Blueberry Wine

I'm thrilled to report 100% germination rate😎 So these girls were dropped into soil on April 22nd. They started pushing up on 4/24 then fully popped up on 4/25. The first couple days they were under the humidity dome on the heat mat in the dark, but once they popped up on the 25th, we had a nice morning so I put them in front of a South facing window. They enjoyed the morning sun, and then I rigged up the grow lights for the afternoon. At that point they were too tall for the humidity dome, so that went away. When they're not in the sun, they're under 3 Litever 24v grow light strips. So they were under the lights for a couple days and then on 4/28 it was gorgeous out, 60F and sunny so I put them out in the south flower bed in front of my house. That same day, I was out in the garden weeding beds with my girl, Phyllis Diller. Phyl was one of the first chickens I got about 7 years ago, and she looked old then. But Phyl quickly became one of the biggest personalities in my flock, and she knows how to throw some shade with her heavy lidded eyes. About 2 years ago in the summer she was attacked by a bald eagle right in front of me. She had 3 deep lacerations, 2 by each of her wings and one across her saddle. She gradually recovered, but her balance slowly degraded, and a couple times I found her on her back unable to get up. One time I found her like that in the freezing rain, unresponsive, and I brought her back to the land of the living with my hair dryer. Eventually she degraded to the point where she couldn't walk, but I couldn't put her down. She's still alert and has an appetite, so Phyl came to live in the house this winter. So I like to get this immobile chicken out and about as much as I can. And she's happy keeping me company out in the garden, under the shade of the lovage. So after I weeded the sorrel bed and mulched it with straw, I had a good tub full of invasive grass, dandelion, burdock and thistle. I read a book on biodynamic gardening this winter and I plan on bringing more biodynamic practices into my gardening, one of which is Weed Tea. Actual weeds, not our "weed"😜 I brought them back to the house, stuffed them in an empty mesh bag that originally had 10lbs of mussels in it from a local aquaculture operation, and submerged them in a 5 gallon bucket of water and put a lid on it. In the next 2-4 weeks the plant matter will begin to break down and the nutrients they took from the soil will go back into the water and then back on the plants I want them to nourish. What's left in the bag will go into the compost. I didn't feed any nutes this first week but they'll get a charge of Nitrogen next week💩