We covered our broccoli (planted a month or two late and just started to produce some nice heads) with poppy straw from our chickens and all but the largest survived!! Possibly because I wanted to taste the home grown broccoli before it went bad so in the snow I broke off and ate the top head 😬. But now our chickens have thought that garden is the best place to scratch, and I saw a caterpillar so it remains yet to be seen if it’ll survive to produce anything.
One day when I was reading (remotely) with Wheeler we were reading “Grandpa’s Garden “ and he said. “I need to get something.” It wasn’t long and he came back with a handful of those purple leaves. After he munched on a few I asked where he got them. “Out of the garden!” Not the kitchen…the Garden! I know because I heard the door open and close. Great memories!
BTW do y’all have any favorite children’s books on gardening?
We covered our broccoli (planted a month or two late and just started to produce some nice heads) with poppy straw from our chickens and all but the largest survived!! Possibly because I wanted to taste the home grown broccoli before it went bad so in the snow I broke off and ate the top head 😬. But now our chickens have thought that garden is the best place to scratch, and I saw a caterpillar so it remains yet to be seen if it’ll survive to produce anything.
One day when I was reading (remotely) with Wheeler we were reading “Grandpa’s Garden “ and he said. “I need to get something.” It wasn’t long and he came back with a handful of those purple leaves. After he munched on a few I asked where he got them. “Out of the garden!” Not the kitchen…the Garden! I know because I heard the door open and close. Great memories!