Quail Eggs and Garden Update
May 24, 2010 by Katelyn
Filed under Frugal Mom
Oh, dear. I meant to transfer my journal notes to my blog, but I kept forgetting. I’m not going to go back a month to bore you with updates that seemed tremendously exciting at the time, but I will give you a quick recap. In the ground right now, I have:
- Radishes
- Peas
- Bush beans
- Mixed lettuces
- Big Boy tomatoes
- Black cherry tomato
- Volunteer mystery tomato seedlings (I should yank them up by their little roots, but I didn’t have any tomato diseases last year and they’re nowhere near this year’s on purpose bunch.)
- Zucchini
- Yellow squash
- Red cabbage (I so want to try making my own sauerkraut this year!)
- Butternut squash
- Parsnips
- Beets
- White potatoes
- Sweet potatoes
The sweet peppers I started indoors didn’t do well, so I may just pick up a few seedlings. I have giant pumpkin, tigger melons and spaghetti squash seeds soaking in wet paper towels to go in tomorrow. (They seem to sprout better for me if I do that first.) And I have a whole mess of stuff waiting for a late summer planting for my year round growing experiment. (Yes, I’ve been reading The Four Season Harvest book…)
My dream list, in case anyone wants to know what I want for my birthday this year:
- Hardy fig tree
- Rain barrel
- Hoop house
A dozen of the eggs we just got. They will need to sit a few hours before starting incubation so they settle.
Now, on to today’s adventure! I got 59 quail eggs in the mail today. The kids want to hatch some chicks and I thought quail would be nice to try, as they are nice and small compared to turkeys and geese. I see that quite a few people keep them in cages out in snow covered only with a tarp, but we’re thinking about building an aviary beside the porch if they hatch so that they are well protected. We have to incubate for 17 days at 99.5-100 degrees and should turn the eggs at least twice, preferably three times, a day so it will be quite some time before we know if our adventure is successful.
How is your garden growing this year? Are you doing anything new for your sustainable living plan?
