Arizona Chickens



City, as soon as we find someone heading up your direction or from there to here, we'll send the box your way.  It's a bit of a slow method of transport, but it made it's way around the state in just over a year that way!  I go up to the Phoenix area just about every other month, so we could work something out eventually.
Great, I will get my seeds ready.

I love all kinds of greens. Beet, turnip, rudabager, broccoli leaves, and recently I tried kalroby greens.
 
Saw some pretty nice birds at the National Livestock show. Would have loved to hang out longer but didn't have time. Does any one know who had all the beautiful Silkies? There were a lot from mostly just one breeder. A friend of mine is looking for a black roo
Thank you :) Most were mine. There was one stunning blue cock that wasn't. What quality is your friend looking for? I have several that have some leakage that are available--finding a good black is often difficult.
 
Last edited:
Gallo that looks so great! I'm glad I got to see it before because the after pictures are even more impressive!

I also had my garden destroyed, but by painters. We had to have our house painted and when I interviewed painters the first question I asked was about how they would cover the garden. I went with the painter that took my question seriously even though he charged more. Of course, the guy that came out to talk to me wasn't there when they painted the garden side of the house and when I got home I found paint splatters on Everything in my garden! I had to completely remove all plants and scrape the top layer of soil out. We lost a whole season of beautiful lettuce and greens. The painter reduced his bill quite a bit, but I'd still rather have my garden.
This year's garden was a bust. I don't know what's wrong but I think something(birds?) is eating everything but the garlic and some kale as soon as it sprouts. :(

Becky mine was more devastating than paint and top soil. Our city mandated sewer installed. My son dug out a garden for me 20+ years ago. He dug down 2 ft and sifted all the rocks out of the dirt, placed it back in and we amended to get it perfect. My garden area is 15 ft x 30 ft. For years we had huge harvests out of this desert land. One year I counted over 3000 tomatoes off of 36 plants. Every crop you can imagine other than corn.

The sewer project required that our existing septic tank be crushed so a homeowner couldn't hook back up to it on their own. Most new houses have a septic in the front yard. Guess where my septic was?? Yep, right under my garden. They had to dig up the garden to smash the tank. I BEGGED them to PLEASE take out the first couple feet of soil and put it in one pile, then dig out the rest and put it in another pile. Crush my tank then put the rocky soil back in and top with my good soil. Did they listen? NOOOOOO! They took a bobcat and dug like the dickens and piled all the soil together and dumped it all back in the garden.

My pH was completely off, I had giant boulders in my planting beds. I would try to plant and the seedlings would die just after sprouting. My roto-tiller couldn't even make it through the soil without taking out a limb from the huge rocks. I was devastated. My heart and spirit for gardening completely broken. It has taken me about 6 years to even plant a seed. I have bought potted herbs for my little side garden and have had success.

I had a similar situation as yours with seedlings being eaten I planted bok choy, chard, kale and spinach.. 2 rows each. I put floating row cover on them, started to see seedlings and a day or two later, NOTHING! the entire rows vanished! I am guessing a lizard of some sort cause who else could get under row cover? Certainly not birds or bunnies! I will forge on...
 
Quote:

Whoa, that must have been fun! Did you guide in the NM or UT stretch? Just below Navajo Dam near the NM/CO border is where we go to fish the San Juan. We call it the "Disneyworld" of fly-fishing, a few days there will leave you with a grin on your face for weeks. Years ago while traveling up to MT and WY on a fishing trip we stopped in the middle of the night at Goosenecks State Park in UT. We parked the camper and set it up in the parking lot in the dark and woke up in the morning to one of the most surprising and stunning views of the San Juan.

(not my picture):

 
Happy New Year! I hope everyone has a safe, healthy, and productive year!
wee.gif
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom