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    Comment by 'Birdsonghill' in article 'MULTIPLE USE PLANT FOR YOU,THE BEES AND YOUR CHICKENS'

    I have never grown tamarillo plants. I will have to add that to my list of plants from the nightshade family, I have grown. Some are favorites and some may be toxic, but all I have grown were interesting, tasty or beautiful with blooms. I would add some of the grain or forage plants to my list...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    I am behind this year and sour Kraut is another thing I have not done this year. I may yet do some and some kimchee with daikon radish that is sizing up now in the garden. I guess, I need to make two years worth now at a time because everything takes me twice as long and I am only getting half...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    I love using tried and true old time recipes, however, I love to experiment and try new recipes or create my own. I have had failures, but often have had a unique treat and try to pass them on , so others may enjoy the successes. I cook for my taste and if it pleases others , Great! I hate to...
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    Bush beans and pole beans question?

    Scarlet runner beans thrive here some years and others struggle with the heat and draught conditions of late summer. Spring/Early summer they thrive here with adequate soil moisture and set lots of beans and grow huge bloom covered vines by the end of June. Then, often they burn up and dwindle...
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    Bush beans and pole beans question?

    Grow crowder peas instead or some lima beans will continue to make beans in 90 F conditions if decent soil moisture for support of growth.is present. I never water my field peas, corn , heirloom pumpkins, sorghum, etc. Too much for me. Still they make crops(may be reduced) here even in very hot...
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    Comment by 'Birdsonghill' in article 'MULTIPLE USE PLANT FOR YOU,THE BEES AND YOUR CHICKENS'

    Thanks for the information! A common plant that does well around my chicken coops and runs is Hops vines. IT grows very fast in the spring to soon cover most of the sunny sides and top of the covered runs. The hops "flowers" smell light and pleasant, make great homebrew beer/ale if you so desire...
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    Review by 'Anonymous' in article 'Common Rooster Myths - Clearing Up Rooster Misinformation'

    I generally, agree with this well written article. Happy coops with more than one rooster is possible. I try and have 5 to10 hens per rooster. However, it is not uncommon to have a pair of roosters who will not tolerate each other and fight to the death or serious injury. Bachelor flocks of many...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    About tomato paste. The traditional way to make tomato paste is to use the over ripening fruits and only good ones, smeared out with the hand or a wooden spatula over a wooden board or table top out in the summer sun and monitor it and swish it around with a smearing action a time or two then...
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    Comment by 'Birdsonghill' in article 'Chicks 2024- Peavey Mart and McMurray Hatchery'

    I have loved the Welsummers! Some variation in the darkness of the brown egg color from bird to bird, but some are very dark rivaling the Marans. I also love the medium to somewhat, dark brown eggs with dark speckles most other hens often make. A few lay about the same lighter brown eggs as is...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    I personally like the more pronounced flavor of rutabaga often served with potatoes ,carrots and cabbage in my home. Boiling them instead of roasting tones them down a little bit. I prefer them roasted more often than not, but still use them in a boiled beef dinner. Often in boiling the dinner...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    I thought I might add, Rutabagas are harder to grow here from spring plantings, except very early plantings, if possible. when the weather is still "iffy" here. Plantings later in the spring suffer from the heat and pest attacks and seldom do well and quality of any harvested roots are often...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    IT does keep them looking better, but they keep acceptably well just placed in my veggie bin in the refrigerator a long time. I have had some keep several months, still eating them occasionally. They have kept ok in the ground here in the mid south, till late winter, before many rotted. I...
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    Question re: breaded foods, Onion rings, etc.

    I tried this today. I first salted them and let them sit to draw out the water, then drained and patted firmly with a paper towel. They were burpless Chinese heirloom Suyo Long variety. I lightly tossed them with flour and then in egg/water wash , then back into a seasoned flour blend. I fried...
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    Comment by 'Birdsonghill' in article 'Chicks 2024- Peavey Mart and McMurray Hatchery'

    PS. I still remember that first pet roosters name! Henry! I could tell you a good story about him that is one of a kind, but a long tale.
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    Comment by 'Birdsonghill' in article 'Chicks 2024- Peavey Mart and McMurray Hatchery'

    Good luck and best wishes for your chicken flock! One of the important things to remember about raising chickens is that everything likes to eat them! Lots of great information here to help avoid problems. If you lack experience, reading extensively about raising a small flock safely is vital to...
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