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Don't take duckweed from ponds that you don't know are safe. Duckweed is used for bio-remediation projects because it takes up heavy metals and other contaminates.

Shoot, I'll have to go back to my books and verify my facts. I hate when my memory fails me like that. Must be getting that "sometimers" condition.

Mulberry is a great tree, the berries are delicious. If you get them, you will need a male and a female in order to get the fruit. But look for the native mulberry, Morus rubra L. (red mulberry). It is native in the eastern half of the US. Avoid the white mulberry, it is an invasive species.

My duckweed has been gone for about a month now. We had an early cold spell.

Quote: I've been growing sunflowers since I was a wee lad. Every variety from the mammoth 12 footers to the short ornamental ones. I live in the burbs and we have a ton of squirrels here. Every spring, I get a few that I can hand tame. They will take food from my hand. So some of my plantings...

Have you thought of raised beds or container gardening? For those of you trying duckweed (Lemna minor), I think I forgot to mention that they like a LOT of light. And once it starts to cool down at night, they stop reproducing and start dying off. My 10 x 10 pond was covered all summer long...

Personally, I would not use tadpoles as food. Simply because the frog and toad populations are suffering a world wide decline. I raise as many as possible in my pond and aquarium for release to the wilds of the backyard. If some adult frogs or toads get into the chicken run and get eaten, then...

That was my original logic for getting chickens in the first place. My landscape has been chemical free for years now and I wanted chickens for pest control. The only place I have bugs or weeds is where the chickens are not allowed to forage.

Please be careful when obtaining invasive plants, they can and do escape. According to the USDA Cynoglossum virginianum L. wild comfrey is the native variety. Symphytum officinale L. common comfrey Symphytum asperum Lepechin prickly comfrey Symphytum tuberosum L. tuberous comfrey...

It's not exactly what you are looking for, but this is a good site for plant information, http://plants.usda.gov You can search by common name or the scientific name. Then you can click on the characteristics of the plant, scroll down and see if it used for forage. There is a lot of good...

Many poisons and heavy metals are persistent even after washing. (even in bought veggies)

I would make certain that any duckweed collected is from a pond that hasn't been contaminated. Do you know for certain that the public trails are pesticide free?

No ant problem here, but I found a snack for the hens...

Both are rather difficult to "handle". They are about the same size, 2-5mm and commonly found together so you might get both. When you pick them up with your hand or net, they tend to stick unless you swish them around to break surface tension / capillary action that makes them stick to you. Not...

I am definitely in the wrong business. I would have shipped you some duckweed (Lemna spp.) just for the cost of postage. Can I interest you in some string alga?

If you are collecting duckweed from the wild, please make sure that the pond you get it from isn't contaminated or polluted. Duckweeds (Lemnaceae family) are great for absorbing heavy metals and other pollutants. By the way, duckweed is a common name and may mean different plants in different...

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I took a Master Composter class and the instructor said that it was "impossible" for a backyard compost pile to get hot. I had been monitoring the temperature and it was routinely 150 degrees, and she still would tell that it was impossible. Ya gotta love an expert.

I've been tracking production of my own flock as the control group for this little experiment. Preliminary analysis suggests that egg production is going down, but the size of eggs is going up. I haven't run the stats yet to see if there is a significance but I think there is a relationship...

I would avoid old meat for a number of reasons. If you want "worms" for your chickens, try meal worms. Oatmeal and fruit left-overs would be better for both meal worms and your chickens. Maggots on meat are OK for chickens, but I would not want the rotting meat in my chicken run. Think of a...