Dixie Chicks

[Outpost JWB]

whats a dewberry...?

deb

A dewberry is related to a blackberry or raspberry. Tastes like a blackberry. They grow good in sandy, dry, soil and very warm climates. Alabama having the most plants of this type. I don't think they would grow well in Ohio. Its super wet here for most of the year and our soil is clay like, not sandy. Although we do have a pretty good size patch of wild blackberries out back. DH mows a pathway around the back of the property and July-August, we pick the blackberries. Last year I froze 13 quarts of them. Nothing better than blackberry cobbler on Christmas day!

Gotta go check on all the newbies! I am super excited. I want to mark the new ones because they are related. @minihorse927 , the CCLs I got from you, some are marked with cable ties. In your opinion, is that the best way? They still have them and it's working well. I have the related ones separated. I just didn't know if you have discovered another way of marking them that may be better.

 

[vehve]

JWB, legbands are pretty cheap on ebay too. I bought a bag with 200 of them, haven't used a single one. It really isn't that hard to tell apart a handful of chickens that are all different breeds

Just be sure to check on the zip ties from time to time, you really don't want them restricting blood flow to the foot.

Chilis are still alive, the compost hasn't killed them yet. They have a lovely dark green color. It's cloudy and rainy today, but tomorrow the sun should come out and play again, it will be exciting to watch them grow. I should probably move the rest of the chilis soon too, the 9cm (3½") pots are starting to get a bit small for them. I actually measured the pots, and it seems the package is lying a bit. They're square pots, and at the top, the inside of the pot is 7.5 cm wide (3") and the height is 7cm. The bigger ones I put the three chilis are about 2½ times bigger volumewise, so they should be fine in them for a while.

We have a lot of stones we needed to do something with, so we started making the plum tree bed a bit higher.



It's quite a puzzle trying to balance rocks on top of each other. Still need to dump some more soil in there. I can't wait for it to get it's leaves out, I'm super excited to see how it does in that spot. The surrounding rock will ensure that the bed stores a lot of heat in itself, and the fact that it's raised should keep it from getting too wet. I don't know what the run off from the coop will do though, it's going to be getting a steady and heavy supply of natural fertilizer, it's pretty close to the shortest path of the draining water from the coop.

 

[Amberjem]

 

[chickisoup]

 

[minihorse927]

A dewberry is related to a blackberry or raspberry.  Tastes like a blackberry.  They grow good in sandy, dry, soil and very warm climates.  Alabama having the most plants of this type.  I don't think they would grow well in Ohio.  Its super wet here for most of the year and our soil is clay like, not sandy.  Although we do have a pretty good size patch of wild blackberries out back.  DH mows a pathway around the back of the property and July-August, we pick the blackberries.  Last year I froze 13 quarts of them.  Nothing better than blackberry cobbler on Christmas day!

Gotta go check on all the newbies!  I am super excited.  I want to mark the new ones because they are related.  @minihorse927
, the CCLs I got from you, some are marked with cable ties.  In your opinion, is that the best way?  They still have them and it's working well.  I have the related ones separated.  I just didn't know if you have discovered another way of marking them that may be better.

those zip ties are numbered too. I zip tie each years hatch with a different colored leg band that I order from strombergs. I only use them as adults. The little ones I zip tie if I have one I want to hold on to but have to watch them carefully to make sure they don't outgrow them.

 

[chickisoup]

DUH!!!! How did we invent the lamp, the TV, computer and all the rest of the corded "thingies" and only
finally NOW come up with this????

 

[vehve]

Those have been around for ages, they're just not that widely used. I like the angled regular models too, they're easy to grip.

 

[Beer can]

I never saw them before, I have saw angled ones like yours vehve, but ours are a little different Lol!.

 

[vehve]

Just a different plug. These can be plugged in facing up or down (or if the outlet is installed sideways, left or right). Plus, compared to the one in the picture, these are safer because you connect the ground before you connect the live wire. I thought the ground pin is usually longer on US plugs, or are they often the same length like in that one? Anyway, the red one is the standard grounded 230V European plug. There are straight versions too, and then there are un-grounded ones. Those aren't as popular anymore.

 

[Beer can]

Had to clean the silkies brooder box so they got to go outside and play. They were not to enthused.