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[JimWWhite]

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I think someone else has already said that these are cool weather crops. I only plant brussel sprouts, brocolli, cauliflower, etc. in the fall. All can take a little frost. In fact, brussel sprouts don't even taste good until they've been hit with a good frost. Cabbage too fits this category. If I plant cabbage in the early spring I plant it as early as February and hope it matures before the bugs come on. But you shouldn't be concerned with that for fall plantings.

 

[karl E lutz]

Good morning chicken wranglers,
And ranchers and gardeners. Nice looking garden you got going there.
Mine got eaten up by the coons. I had 10 rows of sweet corn 70 feet long and the rotten critters ate all but 2 doz. ears. Ieven dispatched 3 of them but there must be at least 7 or 8 for them to get that much.
Oh yeh they only take it as it gets ripe and they'll always be 1 day ahead of you.
Well 3 are dead now. The trap got torn up by the last one , he was a 30 Lb. boar.
By the way reeses peanut butter cups work great if you dont have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to bait with. I have caught 3 coons in the corn and 1 in the barn"killing chickens" so far this year.
I spent the night at boy scout camp last night and after work I go again. My 11 year old is at camp for the first time and he wanted to go home last night "course mean ol dad said NO! Well ya'll have a great day! God bless!

 

[rancher hicks]

I've never planted brussels before and quite frankly it would take alot more than a frost to make them taste good, IMO. I just planted them for my SIL and he's moving to Houston at the end of the month. The broccoli went to seed before I picked it cuz I wasnt' sure it was done. It was lighter than the store stuff and not as compact.

Lutz sorry about your corn. I haven't planted that cuz i figure the deer would get it. I have lettuce and a rabbit hanging around but it hasn't touched any of the other stuff. The chickens ate practically every thing last year til I fenced it in. They like the soft soil to roll in so I had to refill beds this year.

Only the little ones can get in now til I cover the gate with wire. The big girls can't get in and don't seem interested in jumping over the spiked fenceing.

Wish someone had sent me away to camp when I was 11. I would have not wanted to go home but that's another story. Anyhow, I expect he won't die, so stick to your guns.

As for the coons they are tuf to get when you have domesticated animals around otherwise I'd use my famous peanutbutter sandwich.

Well coffees gone and I gotta mow some grass before it rains. Plus I got some new lumber for a new bed in my garden. $2.07 for four boards. Not bad for a 4x4 raised bed. Non treated of course.

Have a good day.

 

[math ace]

RANCHER HICKS - - -

I went back and looked at your pictures of the garden - - - -
three questions - - -

1.) Are the BIG cans at the base of your plants for cut worms, mole crickets. or what ?

2.) Do you have a supplier of those big cans or are they from your family's own personal consumption?

3.) What are the plastic gallon jugs' purpose?

 

[math ace]

Good Morning Everyone,

I have been out of the loop for a few days. We have been so busy with "Honey Dos" that I haven't had a chance to do anything in my garden. There are tomatoes and okra and yellow squash that still need to be picked - - - but I just don't have the TIME !

I am hoping to get caught up on all these tasks soon so that I can do some fun things - - - gardening and sewing.

 

[JimWWhite]

Yeah, with this heat my okra's exploding. I've been taking in a large bowl every evening. Yesterday Teresa took the last two batches I brought in and canned them as hot okra pods. She put them up in quart jars with the whole raw pods pushed in vertical to the jars as tight as she could get them. First she put in a whole sliced jalepeno pepper with the seeds, a teaspoon of garlic, the okra pods, and then poured hot nearly boiling white vinegar over them to fill the jars up. Then they went into a hot bath for a few minutes and she took them out to cool. She canned 4 quarts yesterday and by the end of the season we'll have another 12 jars at least. If you've never had them you don't know what a delicacy you're missing! They're not slimy like some people think okra is. They have a nice crunch to them and they are really tasty. Last year I gave a jar to a co-worker who swore she'd never eat okra and she said she took it home and she and her husband ate the entire jar watching tv that night. She came in the next day begging for another jar.

 

[karl E lutz]

Good morning chicken wranglers
Another night in scout camp and rain rain thunder and more rain. looks like the rain is here to stay all week ,wet shoes and wet heads, oh well another week in Paradise! God bless!

 

[Sissy]

Good morning all you
flock tenders, Karl,I hope you and your group didnt get too wet
we had rain here again yesterday,but just enough to wet things down
and not get muddyed up.
tomatoes ,Dill and Basil, cucs, being picked.
didnt have the time for more plantings,
my 9 new fuzzy butts are
growing by leaps and bounds and need a coop,
they are 7 weeks old.
thinking of spliting up the
large coop in half. to make room for them.
I still dont know what the 2 are
I have , that have yellow feathered feet
4 toes and came from crossing
a White silkie Roo over a black silkie hen.

 

[karl E lutz]

Woo hoo got my egg liscense today. We call our brand THE GOOSE'S EGGS! after my daughter!

 

[rancher hicks]

Ok here goes.
1. The cans at the base of my plants is so I can just go around with the hose and fill each can and not waste water. It also speed watering time. I also think since they are metal they heat the soil and helps my tomatos grow.
2. i get the cans from the school. I have a friend in the kitchen and she saves them for me.
3. The plastic jugs have the bottoms cut out and two "shims" stapled to the sides. I push the shims into the ground to hold them over my plants as mini green houses. They work great and they even fit over the top of the cans once the tomatos get bigger. I save them from year to year. They also protect the young plants.

Jim I've have got to grow some okra and thanks for the info of storing it. I bought a bunch of canning jars last year so hopefully the blight won't hit and I can use them this year.

Sissy that's what I did, split my coop in half. Now I can seperarte my dels for breeding.

Karl, what is an "egg license"?

Busy day today so no moring coffee at home.

DS and family still here with 3 kids and the house has been full and busy. Will be a month of Sundays cleaning up from the crew. I'll probably die from it.

Oh, almost forgot, DD is officially full term and since she lives here the excitement just won't end. Not to mention the two hens sitting on eggs. Lord have mercy!

Leftover pizza and wings for dinner.omg. No wonder I'm fat!