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    Mushroom foragers

    The big flush was a little later than recent years, but had a pretty good last few days of April/early May in Ohio. Finally got some good rains and perfect temps.
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    Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

    Yep, I've not run into a timber rattler on our place, but we're in the wheelhouse. Every now and then there is a road kill in the region. I found a beautiful big female sunning on a rock a couple counties south while mushroom hunting 5 years ago. They are a very handsome snake! Sour cherries...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    14 again today. Trying our best to eat them all. We had a mess of delicious caribou eyes made with homemade brioche bread this morning.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    You will eventually discover a number of ways to break an egg :D. My favorite (and that of others on this thread) is to forget I have them in a coat pocket, or to forget the egg basket and try to pick up too many at once.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    14/15 yesterday. If I discount the 4 yr old SLW who hasn't laid since last August, it's as good as we'll get.
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    Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

    Our neighbor did the "rent a goat" thing and that's where she got the idea. They tied them to trees, but we were thinking of using a section of our electric poultry mesh fence to contain them as you did. I about have her convinced to let me try a "cut and paint " approach with my brush cutter. I...
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    Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

    Anybody ever use goats to clear brush? We have a hillside full of multiflora rose that is virtually impenetrable, and my wife is threatening to rent some goats to eat it into submission. I've seen the results of that at one of the neighbor's...the goats ate everything including the bark off the...
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    Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

    I planted Little Bluestem native grass in our chicken yard for just that reason. It is deep-rooted and tough as nails and takes a beating from the chickens, drought, cold and is virtually disease and maintenance free. We used to live in Houston where St. Augustine was the standard yard grass. I...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    12 intact, 1 broken, probably by a misplaced step.
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    Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

    We got back to the garden today, planting more onions, potatoes, and chard. Since the long range forecast is warm to past the frost date here, we went ahead and planted peppers, tomatoes and beans under the hoops. I pulled 6 penny nails out of the reclaimed boardwalk we salvaged last week and...
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    Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

    I mix a gallon of apple cider vinegar, 1/2 cup of table salt and a teaspoon of liquid Dawn and put it in a pump-up sprayer to kill the grass and weeds in a strip along our electric poultry mesh fence. The vinegar and salt do the killing and the soap helps it adhere to the plant long enough to do...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    14/15 today, 12/15 yesterday. Much improved numbers post rowdy roo. The hens look the most relaxed I've seen them in months.
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    Bluing for Algae Reduction

    "Laundry bluing is made of a very fine blue iron powder suspended in water (a colloidal suspension)." "Aquashade is a water-soluble mixture of blue and yellow dyes, which is used as a nonselective herbicide to control young, bottom-growth of plants and algae in contained lakes and ponds...
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    Bluing for Algae Reduction

    Aquashade is intended for ponds and fountains to block out the light that helps cause algae. I don't like to use it with fish or other pond life, even though it states it's safe, and certainly wouldn't recommend it in the chicken waterer. @Folly's place brings up a good point, whatever chemical...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    12/15
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