want. Pictures from Arundel Castle are probably by Martin Neil since I took them from his blog called "Ernie and I".