This is our broody hen, here she is in our hen house sitting on four eggs. She has been incubating them for a week now, another two to go before we should see any sign of baby chicks.
This is one of our new Columbine hens, they look quite different to the ones we have had before. The blue/green eggs they lay are proving rather popular.
We decided it was time to pick the outdoor tomatoes, there are loads on the plants, but we have had some quite cold nights recently so the plants are starting to die off.
We picked some sweetcorn which was ready too.
One of the students wanted to see if the hens would eat the tops of the sweetcorn as they looked like ears of corn. The hens liked pecking at the seeds so we collected at the sweetcorn tops to keep for feeding the hens.
More cucumbers in the poly-tunnel.
I'm really not sure what one of the students was thinking here - a few people did comment that if we planted the eggs we might grow eggplant?
Removing the green tomatoes from the plants. We will compost all the plant stems and leaves.
This is only part of the tomato harvest - we will try and ripen the tomatoes by putting them in the dark in a warm place. We will also try and make some preserves with some of the green tomatoes too.
A few more of the things we harvested from the garden today - lots of chilies, different tomatoes and some peppers.
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