TheBrumstead
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Hi!
I'm Jennifer, aka "TheBrumstead". I found this site a while ago from BYC. We got our first chickens in August. I'm 31, married stay-at-home-mom to an almost 3 yr old boy. I'm also a Lindt Chocolate RSVP consultant, which means I do chocolate parties for people
We have 7 acres in northwestern IN. We had horses until last spring when they both had to be put down due to complications of old age. I'm not ready to get more, so now it's the chickens and a good sized garden this year. I haven't had a good place to put the garden in the past because of the horse pasture. I put in a Red Haven peach tree and Bing cherry tree in the fall. I didn't know that the Bing needs a pollinator, so that will go in this spring. I'd like to do a few apple trees at some point too.
Gardening goals for this year:
Cover crop/forage for the chickens
blueberry bushes
blackberry bushes
cranberry bushes
tomatoes
onions
potatoes
bell peppers
hot peppers
3 sisters - sweet corn, zucchini, pole beans
assorted herbs
wildflowers, carnations, violas, whatever else catches my eye.
I have about an acre to play with, but it was the "dry lot" for my horses, so it's been grazed down to bare ground and compacted by hooves over the last 5 years. I want to try the "soil bag gardening" method for some of my plants - where you punch holes in the bottom of a bag of topsoil, cut open the top and plant directly in the bag.
Ok, now that I've written a novel... I'll end here
I'm Jennifer, aka "TheBrumstead". I found this site a while ago from BYC. We got our first chickens in August. I'm 31, married stay-at-home-mom to an almost 3 yr old boy. I'm also a Lindt Chocolate RSVP consultant, which means I do chocolate parties for people
We have 7 acres in northwestern IN. We had horses until last spring when they both had to be put down due to complications of old age. I'm not ready to get more, so now it's the chickens and a good sized garden this year. I haven't had a good place to put the garden in the past because of the horse pasture. I put in a Red Haven peach tree and Bing cherry tree in the fall. I didn't know that the Bing needs a pollinator, so that will go in this spring. I'd like to do a few apple trees at some point too. Gardening goals for this year:
Cover crop/forage for the chickens
blueberry bushes
blackberry bushes
cranberry bushes
tomatoes
onions
potatoes
bell peppers
hot peppers
3 sisters - sweet corn, zucchini, pole beans
assorted herbs
wildflowers, carnations, violas, whatever else catches my eye.
I have about an acre to play with, but it was the "dry lot" for my horses, so it's been grazed down to bare ground and compacted by hooves over the last 5 years. I want to try the "soil bag gardening" method for some of my plants - where you punch holes in the bottom of a bag of topsoil, cut open the top and plant directly in the bag.
Ok, now that I've written a novel... I'll end here
