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  1. Sylvester017

    What did you do in the garden today?

    DH picked this Angel Red Pomegranate off the tree this morning hiding deep inside the tree branches. He had to drown some Pom spiders out of the split crack. Our chickens love Pomegranate trees for shade & they love to eat the seeds too! We have 3 different varieties of Pomegranate trees ~...
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    The way I looked at it, by the time we bought good materials & proper tools to build our own structures it was just as reasonable for us to invest in the portable, easy to fold/store away cages, to have on hand for many seasons' use. For large property & permanent field crops these pre-made...
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    Yep, the square cages cost more than the flimsy round... had to buy the squares in sets a little at a time before we had enough square cages (about 20) for both front & back yards. These come in sets of small medium or tall. These are the medium so we could still fit the bird netting over them...
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    Tomatoes/plants are supposedly toxic to most living animals, humans, or insects... even crickets stay away. Seems only tomato horned worm moths/caterpillars love the plant. If tomatoes are toxic, someone forgot to tell my chickens cuz they've been eating them for 14 yrs!
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    Tomato vines do grow unruly & some artistic gardeners do all sorts of string supports, pruning suckers, & fussing to grow special or large size fruit for county fairs or arboretum clubs... but I just grow tomatoes any ol' way that gives me enough to freeze for winter use. I let my plants grow...
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    One word ~ MOSQUITOS ‼️
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    Would something like this work to trap chipmunks? We bought this to trap a baby squirrel but caught a rat instead. Worked following instructions so well to catch rats we left it out all year & got dozens of rats & DH drowned them in a deep trash barrel each time.
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    Don't waste good honey on cooked jam cuz honey will lose its health benefits when heated. Just bite the bullet & use cane or beet white sugar to sweeten jam. My Mom used to make her apricot jam w/a lot less sugar than the recipe so we could taste the fruit more than overly sweet sugar taste. JMHO.
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    You are so lucky you didn't break a bone in your fall to the garage! I also fell last year carrying a big box to the garage only I had to go by ambulance to ER w/ a broken humerus, bruised chest & leg, forehead bump & black eye!! Had surgery to put a plate & pins to hold the humerus together...
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    We were going to pull it but it has fruit on it now :idunno~ the other two plants are keeping us in zucchini so we curiously want to see what this one does :lau
  12. Sylvester017

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    Still trying to figure out why one zucchini plant on the right is still way smaller than the other two plants... although it does have blossoms & zucchini growing on it? So odd:idunno
  13. Sylvester017

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    Volunteer seedling mystery solved. One of the chickens' raw sunflower seeds took root but DH was expecting it to be a cucumber plant. He moved it from the raised garden bed to a pot (above pic) & found this today.
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    THOR! ONE OF MY FAVORITE FANTASY HEROES.
  16. Sylvester017

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    I agree... postal service decades ago was different w/ employees who had values. Today's population of employees don't know how to operate the espresso machine at Starbucks w/o checking their cell phone for instructions :idunno
  17. Sylvester017

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    DH is all happy harvesting his plants! He's been baking a lot of quiches from the Silkie eggs & a lot of dinners for us w/ his zucchini & herbs. The cukes & cherry tomatoes go mostly to the hens. Even the small zucchini plant on the right survived & is sprouting blooms. Nature is so surprising...
  18. Sylvester017

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    DH found a cuke hiding under a leaf & took a pic of it next to our dinner zucchini. The cuke was just named "Burpless" & have no idea how it will taste. We loved our Sweeter Success cuke w/the smaller seeds & less water content. Not sure I like the look of this spikey cuke:( Burpless cuke & a...
  19. Sylvester017

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    Hoping for good luck in your chick introduction :fl We never hatched chicks or had broody mama hens ~ we're only zoned for 5 hens/no roos, so we mostly acquired our birds from 2 months to 6 months old from private breeders or a feed store. A couple times we tried chicks. Whenever we got new...
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    Cowboy Candy? Have to ask DH if he'll make some for me to try. He experiments w/ chili's every yr but jalapeno is a staple plant every season for him.
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