In this informal, multi‑person conversation the participants riff on what it means to be a “crazy plant lady” and a “crazy chicken lady” while working through a day of homestead chores. They start by humorously counting indoor plants, noting that a surplus of foliage signals an obsessive love of gardening. The dialogue then shifts to practical seedling care: leggy seedlings need fans, adequate water, and early‑season greenhouse or low‑tunnel protection with double covering and heat. Rebecca mentions potting up seedlings and using a fan to strengthen them. The group discusses moving their flock—chickens and a goose named Rosie—out of the compost corner once the weather warms, and the logistics of coop placement. They plan a low‑tunnel extension using Agribond and bug‑net ribbing, measuring a 9‑foot structure, and consider basement storage for wet conditions. Throughout, tasks are delegated (e.g., Josiah holding a cart, Becky moving compost), and the conversation is peppered with jokes, supportive banter, and a shared enthusiasm for homesteading projects.
Chapters
You might be a crazy chicken lady if you have more than 5 indoor plants. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Didn't you count all the plants out there?
I'm gonna get to that in a second. What am I at? 4? Oh, there's more. 5, 6, 7, 8. Don't judge her by that one indoor plant. I'm a squee.
No speakies Spanish?
No habla español? 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. You might be a crazy plant lady, honey.
No, come over here. You didn't count the dead ones in my bedroom, did you?
Yeah, he did.
I told them not to judge you by that.
I let them die.
It looks like it has one leaf left. There's two more over there. I forget to count. And I got this one. You might be a crazy chicken lady if you have an entire table of plant starts in your dining room. Uh-huh. You might be a crazy plant lady if your husband asks you why so many plants so early And she says, why not? Why? That's a symptom, honey.
You're funny. It's a symptom.
Denial is the first sign of a condition.
I, I don't deny it at all.
She's 6 or 7. 6 or 7. All right, she's 6 or 7.
Nobody died.
Oh good.
This is your first response.
Now I have gotten some more, uh, cream leg bars.
She's moving a flock out to the outdoor I think we're past the butt cold weather, so we're gonna put the chickens out in the compost corner again. She's been begging me to get this started again. Why do you want to get them out here again so bad? It's another chore for you.
I like chores. All right, I like doing the chickens. Can I get Rosie in here?
Yes. Oh, where are you going with these?
To the greenhouse.
You want to put them in Henry's cart? He does have some sort of contraption. What's the deal with the leggy plants, Rebecca?
I talked to Casey about that. He said, um, I needed to get a fan on them, so that's one of my things I'm going to do.
That strengthens up a leggy plant.
Correct.
To her credit, these came leggy. What's the wilting about?
They need water. It's hard to water plants in your dining room.
Yeah, they could be dry and maxing them out, maxing out the soil. You might be a crazy plant lady. If you plant your plants so early, you have to put them in a greenhouse to put them under a double covering and run a heater. It is warmer in here though. Let's get these out today, Beck. Let's have that goal. Yeah, and she's gonna have me do another low tunnel here. Yeah, so let's get on it. What's your solution for these guys besides wind?
Potting them up.
Okay. How you gonna get wind in there?
I'm gonna do it somewhere.
You might be a crazy chicken lady if you put a fan on your plants. I keep saying chicken lady. You might be a crazy plant lady.
Those are cucumbers.
If you put a fan on them, you're gonna enjoy the cucumbers.
I could live without.
I do appreciate it though. You gonna take along?
Hopefully.
You might be a crazy plant lady if you've ever started your outdoor gardens 2 months before the last possible frost date. Nice. Who you got there, Bird?
The prettiest one.
She is pretty. Nice. What are you doing, taking them one at a time?
Yeah.
Can you get the one that's out too? The troublemakers need to come in here. This is the bulletproof confinement. Look. They're in there already. Hey, you got to put nest box in there though, I see, with some hay. Admittedly, Rebecca's the crazy plant lady, I'm the crazy chicken lady. If you are the crazy chicken lady and the crazy plant lady, it's possible that just makes you the crazy homestead lady.
You come catch Rosie for me.
Josiah, do you know which one Rosie is?
Nope.
Rosie's a nice Goose.
Oh look, she's right on top of that grass. There is something right about this. See how busy and occupied she is? In her soul, she's her happiest right now. It's raining. We're gonna— we were gonna manure spread that compost today, but it's a better rain job, isn't it, Rebecca?
I know you said, oh, I can't do what I was gonna do, and I was like, oh, well, we can do this.
Are you moving stuff out of the way now? I can help. Yeah, move out of the way and then we'll put it back because I don't want to crush it. Let's put it right there. Teddy, you should come in here. Let's all pretend that he did what I said and that wasn't coincidence. It's all dry and cozy in here, fresh smelling with all these plants, soil. Well, we started to put it along this wall and then realized Oops, wait, we wouldn't be able to put our fabric all the way over, so we put it down through these cracks and hammered it in from the downside. This is bug net ribbing. What would you call this? Full metal stuff comes from— for bug net, doesn't it?
Yeah, I think you can use it for Agribond. You can get it. We got it at Johnny's.
And now we're ready. We've put up 4— well, we need to measure and get you an Agribond. 9 feet.
You might have to do it in the basement because it's wet out.
Good idea. Hopefully we have room in y'all's— yeah, cluttered basement. Move your cart out of the way. How's that going, by the way? Yeah, you've got the bolts, you just got to attach the axle part and then we'll go to the next step. Hold me right here, Gideon.
Sure, I'll hold you right here.
There's the agar bomb, Becca, for your preciouses. Yes, you even said that kind of creepy. Yes, she even said that kind of like Gollum, didn't she? We got them planted, Mom. Okay, do you want another? We have more cabbages. We'd have to do another bed.
No, no, I don't want another bed. I would do a, um, like a row in the garden, the crop garden, but not in my All right, I got soaked for you, babe.
You actually might be a crazy plant lady if you get soaked in the rain planting plants.
