Spring is clearly underway in the garden. The hostas are sending up leaves and the bleeding hearts are blooming. The oregano, thyme, and chives in the herb garden are also showing greenery. The ferns all have fiddleheads and the asparagus have started sending up shoots. Here are some pictures of fern fiddleheads and bleeding hearts. If the fiddleheads look familiar that is because are displaying a common natural order known as the Fibonacci Sequence. This is natural pattern also seen in place like the nautilus and snail shells. The sequence looks like 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34 etc. A good tutorial page can be found here: https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fibonacci-sequence.html
Even if you are not into math your brain will probably still recognize this pattern and say “hey that’s pretty”.
Here is the whole fern plant. That large black ball is bowling ball that was in this house when we bought it. It is now a "Garden Orb" because that sounds fancier than "Abandoned Bowling Ball."
The kale, chard, onions, and garlic are looking great. The hoop house is still up since we still have cold weather some nights.
I have already harvested some kale. Instead of measuring by weight (kale doesn’t weigh much) I decided to record this as 4 cups of chopped kale. Instead of harvesting the whole plant I only took the largest older leaves of a few plants. This allows the plants to survive and grow more tasty leaves I can eat later. I can continue this pattern until it is too warm to grow kale.
Most of the seeds I started in the last post are germinating. Many have been transplanted to larger pots. Most of these were acquired through purchasing larger seedlings and saving the plastic pots. I have added the zucchini and pea seedlings to the hoop house and they are doing well so far.
The chickens have increased egg laying to nearly full capacity. In March they laid 145. That is an average of 4.677 eggs per day. So far in April they have laid mostly 5 or 6 a day. Only one day saw only 4 eggs laid. I have added more oyster shell to their feed to provide more calcium for their egg shells.
Reference:
Pierce, Rod. "Fibonacci Sequence" Math Is Fun. Ed. Rod Pierce. 23 Nov 2014. 15 Apr 2015 <http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fibonacci-sequence.html>
I have already harvested some kale. Instead of measuring by weight (kale doesn’t weigh much) I decided to record this as 4 cups of chopped kale. Instead of harvesting the whole plant I only took the largest older leaves of a few plants. This allows the plants to survive and grow more tasty leaves I can eat later. I can continue this pattern until it is too warm to grow kale.
Most of the seeds I started in the last post are germinating. Many have been transplanted to larger pots. Most of these were acquired through purchasing larger seedlings and saving the plastic pots. I have added the zucchini and pea seedlings to the hoop house and they are doing well so far.
The chickens have increased egg laying to nearly full capacity. In March they laid 145. That is an average of 4.677 eggs per day. So far in April they have laid mostly 5 or 6 a day. Only one day saw only 4 eggs laid. I have added more oyster shell to their feed to provide more calcium for their egg shells.
Reference:
Pierce, Rod. "Fibonacci Sequence" Math Is Fun. Ed. Rod Pierce. 23 Nov 2014. 15 Apr 2015 <http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fibonacci-sequence.html>
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