BIRD netting: my bird netting I not tight, as of yeti have not caught anything. There is all kinds. The netting I got for my chick pen is the type I could see doves getting caught in, a 1" net, diamon shape. The black netting is square and 1/2". It is 14'X 200', cutting to length. I am using PVC at the bottom, lefting it to go under. My girls have figured it out, I have the East side left to do. It is hard on handed, it is really a 2 man job. The low beds I drap it over the frame. The other T - Frame I think I will be planting starters, I will still have to put the netting up. My girls will eat it. On the West T-Frame right now it is my ornge trills strings that mess them up. They can not get through. I have along way to go. West Bed 1 is 1/2 planted, 10' mix Tomato's, 10' Kentucky Pole bean, 10' Blackeye peas. West Bed 2, collards, mustard, turn up greens, Swiss Charr, Bell Peppers, mixed hurbs, Missolanious greens. I have yet to plant Brussels Sprouts and my first planting of broccoli. I plan on 4 planting s 3 weeks apart. Then 15'x2' my Salad plants, mixed including Arugula. Beets, Cucumber, Winter Squash, turnips, 5 different onions (long growing 1 almost a year). Carets, radishes, Zucchini, Eggplant, Shanghai cabbage, Okra, Artichoke, Bok choy, Snow peas, and a few more I can not think of right now, have to look at my list. This summer I hope to have shade cloth over my garden and a mister when it is over 110. I will be planting corn, melons, summer squash, and try to grow other veggies that hate the heat. I hope to fix up the grow out pen for chicken greens garden at some point. I had it nice once. . . It took them a few hours to have nothing left, they loved it. I only have 4 beds, 4'x30', nice size, but I have more vegetables then space, I want variety. Last year to many of limited number. Pluse it was way to expensive.
It was casting me $3X.XX a week to feed it. I am putting dirt in my beds, in a few years it will no longer be a growing medium, but compost, dirt, and gaged fertilizer. I aways feed my plants weekly durning most of their production, but not like that. Contrary to what the preppers that are doing this system, it is reliant on society as it is, not sustainab. Some one mentioned rabbits, a good idea, but you can not sustain then in the low desrt area's. I think if you had Jack Rabits you could. Chickens could survive with minimal supplements. As for how many chickens an acre could support I do not know, nor do I hope I will need to know. I wish I could be prepared for at lest 1 year if there was a disaster. But reality is being prepared for a few weeks and months at best, for me.
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On a depressing,personal problem. My Sister has always had fear of germs, ever sence high school biology. When I grow hydra on lettuce, I remember she freaked out, when I told her I hip just put a leaf of lettuce in water, they were on it to begin with. I am partly at fault.
I was a true little sister, I enjoyed up setting her with gross things, bugs in our food. I eat apples with worms in them, making sure she saw it, (and didn't see me spit it out). She didn't like touching anything dead, like chicken meat, or any raw meat. I had no problem. Maybe I deserve being the disease person in the family? Then there is my older brother! He freaks her out because he dose not always wash his hands before eating, and will eat foods unwashed. My brother spends about 3 months a year over seas, eating all kinds of foods, like. In Bizarre Food, he told her he has to ingest germs or he is afraid he would die because of his travels. He needs his body defenses to be built up. I agree with him, I was surprised when I found out he can drink the water in country's we are wormed not to. He hasn't had Dysentery for over 30 years. 
That's my brother....... Poor sister.
(My sister washes ALL vegetables twice, first in Vinegar and a lot of salt (1/2 - 1 cup), then with just salt (about 1 cup), then rinse very will. I graze in my garden as I check it out. If I'm watering it I'd rinsed in my mind, a few bug eggs do not change the taste, besides bugs are 60% protein, the eggs might be fatty.
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Demosthine your canning sounds fabulous. It is so much better for you, usually not cheaper, that is a real plus.
It was casting me $3X.XX a week to feed it. I am putting dirt in my beds, in a few years it will no longer be a growing medium, but compost, dirt, and gaged fertilizer. I aways feed my plants weekly durning most of their production, but not like that. Contrary to what the preppers that are doing this system, it is reliant on society as it is, not sustainab. Some one mentioned rabbits, a good idea, but you can not sustain then in the low desrt area's. I think if you had Jack Rabits you could. Chickens could survive with minimal supplements. As for how many chickens an acre could support I do not know, nor do I hope I will need to know. I wish I could be prepared for at lest 1 year if there was a disaster. But reality is being prepared for a few weeks and months at best, for me.
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On a depressing,personal problem. My Sister has always had fear of germs, ever sence high school biology. When I grow hydra on lettuce, I remember she freaked out, when I told her I hip just put a leaf of lettuce in water, they were on it to begin with. I am partly at fault.
I was a true little sister, I enjoyed up setting her with gross things, bugs in our food. I eat apples with worms in them, making sure she saw it, (and didn't see me spit it out). She didn't like touching anything dead, like chicken meat, or any raw meat. I had no problem. Maybe I deserve being the disease person in the family? Then there is my older brother! He freaks her out because he dose not always wash his hands before eating, and will eat foods unwashed. My brother spends about 3 months a year over seas, eating all kinds of foods, like. In Bizarre Food, he told her he has to ingest germs or he is afraid he would die because of his travels. He needs his body defenses to be built up. I agree with him, I was surprised when I found out he can drink the water in country's we are wormed not to. He hasn't had Dysentery for over 30 years. That's my brother....... Poor sister.(My sister washes ALL vegetables twice, first in Vinegar and a lot of salt (1/2 - 1 cup), then with just salt (about 1 cup), then rinse very will. I graze in my garden as I check it out. If I'm watering it I'd rinsed in my mind, a few bug eggs do not change the taste, besides bugs are 60% protein, the eggs might be fatty.
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Demosthine your canning sounds fabulous. It is so much better for you, usually not cheaper, that is a real plus.
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