Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: greeneyes

Sun & mid 60s here, too. TEMPTATION! TEMPTATION! TEMPTATION!

Put 6 rabbits in the freezer today.

Yesterday, finished the tilling for the sunflowers; pea-tilling got done a few days prior. Still don’t dare plant, though.

This year I have to dig out the Everlasting Onions*, (Allium cepa perutile), reinvigorate the beds, then separate & replant them...with a major batch headed for kitchen duty. ;-’)

Started making paper pots yesterday. Today is Day 14 for the incubating eggs. They’re all brown eggs , which can take 2 or 3 extra days to hatch, so no peep-report until friday after next.

*A non-flowering Evergreen Perennial onion that produces profuse clumps of bulblets which are pulled off the sides as needed for cooking, Very Hardy & stands well through the winter & for many years after. (Rare) Rare enough that it’s even hard to find info on them on the Net.


21 posted on 03/29/2013 4:44:26 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: ApplegateRanch

I haven’t had rabbit or squirrel since I was a kid. Squirrels abound in our neighborhood, because we have lots of hickory nuts (hubby says they are not the edible type).

I think that if push came to shove we could probably raise some rabbits to eat with out violating any of our sub-division restrictions.


23 posted on 03/29/2013 5:11:37 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies ]

To: ApplegateRanch

“Evergreen Perennial onion”

Did you start them by using seed or plants? And they keep growing year after year? Now, that’s my kind of plant.


33 posted on 03/29/2013 7:12:19 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies ]

To: ApplegateRanch

Those onions sound interesting. How hardy are they?


103 posted on 03/30/2013 10:42:28 AM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson