Are you still keeping them? I grew up in NCC Delaware and I really would like to get a small hobby flock of them. Any idea where I can get some chicks or hatching eggs?
That’s what I’m hoping for but I’m going to wait until our day time temps are cooling off to order them. It’s too hot right now. Don’t want to stress them. I figured I would double the order and save on freight. I have a compost pile I can add them to also.
All of our tomatoes are really behind this year, so we haven’t gotten much out of them yet, but soon.
The Nyagous are a deep brown to black colored baseball sized tomato that grows about 6-8 per truss. They are super flavorful. Literally the best tomato I’ve ever had. They are indeterminate...
I just can’t deal with the lack of choices in variety when buying nursery plants. We buys seeds because we can get traditional heirloom varieties that the nurseries never even heard of. Plus buying plants to transplant has never ended up giving me tomatoes faster. The direct seeded ones...
Nyagous (from Seed Savers Exchange), San Marzano, Hog Heart Paste (Fedco), Sweet Heart (Fedco), and Honey Bunch Grape (Fedco), and some type of tomato currants that my wife ordered...
Ive done it and it works. The problem is the ones you miss. The best bet you’re going to make is to use some pvc pipe or aluminum foil around the main stem of the plant and bi-weekly spraying a bacillus thurungiensis (BT), which is an OMRI listed organic biological control. It’s a bacteria...
Well, I have dug down into the mulch, all the way to the soil on the garden side because last year or Garden drowned under all the water. We get 60” of rain per year here in my area, and with hard compacted clay like we have when you dig a nice big hole in the ground for each of your plants...
I’ve got a question for this topic, especially since it ties in to chickens.
We have a large BTE Garden in year two also. However, the way we run it is like this; we have a 50X112 Garden covered in 8” of mulch. It’s divided in half to 25X112. On one half we grow food. On the other half we...
It’s hard to put a figure on it because you’re in a different area than me, but I can tell you what I would do in my area.
First, you need to make sure that you’re finding a company that does not have access to their own staging yard, so they have to take it to a mulching yard to dump it, which...
My wife will actually stop and tell the guys running the chipper to bring their chips to our place when she sees them working anywhere near our road. Usually, whenever that’s the case, it’s a lot faster for them to drop it at our place rather than drive up north to get rid of it. It saves them...
Well, several things. One is that we have a large property of 14 acres, and have dedicated a 1 acres portion to be used for firewood bucking and splitting, and wood chip dumps. We told the Tree Service they could make as many dumps as they wanted whenever it was convenient for them to dump...
You could be right, it may have grown in them, but all of our chips were green when put down and have been down for over a year. Also we have several large loads of mulch that we received summer of last year that we pull chips to mulch with. We have an aging process in place, but the chips are...
Hey, thanks for the heads up. I’ve been washing them daily with dish soap and leaving them in a solution of soapy water over night and then leaving them out in the sun all day at least one day, then washing them again before reusing them (I have several to be able to do this). This seems to...