No mater when you start them you can't get them in the ground until it is ready. If They get too big even in the GH they will outgrow their space if not enough. Its a balancing act for sure. I still end up buying plants every year due to loss.  Always seems that the stuff I start from seeds in the ground is the heartiest. I put in my strawberries today as I totally gutted the patch and started over. 60 plants 

Most seeds in tonight, plants later on in the wek

Nice going Clint. I'm pretty much outside sunrise till sunset now. Put some of my pickle cukes, zucchini and regular cuke plants in tonight. Currently, 12 pickle , 6 regular and 12 zucchini in the ground. Still have 24 pepper plants to go in and bunch more herbs. My leftover plants are 16 tomato and 12 squash I need to find a home for.
Garlic is cranking. I planted them last fall.

Picked up 250 more lbs pig feed. 200lbs mash and 50 lbs cracked corn. $40.00 out the door. It should last 4-5 weeks.
Also working the firewood pile tonight . Split another cord . My pile is not gonna cut it this winter. About 3.5 cord. Mostly white oak .50% standing dead, not rotten.
Can probably scab another cord in the woods but they are getting thick.

Can't wait to see some of the fruits of our labors

Questions.

I built a trough about a month ago. Now they are climbing in it. Should I raise it up or not worry about them eating mud.
Also, you'll see the blue rain barrel. It has a spicket on it. Is this suffice or should I keep doing a water bowl , which they tip over anyway.
Ps, they are getting big fast .

Rich I'll stand corrected but Pigs do not sweat and with very little hair they need to keep cool by "wallowing" in the mud. Also helps with the bugs. My neighbor would play a garden hose in a area of his 'piggery' making a wetspot and it wasn't long before the pigs rooted out thier own mud hole which of course needs to be kept wet. Problem is, they keep it wet too and it can become a bit odiferous. Didn't stop the pigs from dumping the troughs either, little darlings root under everything. I see you reinforced along the bottom of your fence, good idea. May even consider a small fencer and run wire around the bottom inside. Don't need high tensil wire and do not buy a "high impedence" or a unit made for "miles" of fence thinking the bigger the better.

Congrats on the size of your hogs, I smell the bacon cooking already.

Mine will take a dump in the trough and then eat the food. That's why they taste sooooooo good. Do either with the water, but they need a wet spot r to  roll in

Thanks for the replies.
They seem to do their crapping in 1 area away from the food and shelter. I've been able to use straw and rake then compost the waste twice but the wet weather is taking a toll on the 30X30 foot square.
I'm pretty sure I'm going to put legs on the trough to keep them from climbing in.
Probably over thinking things .

I personally would not. They will continue to climb and then use it to try to escape over the top.  BTDT

somebody call???  

Clint S
I personally would not. They will continue to climb and then use it to try to escape over the top.  BTDT

Shoulda listened to experience. Wasted my time putting legs and driving into the ground only to have them break the trough.
Gotta build a new one tomorrow.
Guess now I BTDT