Yeah, we tried regular TP for a bit. It clogged the black tank drain and DH said never again! Lol
What did you do in the garden today?
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Phaedra Geiermann
Crowing
Foraging for the chickens 
Hens: Oooohhhh Our Daily Salad!!!
Hens: Oooohhhh Our Daily Salad!!!
SheaLoner
Crowing
I think there are "rules and regulations" for when manure can be used on a food crop. And most of the big farms don't have the equipment to do so anymore. Its all chemical and concentrate specific million dollar machinery.
vall
DIY
Big post. Last photos from Cali.
Tomatoes in April! This one survived the winter in a warm spot.
First time this mango has flowered.
Feijoa just starting to bloom
Steps I made. The yard has lots of steps.
Mandarin (front) and lemon
Papaya with anthracnose. It produced 12 papayas last year but didn't set any flowers, maybe it will fruit every other year.
Blueberries are ripe. Birds have pecked a few
Avocado, almost ripe.
Avocado new growth
Couple cherimoya trees hiding in the iceplant
A soft seeded pomegranate
Loquat. First year it's fruited. Some of the fruit is sunburned but the shaded ones are tasty.
Persimmon, it has flower buds this year.
Cherries! First year for this tree too
Passion flower. This hasn't set fruit yet but it should eventually
Dragon fruit. This one is probably overripe. The one I picked a few weeks ago tasted like lychee. I do have a lychee tree but it hasn't flowered yet.
Early blackberry, almost ripe
Apricot, first year it's fruited
More dragon fruit and nasturtium field
Macadamia
Apple and pride of Madeira
More steps I made. These were heavy!
Had to pick this one. Will make slaw, glad I didn't toss out the mayo yet.
Pineapples, kumquat, veggie beds
Veggies in front and a grape/passion fruit arbor in back. The quail pens were here.
This is an all metal homemade raised bed, no wood. With shade cloth in the summer I can grow lettuce even when it's warm.
This is the main veggie garden with 13 3x3 plots. I did a variant of square foot gardening (mostly for crop rotation purposes) since so much of the garden is in raised beds or terraces.
Tomatoes in April! This one survived the winter in a warm spot.
First time this mango has flowered.
Feijoa just starting to bloom
Steps I made. The yard has lots of steps.
Mandarin (front) and lemon
Papaya with anthracnose. It produced 12 papayas last year but didn't set any flowers, maybe it will fruit every other year.
Blueberries are ripe. Birds have pecked a few
Avocado, almost ripe.
Avocado new growth
Couple cherimoya trees hiding in the iceplant
A soft seeded pomegranate
Loquat. First year it's fruited. Some of the fruit is sunburned but the shaded ones are tasty.
Persimmon, it has flower buds this year.
Cherries! First year for this tree too
Passion flower. This hasn't set fruit yet but it should eventually
Dragon fruit. This one is probably overripe. The one I picked a few weeks ago tasted like lychee. I do have a lychee tree but it hasn't flowered yet.
Early blackberry, almost ripe
Apricot, first year it's fruited
More dragon fruit and nasturtium field
Macadamia
Apple and pride of Madeira
More steps I made. These were heavy!
Had to pick this one. Will make slaw, glad I didn't toss out the mayo yet.
Pineapples, kumquat, veggie beds
Veggies in front and a grape/passion fruit arbor in back. The quail pens were here.
This is an all metal homemade raised bed, no wood. With shade cloth in the summer I can grow lettuce even when it's warm.
This is the main veggie garden with 13 3x3 plots. I did a variant of square foot gardening (mostly for crop rotation purposes) since so much of the garden is in raised beds or terraces.
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While the vegetables starts didn’t start, I did search out my rhubarb. I put a branch wall around it so it’s not in danger of being mowed down. 
TJAnonymous
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I *really* try hard not to shop at Walmart, but there are certain items (Laundry soap, toilet paper, cereal, etc...) that I will only buy there. They were getting more and more empty shelves so they changed their tactics:
1) they re-arranged the entire store. Nothing is where it is has traditionally been which makes shopping there even more stressful because you have to go down every aisle to find stuff. They have combined some aisles and made wider aisleways to hide their changes.
2) If they happen to be out of something, say....pasta....they will throw whatever product they have excess of in that spot. For example, just recently they had cases of bottled water placed randomly in whatever shelf space was open such as with the cereal or with the dog food.
There is still an aisle where most of the water is located...they just have excess product stashed around the store to keep shelves from being bare. We buy most of our groceries from Harps foods which is a small, employee-owned chain. Their prices are always higher but their meat and produce is always fresh and locally sourced. Their milk and dairy products are ALWAYS cheaper than Walmart but all the packaged goods are inevitably higher. Still, I'd rather support them than Walmart where possible.
Last year my goal was to spend no more than $100/week (average) at the grocery store. That's everything I buy at that store: food, socks, headlights, whatever. I came in about $600 UNDER my budget for the year.
Right now, I am OVER by about $50 so far this year.
There is still some room to cut stuff, if we have to. I hope to lower the average with stuff from the garden. But we can't grow milk, cheese, beer, bacon, meat, flour...
I planted 24 more hills of potatoes today. 42 planted so far, and I'm waiting for another kind that I ordered to come in.
TJAnonymous
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Yes, I understand the concerns about e.coli. I'm not talking about taking it direct from the pasture to the field. I'm just wondering why there isn't a domestic business that would collect the manure, process it for fertilizer, and make fertilizer domestically? Why are we having to import fertilizer?
Yeah, they kinda look like jerks and bullies, but they are handsome. The cardinals are the real treat. I wish we had them and fireflies here.You can have the grackles! I’ll pack their little bags and send them your way, Mochi is welcome to them all! They are rotten
I was enjoying watching our week and a half old chicks trying to dust-bath in the shavings in the brooder. I'll have to fix a sandy place outside for them to start getting used to the outdoors soon.
We put our grow-outs in the outside tractor at around 5 weeks (or when their mom looks like her head will explode if they stay with her any longer) and those little fluffballs start jumping and skipping around in the grass immediately.
At this point, if we didn't already have rabbits and chickens we'd be getting them.
THIS! We currently have too many chicks and hatching eggs but I'm not too worried as any extras are going in the freezer. I still have vague plans to use a low raised bed that's just weeds, into a cornish cross pen.
I too was pleasantly surprised with my last feed run, the prices are crazy high but no higher than they were a couple of weeks ago so yay?
That is one of my favorite kinds of day, when DP and I spend the day fishing. Good luck to you!
So on our walk this morning, we found a dead easter egger by the side of the road. I know that the lady who lives on the property lets her birds wander around again (she kept them penned when she had mink problems) and since we live in a small town she's risking their deaths by 50 different causes (including cars, dogs, hawks, . But I felt bad and picked it up, put it in one of the bags I carry for dog doots, and placed it on top of her trash can. When I got home I sent her a facebook message and she told me that she knew and was sure it was her neighbor's fault. That she had found it dead in in her greenhouse and she moved it to the roadside to shame her neighbor. For her dead hen...that she lets free range in a town...that she found dead on her own property.
TJAnonymous
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Incredible property....please tell me you aren't moving?
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