It’s the latter end of March and I have been looking at the small Iris’ and bulbs starting to show all over the yard. The deer have been staying out mostly, we’re thankful for that. Last year the deer really ate up all the small tulip starts, which is to be expected. This year, my wife strung up a higher fence around the front yard to keep them at bay, and it’s worked!

We are also doing an experiment this year in the garden. The chickens were in half of it all winter long. They managed to get every bit of grass and weed that showed up, as well as fertilized in their wake. The other half of the garden, we have been pulling all the grass out by hand. Our experiment is to see if the chickens do a better job at weeding than we do. We’ll see in about 2 months when things begin to really grow.

A good friend of ours likes how chicken’s scratch around, so I took a small clip of Snowball, the chicken, scratching in the garden.