Arizona Chickens

[LarryPQ]

Call and keep calling and keep calling and keep calling and keep calling...

I went through this a few years ago with a "no closing costs" re-finance on my dad's house. The company charged kike $6K in closing costs, but thankfully they record all their calls. On the recording, my dad said over and over, "I am hard of hearing, please speak up, I cannot understand you."

HOWEVER-- it took a bajillion calls by me to get up the ladder far enough to have someone actually pull the tapes.

 

[cap1717]

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Oh, I would LOVE a small handful of these seeds! Retirement is going to provide me with time to really enjoy my garden, and Sunflowers are one of my favorite flowers. I will pm my address. . . .thanks

Morning Glory's , Phoenix and weed issues. Ornamental Morning Glory is closely related to "field bindweed", which is considered a noxious weed in Arizona, it is illegal to grow it, as it is a serious pest of cotton crops. Nevetheless, if you live in central Phoenix, especially in the older neighborhoods that have flood irrigation, it is common, and one can see it covering fences all over the place. I love it, too, and will probably try to find some seeds. . . .seed companies cannot ship it to AZ, and it will not be sold in any local nurseries or other seed sources.

Hope all of your chooks are surviving the heat wave. .. .I've been very lucky. . .my yard is shady, I turn the sprinklers on several times a day and have a bit of a "microclimate in the yard that helps a lot.

7 more weeks until retirement!. . . .. and yes, I'm counting!

 

[squeakyballs]

Cap1717 congratulations on retirement! And yes, PM your address!

I'm putting about 100 seeds in an envelope... they don't look like as many as you'd think.

My sister is bringing me MG seeds from out of state, woo!

 

[cap1717]

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Thanks TT, and thanks Laree for the suggestion. And thanks for your suggestion, Laree, I will be visiting Illinois in September for the opening of an art show at my alma mater. . . .I have a piece entered. . .so will l get myself to a nursery there, and pick up a pack of seeds. October should be the perfect time to plant them here. . .the sunflowers, however, will grow pretty much any time. . . .only time to avoid planting them is the dead of winter.

 

[cap1717]

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Thanks laree. . . .I can hardly wait for fall. . . .I will (finally) be planting the garden I've always wanted. . . .probably be getting seeds for heirloom tomatoes, and other non-comercial veggies. . . .really looking forward to finally having the time for that. When I was younger I planted and harvested bumper crops of sugar snap peas, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, etc. . . .I also like to grow birdhouse gourds and other ornamentals. . . .hopefully will have plenty to share. too. . . .

 

[azmotogirl]

Tucson Tofu:
Do not open the packages with the water heaters and send them back "return to sender". (Make sure you write down any tracking info before you RTS the package!) If you DO NOT open them, you DO NOT have to pay return shipping if they are sent by USPS, UPS or FED EX. (I know this because I worked at a UPS store dealing with this stuff all day every day!) If you DO NOT ACCEPT the item and it gets returned to the company they have to refund the payment. The key is DO NOT ACCEPT the item when it is delivered. Have the driver take it back. Maybe this will help.

 

[rufus]

It is 112 degrees in my backyard. It is 78 degrees in Overgaard. We must be crazy for staying down here.

The chickens are taking the heat like champs. Yesterday, I got nine eggs from ten laying hens. I have four poulets that are not laying yet. The one non producer was my brown leghorn. She is my only white egg hen.

We have the lawn sprinklers going off several times a day.

Mahonri why don't you change out that non functional air conditioner for an evaporative cooler. It would be a lot cheaper to run. I remember they used to put huge coolers on the cattle shades at the feed lots and dairies. I know birds have problems with drafts, but at these temperatures, I don't think there would be a problem.

On the question of the morning glory being illegal, I don't think it much matters anymore. It used to be illegal, but you see it all over the Mexican neighborhoods climbing up telephone poles. I doubt any one cares any more.

Used to be you would get in trouble for raising Okra after the state mandated cotton plow up date. Okra is a host for boll weevil and pink boll worm.

We had a problem once with poppies. A beautiful gray green poppy with a pink pom pom blossom grew on its own in an irrigation ditch. Of course we harvested it for the seeds. The next year, we had a whole backyard of these poppies, what the Mexicans call amapola. This lasted until the blooms were just about done, and then the cops came a pulled them. Wrong poppy to be growing.

Mexican women have a thing about plants. And the best plants are stolen plants. We were up past Woods Canyon Lake once on a mission to steal Aspen trees. Well, the ground was hard and full of rocks. I told my wife that we might as well go to the nursery and buy them.

Well, so that the whole trip was not a waste, she found this green vine that she wanted me to dig up. It was poison ivy.

She also found a bunch of big seeds she wanted to plant just to see what grew. They were elk turds.

Rufus

 

[cap1717]

So. . ..as a professional horticulturist, I'm just curious. . ..how many elk sprouted from the turds?

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[squeakyballs]

I know this is dumb... but what does SASBE stand for? - NEVER MIND. I googled it.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/629/

Also, roofles at Rufus! OMG so funny.

 

[Mahonri]

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Lots of shade and lots of cool water.