Chris and Steve's Weblog – City Chickens

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I’m afraid it was still too cold even in the lean to. My beautiful cucumber plant was looking decidedly poorly when we popped to the plot this evening. The first butternut squash was holding its own so we planted another one further along in the same bed.

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Well the seedlings certainly had a good watering in the early hours of today. The rain was very heavy and temperatures as the morning has progressed are getting better. The incubation continues well and we now have four silkie chicks in with the two pekins. Still nine eggs left though. I am not sure how [...]

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This is what I saw when I went downstairs this morning. Our first two pekin bantam chicks. Then later on this afternoon Libbie came to say hello.

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This afternoon we put in some onion sets given to us by Trevor. I planted the Blue Pansies in front of the shed door and one of the Butternut Squash in the nursery bed. At last we have got the cucumber Carmen settled into the lean to which Rob has repaired and made secure. Great [...]

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It is day nineteen of our first attempt at incubation. As instructed I have stopped the egg turning mechanism and increased the humidity level to 60%. The weather continues to be cold, windy and wet. I am still nervous about putting any cucumber plants into the lean to. I don’t want to lose them at this stage. [...]

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I had a lovely day yesterday as my son Sean and his partner Debbie came to visit. They brought an enormous bunch of Rhubarb from their garden. The leaves were massive. They are veggie growing nutters too so we all went down to the plots to join Rob who was working hard digging over the [...]

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Another beautiful sunny day. So much for watching the weather forecast. Robs first job was to dig up the last of the parsnips from last year and a couple of leeks. Next we planted five Calabrese Marathon plants in the old brassica cage. We then scattered some feed around and a good few slug pellets [...]

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Well, we were lucky and the weather was good for us to start the tunnel this morning. After a few adjustments to our original plans we have sunk in the base tubes and put up the six plastic tubing arches. So far so good. We came home aching but happy. Its not easy to measure [...]

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  We managed to dodge the heavy rain yesterday afternoon and get the peas Fortune and the sweet peas planted. There were forty four pea plants and they just fitted around the inside of the old brassica cage. They will be safe from the pigeons but I am sure they will fall prey to slugs and [...]

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