In honor of Earth Day, here are some beautiful places in Colorado that I’ve had the opportunity to explore with my adventure-seeking pup! 🌎🐶 Can you guess where we’ve been? Comment below! 🙋♀️ Follow us @pikes.peak.plants for more adventures!
Our ladies totally aren’t spoiled 🤪😝 A fellow community member was making these custom chicknic tables. As a ducky mom, I just had to snag one for my tables! For more ducky videos and daily updates, follow us @pikes.peak.plants Follow 👉 @pikes.peak.plants Follow 👉 @pikes.peak.plants Follow 👉 @pikes.peak.plants
Day in the life of a working city girl
Millie is our Colorado Mountain Dog being trained to guard our flock of Ancona ducks. As a livestock guardian dog, she loves to work and will assign tasks for herself to do. At almost a year old, she may look giant but is still very much a puppy at heart.
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Go away! I’m working, can’t you see???
Go away! I’m hard at work, can’t you see?
Millie is our Colorado Mountain Dog. She grew up in a rural setting and has adjusted very well to living in suburbia. She comes from working parents and although she’s one of the more mellow puppies from her litter, she still has a drive to work. However, her definition of working and choice of where to work from can be questionable at times…
Even our ducky pest control crew needs a break sometimes! Their idea of fun? Chasing after and pushing around a treat dispensing ball filled with peas 💚
Garden Flop: I severely underestimated just how much Bertha loves squash flowers. 😬
My original plan was to grow a squash patch for the ducks. I figured a half dozen summer squash and a dozen winter squash plants should produce enough squash to last them through the summer and part of the winter. This is in addition to their personal cherry tomato plants and lettuce/peas/bok choy patch.
Unfortunately Bertha just loves the taste of squash flowers so much that she would walk through the patch every morning and gobble up each and every flower. 🙄
Haven't finalized what my plans for their ducky veggie patch is yet but I won't be counting on their squash plants producing any veggies!
Day 9 of @gardenatthemill challenge
Nursery tour - last week of Feb
Starting Perennials From Seed In 30 Seconds
Herbs are a great additional to your kitchen garden. They add another level of complexity to your home cooking!
Herbs can be divided into annuals and perennials. Annuals are all herbaceous and have soft flexible stems. Perennials can be tender, like lemon balm, or woody, like oregano. Perennial herbs take a while to become established so starting them indoors is a great choice when you have a short growing season!
Follow our quick 30 sec to starting your own perennial herbs indoors!