Garden roundup for 2024

During 2024, our chickens laid a total of 818 eggs, of which 616 made it to the house, which works out to an average of about a dozen eggs a week.  Of course, between the age of the hens and the cold weather, we haven’t gotten any eggs since about Thanksgiving.  I don’t know if they’ll start laying again in a few months once it warms up again or not.  Either way, we’re making plans on getting some peeps in a few months to have a new set of egg layers. 

Something I had planned to do, was to have a post listing everything we canned or froze this year.  Unfortunately, my mom keeps a list of everything on a legal pad, and I can’t find it.  I think it got moved somewhere in the cleaning before Thanksgiving.  As is likely, I’ll probably stumble across it in a day or two.  But when I do find it, I’ll make the post to show how much food we were able to grow and store this year.

Probably the only other garden news are my four raised beds.  I’ve been thinking of getting some for the last few years, and I finally got around to it.  My plan had been to have them all built and filled by now so that they would be ready to go come spring.  But between doing 800 other things and wet weather and whatnot, I only have two that are mostly filled and a third that is built.  Some week when it isn’t too cold I’ll have to get around to building the fourth one, and hopefully I can get them filled before planting season.  So I should have posts on them in 2025.

I hope you all had a good 2024, and hopefully we all will be able to grow more in 2025.  Since not much happens garden-wise here in winter, my next update will be in March.