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I have put a new blogger site up ...and have moved this site into three different blogs...as of right now....Henni hills Farm...it breaks down into the critters around here, my garden, and Vintage recipes and such....

not been a busy summer..........

I know I haven`t posted in awhile...nothing out of the ordinary has been going on around here...Had our annual trip to St Louis back in Jun..a good report for my youngest. Have hatched out a few chicks, until I just got tired of it , which was about a month ago...shut them both down and rehome one of the incubators...My 4 Muscovy hens have all hatched out something...traded for a solid white with blue eyes drake and another chocolate and white hen...Boss chased off the white drake, in which that is why I traded to beginning with...the new Muscovy hen is named Myiah.

 

                      here are the three ducks I traded for...I had to take the black and white drake as well....

                                           
                                           Here was the white drake...I named it Cotton, until it wandered off or rather Boss took over the all the hens...My idea was to make this one my new drake....I guess I should have penned Boss up...
After about a month ago , when I grew tired of hatching chicks out, I decided I was going to focus more on plants/Garden...and selling plants...So, that is what I have been doing...digging up my rose of Sharon. starts and replanting them and then selling them.

I just couldn`t keep up the demand of the Rose of Sharons`s I still have people wanting them...I tried cuttings ...didn't to do very well with them until lately...Have one the needs to planted...also took cuttings from my yellow and purple mums and have had a great demand for them as well...I also took cuttings from my winter creeper, not very many people know what this is...good thing as I only took one or two cuttings...easy to root..

Also took cuttings from my lavender and creeping thyme...also dug up some my what I call ditch lilies, they were double bloomed this year...
Have also expanded my garden space to include another row of blackberries, hence I didn't really pick very many of those this year....

I haven't really got a good picture of Blackberry lane ( new area of garden , row of blackberries), but it above this area...I have planted climbing roses, 2 different colors on each side of my entryway to this part of the garden and some morning glories ....this picture was token a few months ago...have harvested a few potatoes in a potato tower I built on one of the ends of the two long beds for vegetables and the fence around it on two sides has blackberries and irises...the side separating the two different areas are a couple of grape vines...had one of the vines bloomed and was watching the grapes develop...something got them before I had the chance to harvest them...I have planted sunflowers in the back there, planning on trying to save some seed from them....haven't really got a name for this area of the garden ...thinking about Blackberry something or other....

This is the middle or rather area I have named Strawberry fields...As you can see I have laid carpet down in hopes of keeping the weeds down on the paths....it has worked...my hubby has teased that he gonna to put up a sign to be sure and wipe your feet...in this area of the garden I have made a few changes as well... have dug up some of my irises, not all of them, just one bed of them...I had planted there last year.and putting some daylilies there this year I divided the bed into 2 different beds....both beds will have daylilies in them and have planted about 4 of them in there that I got at Wally world...I have learned that Wally world is not always correct on the names of their plants....neither is Dollar general either...so I am going to try and keep those plants separate...and keep a journal on where I get each plant and what it is named....I did pick up a Daylily at the local K-mart that was going out of business and it`s name is Strawberry fields forever...hopefully since It wasn't in bloom that will be what it is....if not...it still will be pretty in the garden...

So that is basically what I have been doing this summer.....next blog post will probably be the joys of having 2 girls playing 2 different sports at 2 different schools at the same time....yes, that is right.......Everyone have a beautiful , blessed day!

A Walk thru the Garden....

Since I haven't had a garden blog in some while, at least a couple of weeks....I decided to post one....be aware this is photo heavy.....

the above pic is one of the climbing roses....

that one that is doing great.

                                                                  a row of Irises

Here are the two tomatoes plants I have planted with marigolds...they are blooming...
haven't seen any little tomatoes yet.

 

one of the potato's towers

I have this year, this will be as high

as I will built it this year.

 

                                        one of the new blackberry briars planted this year

two different views of the same rose

the second pic you can see the white on it

                                               
                                                             the ice plant in the sink

 

                                                                my two hostas

              
                                               another rose bush. Can you tell I love roses...

                                                                        Sunflowers

 

The other tomato plant I have planted so far this year....its blooming as well...

Hens and chicks in cooler

                                           

 

                                        one of the grape vines I planted last year is in bloom.yay..

 

                                                    mound of Mums

 

                                                           Squash coming up...have planted more

                                                  A row of peppers, green peppers

 

                                                                Another rose in bloom

 

                                                   My creeping thyme and lavender.

 

                                                                 row of leaf lettuce

            first time growing Swiss chard, now to find some recipes to use this in

                                              first time growing broccoli as well

                       

 

just a few more pepper plants...about 4 of these are jalapenos

 

 

my bean plants.

 

Wasn't gonna grow any beans this year until the youngest decided I need to need to...she loves to go out in the garden and just eat them off the bush/vine....

 

have started another afghan ...will post pic soon.

new pet, irises are blooming....others

This is Beauty , our new rabbit, black beauty is her name, just got her yesterday....I know I should have waited to breed her, but couldn't find anything on how long you need to wait when you first get a doe rabbit, So I bred her to Moe, lionhead buck who has Siamese coloring.

Here is my youngest daughters baby bunnies, they are approximately about 3 weeks old...Daddy was Moe, thinking about keeping one of the calicos...she had a total of 7 , we lost one this past week, it was so tiny.....

Some of the baby chicks that I am keeping back as of right now, might rehome a few once they are grown or put in the freezer depending on what they are.....there is Columbian bantam cochins, and some out of my Blue/Splash bantam cochin pen, a couple of EE for my youngest and a few egg layers in there as well....and two buff bantam cochins.
I have turned the heat lamp off during these very warm days, some are almost feathered out and ready to move them out of where I got them at , as soon as a pen is build, never ending project here, lol

                                        Here is one of the Columbian bantam cochin chicks

                                                            Now on to the garden............

       one of my Blackberry  are blooming, I looked at the patch I usually go and pick at, and the farmer has either sprayed or mowed them down....so I will only be picking from the garden this year, I guess. The other blackberries in the garden that are big enough to bloom are beginning to bloom as well.

                              
                     One of the 3 tomato planters I have....decided to plant them in a pot this year
                                                                        so far

My irises are blooming and thinking about it here.....just love my irises....

New chickens....cochins of course....

I rehome two of my roosters...Attitude and another one I have not named.

 

the last picture I have token of these two...when I took Attitude to his new owner, he bit me...I told them that I understood if they didn't want him...needless to say if he came back home he would have met the freezer.

I went to a local swap meet and looking for a barred cochin rooster...the one that I have is not fertile as of yet with his eggs from that pen so, thought I would get another one to hopefully start a buff barred project...only one of the buff hens are laying though...the other two have not yet started laying, their combs are red...my oldest has named the new barred roo Bakbak....and the youngest named the little white hen Sweetheart...she picked her and she just started talking to her...I really don't like the comb on Bakbak...but got this pair since I wanted the white hen....the person I got them off of had another barred roo with a birchen hen...would switch the roos out so I got this one.....she laid me a egg yesterday...I put in the bator to see if is fertile....hopefully this is the roo she has been running with...I forgot to ask that ...they are both fairly young...

Here are two different views from the Chocolate cochin rooster I picked up...initially went back to the person that had this roo to look at a buff roo again and then I saw him.....and thought I needed him....so I asked how they got this color and they said they didn't know I might try and breed him to some white hens to keep getting the color.....I have investigated it further and think I need black hens to put him with to keep this color...so am looking for more black hens...I have one and may put my one birchen colored hen in with him after he is out of quarantine .So will see what he produces from there....

I just had to share my new cochins...also picked up two Buff cochins chicks as well...hope they both are hens, but it would be ok if one is a hen and the other is a roo...

                                      I have this little hen with Bert, My Columbian rooster
                                                         she is not laying yet

                                  Here are my splash/Blue cochin chicks I have held back

These little chicks are out of my Columbian pen, notice the three black ones, I do believe they are out of the birchen colored hen that is in there....

These are some of the egg layers I held back...I got a couple of dozen eggs from a friend of mine and kept these baby chicks back from them....a couple of them are Easter Eggers...My youngest has a Easter Egger hen and wanted me to keep these back for her....she also has a couple little banties and I got them in with a frizzle roo...got a egg from them yesterday and put it in the bator as well...

my prayers go out to all of those that are dealing with the wind damage or tornados that have happened in the last couple of days and is still happening.