Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

Good looking chicks,silkies?

cute

 

[buddy phoenix]

Morning everyone

 

[CanuckBock]

lol I'll getcha some pictures later.. I been organizing the greenhouse slowly, fiddling with cleaning up raised beds...and need to get the strawberrys under management...and transplant some to another bed...and need to get my broccoli, spinach, beans, and califlower going...move the chicken tractor and prep the raised bed it was at...figure will do my basil, beans , leeks carrots, chervil in the bed that did corn squash last year...in it oh andf marigolds going some pineapple sage as well

Look forward to yer pics...showed you mine, eh...yer turn!

I have once again seriously converted over to seed catalogues (instead of just going loco as I did last year to top up my mailed in seedness hordes) and am on a pilgrimage to go heritage, (non-GMO & non-hybrid is natch), and gonna teach this old B-Dog a few new tricks...ordering a seed saving book! Part of the hobby I have never much explored. May or may not have the season length to actually save up seeds for like beans, but hey...get tomatoes, you got seeds (one variety had me pondering...lack of seeds--sorta like no seed watermelons, eh--which had me thinking...donna order THAT one!). Gonna see as that too will save $ in this hobby with extended benefits. I will give people a heads up, at least here in the Great White North, 50% of the people I have asked are gonna do a garden this year...to me, all those catalogues THIS year that have listed seed at such and such a price...I see a market explosion and price hikes NEXT year...order early and order spares to carry one over...this down turn has a five to seven year ring on it and well, I love to garden but fudging thru a lack of supply in seeds would miff me. Get yer seeds, do it now and buy extra so you are not coined out next year!

I know Bam saves and trades seeds...seen him talking about drying them and mailing, etc. So I may have to pick his grey matter and he don't know it quite yet, but he'll be my GO to Mun, Okay! (my only GMO, eh)...when I hit the pending

I am likely to fall into trying to figure how to do this seedy saving thingmabobberdohickey.

Heh heh heh...revenge is sweet...SWEETEST fed bit by frigid cold bit, eh! What can I say, I'm a girl...

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The only trouble with all my catalogues, making sure I don't order the same plants from two different companies...besides...right now fighting with myself ("Take that...and that...stay down B...DOWN! STAY!") on just what beans and what tomatoes to bring in. There are pages and pages of choices and being an avid nutbar about loving the oddities (love myself indeed--I need a HUG), do you want the purple streaked with yeller beans or the more reliable gonna grow good when we get frosts boring plain yeller beans (do NOT eat yellow snow).

Heck, I already got two canes of Chester blackberries ordered which seals my doom of raising them permanently IN the New Orchard greenhouse...fur now at least. I might venture out and try a sucker or two once the main two canes get going...years down the road in the planning. But ain't that the greenersthumb way...first thing we did here was get them shelterbelts IN...that was in spring of 1999 and now we gotta start cutting the hedges and realizing, you can't SEE in here for the trees.

Yup...fighting with myself (quite amusing in a very sadistic sic way to watch--wet paper bag and she still can't kick it out) over what to get when one has too many choices. I am thinking I'll help myself (clepping) and maybe look at raising only the novel not normal kinds of veg...that way I won't have two tons of green zukes...I'll have five tons of yellow and seven tons green striped ones to leave inside unlocked vehicles in the Village---bwa ha ha...laughed because I noted at the office in town...there's been a cardboard box thar at times with tons of the excess..."help yerself!"

People that will likely get my biz this year so far are T&T Seeds, Mapple, Heritage Harvest (this one scares me to heck...oh the TOO many choices!)...there's a few others but I got moi a stack of catalogues to continue to pour over...

Here's a free hit...to get the addictions started up...and I am no more kinder to the people north or south of the friendliest border in the world, eh...

Yank one...
http://www.seedsavers.org/

Canuck one...
http://www.seeds.ca/

Heck...the bonus there are Seedy Saturdays and even the SEED GIVEAWAYS...you exchange yer sicknesses fur free, eh! Bartering, trading, exchanging UNdogly GERMinations...good gack...I won't be wandering down that garden path in no time soon...hoping...ha ha ha!

Well anyhoo got the white dog bus to go fetch this afternoon from the SIL's digs, so better get the dogs back outside fur fun so we can run away goofy knowing their dog tired...it's all about the ride, never the destination!

Hugs and keep that good dirt under wraps (that be yer fingernails, eh! Wear THAT badge of honour with pride Womans!).

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[Beer can]

Good looking chicks,silkies?

The one in back isn't a silkie.

 

[buddy phoenix]

No snow who sendin this my way?

 

[Beer can]

@CanuckBock ever grow mammoth mangle beets for chickens?
Planting a 1/4 pound this spring.
I've looked into saving seeds. Might be difficult for some things, crossbreeding/cross pollination. Brassica's, kale,broccoli, cauliflower, collards all will cross breed, pumpkins with summer squash and winter squash, carrots with queen anne's lace. I plant two varieties of tomato, don't want them crossed.
I've even had potato plants grow tomatoes.

 

[buddy phoenix]

Sup beer can?

 

[hennible]

Drat!
Air cells look like day 14, but it's day 18.... Blah
Hmmmm

 

[Peep_Show]

Amber --

Your Feb vegetable garden looks nice and low maintenance..... Enjoy!

 

[1kluckychik]

Morning everyone

Hey buddy. Hows it goin?