Most of our windows are north facing, which is good for not heating up the house in the summer, but not so good for growing green onions in the winter. So to boost the light level, I purchased some LED grow lights strips and installed them under my cupboard in the kitchen.

I put a new batch of roots in the test tubes and they like the new light! The picture shows about a week of growth. Now the previous batch made it through three harvests before petering out, we’ll see if these keep going.

My eldest likes the green part of the green onions, but not the white part. She will eat them straight! So when it is her turn to cut up the onions the white bulb is left behind. On a lark, I took one of these lonely rooted ends and stuck it in a plastic baggie with a wet paper towel and hung it in the window. It grew. So I stuck a couple more in there too. We’ll see how sustainable this system is!

Update on eggs: two more eggs! And we had our first egg breakfast. And I remembered to take a picture of an egg in the nest box.

Update on Navi: Her crop was smaller but solid in the morning, so we are treating her for impacted crop. I have learned how to hold a chicken, prop open her beak, and squirt vegetable oil down her throat. Not easy, let me tell you. I have also been massaging her crop. I can nearly get my fingers to touch through the middle, so I am hoping I have been able to break up the mass. I let her roam for awhile then put her back in the isolation ward.