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Beautiful May afternoon and I have been busy washing the car and working in the front yard. As I haven’t hit the shower yet and it is quite warm, I decided to check the backyard sprinklers to make sure they are all running as intended. This process usually involves me getting quite wet as I move around adjusting them as they are running. The above photo shows me drying out a bit. I did not mind but I am not so sure about the girls. As the sprinklers in their yard usually run at night they just stood there getting wet during the test. I guess they thought it was some weird weather phenomenon where rain comes even when the sun is shining. Actually I don’t believe that. I believe they are just bird brains that don’t even think. They have a dry coop they could have retreated to but did they? Of course not.

This photo is so that I can track the growth of the tomatoes. There are actually green tomatoes on the vines so with some warm weather we may have tomatoes within the month.

Well, actually it just looks like one exploded all over the yard.
Straw bales are one of my favorite mulches as they are inexpensive and one of the best for hilling up potatoes. Today, however, the straw was spread over newly seeded beds of greens, butternut squash, tomatillos, and garlic. The tomatoes also received fresh mulch and the asparagus received worm castings.
In another part of the yard I added the other two sisters to the already planted squash: corn and pole beans.
I also weeded the side yard and tossed a bunch of greens to the chickens which were happy to receive them.

The front yard at our house has the best sun year round and all that is growing there is grass! Unless we had a cow it is not very edible. OK, the chickens will eat what is in the grass catcher after mowing but really how much grass can they eat?
So, the first patch of grass has been claimed in the goal of growing more edibles. Now the rest of the yard…

Today I planted out lots of onions. How many? Don’t know. I started some onion seeds a long time ago. Last Saturday I also bought a six pack of onions. Today I decided that they all needed to go into the ground.

If you have ever planted onion seeds you know that they grow in a big clump. When they are about the thickness of a pencil you plant them in the ground. But, before they can go in the ground you must tease them. When the seeds are growing in a pot or a six pack they are growing very close together. To plant them in the ground with the proper spacing you must tease the roots apart and then plant each small plant in the ground.

I planted the seedlings around the herb bed. I surrounded the potatoes. I planted them around an empty bed.

Hopefully we will have lots of onions!