Posts by SweetSilver

Quote: Originally Posted by robj  Quote: Originally Posted by SweetSilver    Unfortunately, this morning we also lost a favorite girl-- sweet, gentle Halloween who made...

The girls and I enjoyed the show yesterday.  I only wish we could have stayed longer.  We brought along their aunt who started taking pictures of all her favorite birds.  That's how it starts, I warned...

I second (or third) the wood chips with chicken manure.  How fast it breaks down depends on the ratio of wood and other leafy debris, like needles.  The best mulch, compost, anything, EVER has been what I call "Christmas tree...

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Cleaned out the coop today.  I had no idea there was so much hay in there!  We have a huge pile of pooey hay ready to be rained on and turn into lovely, lovely compost. Started opening up the coop so it can have more air...

Holy guacamole!   Have I been gone that long?   1000 posts?   Anyway......

I gave the edge of the beds to the girls--I always planted back a ways.  They always had enough places to do their work, and so the occasional rule I would make to protect plants, like no marching across the beds, was usually...

Quote: Originally Posted by off-grid hen  I was reading about a person whose fruit cocktail tree the plums took over. Somehow when they pruned the plum part it killed the whole tree? Sounds like user error but I will be...

Quote: Originally Posted by mikeyb  Quote: Originally Posted by SweetSilver  Thanks!  Free is good...... DAGGUM IT, YOU ALL MISSED OUR SOUTHERN MEET UP, it was...

Thanks!  Free is good......