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Posted on 10/02/2009 3:59:53 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning to all of you gardeners. I started the clean up of my garden this past week. I am taking my time doing it. I started with my tomato plants and decided not to use them in my compost pile. I do plan on pulling up my landscape fabric and saving it for next season. I would like to plant winter rye grass in the garden but would like other advice from y’all. What would be a good cover for this area until spring?
Here's a tater hint for you all: My wife strains and saves the water from makin "mashed taters" and uses it when she makes bread. It adds flavor and the bread seems to stay soft longer.
Adorable!!
A table and chairs. Your greenhouse sounds heavenly. Yes, that’s the sound of envy you hear... :)
Thank you! Will do it immediately.
We had Youkon Gold oven fries with our pork ribs and Delicata Squash last night. Grand son had dinner with us which was unusual then I remembered I had promised him my Remington Semi Auto 30.06. He does comes over once a week for lunch. I have a question about potatoes in a 20 gallon pot. Wife found some old spuds that had sprouted in a cupboard and I planted 2 each in 5 tubs of spent potting soil and only 2 have come up. Is it possible to plant too deep?
btw, I have a roll of red plastic I would give you if you lived over the fence. Too cool here for tomatoes and peppers...
You rang? I love my chickens! I have 45 right now, and a few useless roosters.
I’ll be starting another batch of 50 from chicks this coming spring (April). I have a brooder pen in the 3rd floor attic, and they live there from early April until the end of May when it’s warm enough to move them to their own part of the coop.
I sell all of the eggs to one guy...I don’t know what he does with them all, other than to re-sell them, I guess. Al I know is that the eggs are gone each week and there is money in the fridge on the porch, LOL!
My favorite breed is the Buff Orpington. A very pretty, big and fluffy gentle hen who lays about 270 brown eggs a year. I will be raising 25 Buffs and 25 mixed for customers this season.
Some sites for you to visit:
http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com
http://www.backyardchickens.com
I would say that raising chicks is the ‘hardest’ part of the whole operation, but if you keep them warm, dry, fed & watered, they grow amazingly fast. I swear sometimes I can see their feathers grow, LOL!
Otherwise, I spend about 30 minutes a day total on ‘The Girls’ freshening water, filling their food bin, cleaning up after them, fighting rats in the coop (I always win!) and gathering eggs. :)
We don’t have a basement, but we do have a crawl space that stays cool nearly all year. The last time we were the recipients of several bushels I put them down there. But, and this is probably where I messed up, we left them in the baskets. They lasted a while, but not as long as I would have liked. I’ll try using straw next time.
Except for diana’s beer bread, and an occasional loaf of rye, I’m not a big bread baker. I usually use my potato, and other veggie, water to water plants!!! I’ve been known to toss the pt of water right out the kitchen window. Too lazy to carry it outside!!!! Why walk 50feet when I can get away with 10 :)
I also use a recipe my Mother left me to make potato doughnuts. They are sooooooooo good!
No need to be envious, please. It’s just a small roll up camping type table and a folding chair.
I’m hoping to attack it next week. The tar paper floor did NOT take care of all the wire grass, and after the roof acquired a hole in it and we’ve had tons of rain, well...............it’s like a danged jungle in there. And not a single thing is growing in pots or flats. Everything is coming up through the “floor.”
I’m going to pull up the tarpaper and use one of Jerry Baker’s “don’t use this if you want anything to grow in the space” weed killer solutions before we put the ply floor down.
It’s 3 windows long, 2 windows wide, and 2 windows high. They were the casement windows hubby saved from when he did a window replacement job for our Pastor.
Thank you ma’am.
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I think you will find that there are a lot of FReepers on this thread that have chickens! Oh and it is quite OK to post about them here!
A local nursery uses landscape fabric for a floor in their greenhouses. I will have to dig out my Jerry Baker book and scroll through it again...
I have heard about Vetch what is it?
What do you feed chickens? Is there a normal season for starting chicks? Also, how warm do you need to keep them in winter?
Vetch is a legume and it’s roots “fixes” nitrogen from the air which will increase the nitrogen in your soil as the roots break down. Same with field peas and clover...
Can I use it to cover my whole garden area?
Looks like the chickens are coming home to roost in ChiTown! Heeeee Heeeeeee!
Yukon Gold are our favorites .... taste is everything.
I wanted to get a greeenhouse up this fall, argh ... other things like time and cash seem to have priorities.
Tires work great ... the aesthetic aspect is an issue in our neighborhood.
don’t get me going .. this neighborhood has people that will spend 500 dollars on something manufactured “cause the product is “green”” unfotuantely it took more energy, more raw materials, more suspect resources .. but it is labeled “green” and WE WILL SAVE the planet doncha know.
God forbid one uses a board from a used pallet. Even my buckets, were close to being on the edge .... it must be shiny and have a “Brookstone” or some equally ridiculous label on it ...
OK .. Back off my soapbox .... ranting over ...I feel much better. Gotta go find my meds.
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