Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[21hens-incharge]

I just tear 'em up and do a quick boil for soup noodles. Cooking takes the spikiness out of the leaves as well. Like most greens they're fairly neutral in flavor - a bit of peppery quality, but not too strong. No need for the meat, just treat it as you would something like spinach, and it should turn out fine.

This is how we do them too. No need for a meat added.

 

[dirkandlorie]

I agree, way easier than spinach or kale.
Doesn't get the bugs that kale does, doesn't bolt in the slightest heat like spinach does, and is cut and come again just like lettuce. If mulched over after first frosts, and the winters are milder, it will come back in the spring on it's own like kale and spinach does.

For anyone that is a fan of beets, the darker red stalked ones have a beet undertone, especially the stalks, and all the stalks have almost the same crunch as celery does. I'll chop the freah white or pale stalks up into stuff just like celery.

I mulch heavily and enclose them in row covers, I can harvest all winter long. Doesn't grow as fast in winter, but always enough to feed the chickens fresh greens every day, even with a couple of inches of snow on the ground. Yes, I know how delicious they are, but my 'girls' come first, lol.

 

[drumstick diva]

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I come to bury Cesar not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Cesar.

How's that from H.S. I was 16, I'm 72 now.

 

[drumstick diva]

Et tu Brute'

 

[drumstick diva]

Cap I got off my med end of year, felt really good then Covid popped up. Having a bad time about it. Had doctor put me back on my med.I need it!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

BYC member @woodmort passed away 4/29 from complications from the coronavirus. Rip, woodmort, you will be missed.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/woodmort-aka-jim-mortensen.1376371/

Thank you for posting this here. I saw that thread earlier. His son is asking for help dealing with his father's coops. My heart hurts.

 

[MROO]

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I come to bury Cesar not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Cesar.

How's that from H.S. I was 16, I'm 72 now.

I am duly impressed! I sometimes have trouble remembering all the words to The Alphabet Song!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I come to bury Cesar not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Cesar.

How's that from H.S. I was 16, I'm 72 now.

Well done!

 

[drumstick diva]

Of course, I put things away for safe keeping, and I never can find them again. So that makes it safe right??

 

[Folly's place]

"The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven on the place beneath". Shakespeare again, a comedy which wasn't funny at all. Ninth grade, 'The Merchant of Venice". Don't bother, "Romeo and Juliet" would have been much more interesting!
Mary