A busy day at the urban homestead

~ I freed up another vegetable patch and sowed some carrot and onion seeds (noticed 4 potato plants that have self seeded from last year's remains - have left them there). Weeded other patches and popped carrot seeds into empty spaces.

~ Simon dug up a long potato patch for me. This was on a grassed/weedy area that hadn't been converted to garden last year - so was hard compacted soil that needed a bit of work.

~ I went off to a Transition Towns subgroup meeting of keen gardeners (and wanna-be's) which will focus on sharing skills and workload between us on our own properties. Today was mostly about getting to know each other, what our skills on offer are and what we'd like help with. It was an interesting few hours and I got to chat to a few new people which made it doubly worth while.

~ Simon then went off to pick up the new bantams (as yet unnamed). Yikes! We introduced them after the other two had gone to bed, but obviously not dark enough, so there was a bit of postering and pecking and intimidation going on. Eventually it got dark enough and the two new babies put themselves to bed (or were let into it...) in their new nest underneath the older two and the older two put themselves into bed. Will be interesting to see how things are tomorrow.

~ After Simon went to pick up the chicks I went down and sowed the potato seeds into their new ditches.