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[Myabcs3]

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What are you planning on doing with the pumpkins? Here if I want them for Halloween I plant them around the first of August.

Some of it is for the chickens, the rest is for me cooking/canning/freezing. So should I stagger plant? Or just not plant at all until later in the season?

 

[Katy]

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What are you planning on doing with the pumpkins? Here if I want them for Halloween I plant them around the first of August.

Some of it is for the chickens, the rest is for me cooking/canning/freezing. So should I stagger plant? Or just not plant at all until later in the season?

If you don't care about them for Halloween I'd go ahead and plant them now.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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What are you planning on doing with the pumpkins? Here if I want them for Halloween I plant them around the first of August.

Some of it is for the chickens, the rest is for me cooking/canning/freezing. So should I stagger plant? Or just not plant at all until later in the season?

hopefully all the negative energy that has been on the Kansas threads is over I really want to reply to this post.




I would plant know. You want your plants healthy and strong before the squash bugs get to them.

 

[Myabcs3]

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Some of it is for the chickens, the rest is for me cooking/canning/freezing. So should I stagger plant? Or just not plant at all until later in the season?

hopefully all the negative energy that has been on the Kansas threads is over I really want to reply to this post.




I would plant know. You want your plants healthy and strong before the squash bugs get to them.

Thanks Katy and ByNature! I knew I could count on my fellow Kansans for advice! I am out to plant!

 

[JulieNKC]

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Some of it is for the chickens, the rest is for me cooking/canning/freezing. So should I stagger plant? Or just not plant at all until later in the season?

hopefully all the negative energy that has been on the Kansas threads is over I really want to reply to this post.




I would plant know. You want your plants healthy and strong before the squash bugs get to them.

Can chickens eat squash bugs? Will they? Those things give me the creeps.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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hopefully all the negative energy that has been on the Kansas threads is over I really want to reply to this post.




I would plant know. You want your plants healthy and strong before the squash bugs get to them.

Can chickens eat squash bugs? Will they? Those things give me the creeps.

Yes but my chicken would also eat my zucchini, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. tomatoes, peppers and zucchini were their fav.

 

[Ivywoods]

Some people told me the chickens ignore the squash bugs and go for the plants instead. I'm hatching some guineas, so I am hoping they will go for the bugs.

Well, back outside I go. I've still got some weeding to do and strawberries to plant. With whatever time I have left this evening I still plan to work on the fence for the grow out pen.

 

[Konza]

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I'm trying to do the same. When I ran out of squash they (the bugs) put holes in my beans and then moved on to my tomatoes!

Speaking of beans...time to get plantin'. I hope the cold is finally over. I sure would like to see them come up.

 

[Myabcs3]

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My youngest son believes we should add guineas! I just remember them as being really noisy when I was a kid - I know they are great with bugs and a terrific alarm system, but...I want to stay with just chickens for a while. Every season with chickens has brought us something to modify!

 

[chicken danz]

I've been moving chicks to the brooder and from the brooder to different pens. What a mess. I am totally exhausted. Managing chicks hatched over a three month period is way to much work. But that is where the money is so I'll keep doing it. I did get one littl etree and a bush planted that needed it badly. My dirt is like trying to dig in solid rock and then it wont break up when you do. I add all kinds of things to it but it still makes for really hard work.