➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[NanaKat]

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Love the patio! And your sign too.

You don't understand...I even managed to kill a zucchini plant...

It was probably vine borer or squash bugs.

Oh that’s not too bad. Have you tried potatoes? They are pretty fool proof. Anything that’s a root vegetable is usually really easy. Carrots, turnips, etc. if you can grow grass you can grow asparagus too! I believe in ya!

Agreed! A lot of success or failure has to do with each season. Soil preparation, drainage and varieties local to your area also contribute.
Even very successful gardeners have bad years.
Last year my tomatoes and pepper did poorly!
I had 250 tomato vines and probably harvested a 5 gallon bucket full. The Farmers Market didn't have many either.
Peppers finally put on a fall crop after being bare all summer. The cucumbers had an early flush and the simply wilted and field. The spaghetti squash was prolific, got a few butternut and zucchini and all the others petered out way too early.
Keep trying....you learn from those failures.
You might look into putting in a small raised bed...maybe 4 X 4, position it to get a minimum of 6 hours of sunshine, and fill it with garden soil and compost. Set your plants and mulch them with either straw, leaves or more compost.
Radish and lettuces don't need mulch. Seed them, water and watch them pop up.

 

[RUNuts]

Here, some proof of my sanity: the 11 Leghorns and 1 Australorp I got plus a bantam I hatched last month. I wasn't going to get any Australorps this year, but they only had the 11 Leghorns and I just couldn't get an odd number of chicks.

Strange. I'm trying to stay with prime numbers. #13 just passed. So I'm at an even dozen for chickens - 5 leghorns, 6 EE and 1 Australorp cross. Not only is it not prime, it has it's own name.

If I set 13 eggs, I'll get 3 hens. Hmm. Still no balut.

Pretty chicks. I'm leaning towards Australorp crosses from Chicken Rancher.

How??

2x squash vine borers. I fought them valiantly last year, but only got a few zucchinis & butternuts before ripping then all up.

 

[Molpet]

2x squash vine borers. I fought them valiantly last year, but only got a few zucchinis & butternuts before ripping then all up.

I read to start them later by a month to miss the bores, worked for me last year

 

[RUNuts]

I read to start them later by a month to miss the bores, worked for me last year

Thought about trying that. I had squash vine borers all summer. Cut them out and fed to the chickens. Plants healing and reinfected. Aggravating to see the fruit dying.

July hits and everything wilts. Then August gets hotter.

The chickens spread pumpkin seed everywhere. I need to put wire around to see if any will make this year.

 

[BantyChooks]

Strange. I'm trying to stay with prime numbers. #13 just passed. So I'm at an even dozen for chickens - 5 leghorns, 6 EE and 1 Australorp cross. Not only is it not prime, it has it's own name.

If I set 13 eggs, I'll get 3 hens. Hmm. Still no balut.

Pretty chicks. I'm leaning towards Australorp crosses from Chicken Rancher.

2x squash vine borers. I fought them valiantly last year, but only got a few zucchinis & butternuts before ripping then all up.

Prime numbers are painful.

 

[RUNuts]

Prime numbers are painful.

I only use the small ones.
Have you seen this one?

 

[BantyChooks]

I only use the small ones.
Have you seen this one?

 

[RUNuts]

Such a one track mind.

From whence did thee source the Leghorns?

 

[BantyChooks]

Such a one track mind.

From whence did thee source the Leghorns?

Feed store got chicks in. It's been a long and torturous wait, with you southies having them so early and all.

 

[BantyChooks]

I think my Buff Chanteclers will be laying shortly as well. Their faces are quite red.