Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

 

[vehve]

Looking good, Jembo. It was moving day for my tomatoes today, I moved roughly 40 seedlings into 23 bigger pots.

Now I will have an interesting comparison between natural light and grow lights.




The living room is starting to resemble a nursery.

 

[vehve]

I can't believe the 'maters are only 2 weeks old, or 12 days if you count from when the sprouts hit the surface. Sure, they're pretty small still, but part of that is because I buried them pretty deep in order to promote root growth. Still no second pair of real leaves, but somehow the peat pots were starting to feel crowded for them, they were pushing their roots through them. I could see up to one inch tall roots on the outside on some. I just tore the pots apart a bit and buried them in with the plants. They'll eventually break down, and I don't think they'll hinder root growth that much.

I think my timing this year will be a lot better than last year, when I started the 'maters in February already. I think I might get them outside sometime in mid May or early June, as long as the weather is cooperative. For now we're still getting night frosts, with about 45F daytime highs.

 

[Outpost JWB]

We have planted a garden every year for the past 5 years. Due to different circumstances beyond our control, we have basically broke even every year. Last year's cancer episode was the worst year. In years past we have battled raccoons, terrible winds that blew over the corn, tomatoes, and ruined everything; bugs; weeds; some kind of powdery fungus; and mostly each year here, we have battled SO MUCH RAIN

. We have added truckloads of horse manure, and more will be added this year. My neighbor asked me the other day if I was going to put a garden in. I told him yes, after mother's day. He said "If I was you, I'd give up". He's not me

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Time will be an issue still even though I have went "PART TIME"...LOL! This week I work most everyday and was totally looking forward to having yesterday off, until my branch manager called and asked me to come in. Part time??? 6 days a week??? LOL! At least it's banker's hours!

 

[vehve]

JWB, if I were you, I'd experiment with either raised beds, or putting in some perforated pipe to help drain the garden area, or a combination of both. That way the roots wouldn't get waterlogged as easily.

Nice to hear there's plenty of work to go around.

 

[Outpost JWB]

Yes. I am not complaining about the work. I am working towards hopefully going full time ASAP. We need medical insurance.

I need opinions on my tree. I have a crabapple tree out front. It gets beautiful pink blossoms on it in May. Here is a pic of it now. The 2nd pic is of the trunk. Something has ate a HUGE hole up the trunk of it. I cant tell how much of the trunk is hollow, but it's a lot.






I still have to cut the "sucker trees" down, but hopefully you can see what I am talking about. This tree was sitting in snow/ice/water all winter, but it's fairly dry within a 10' circle around the tree. Any ideas what could have caused this? Hobbits? Gnomes?

 

[vehve]

Definitely not hobbits. They are far too good mannered to do that. The gnomes can be pesky though...

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

I sat on the sidelines.
I watched, because the costs to buy English Orpington eggs were so high.
Pictures of her chicks, hens & roosters were amazing.
People left this seller great feedback on a popular bidding site.
I was still leery to bid so much money for just 4-6 eggs.
She re-enforced each star she had, packed beautifully, received in a timely fashion, one thing missing.
No one said they had great hatch. Did not think about it at the time.
Such glowing comments.
I took the plunge!
Sure buying from someone I dont know, buying from someone I had not bought from, it is a chance and I took it.
A big chance.
I bid and won on several of hers because of her and my correspondence.
She assured me her eggs. Never have problems hatching.
There was a great distance for the eggs to travel. She assured me her eggs had traveled further and they left her stars and good comments.
I Bid/ordered, received eggs, she even prayed over them. Sent me a message saying so.
I bid and won English Orpingtons, white, red, cuckoo, lavender, black spangled, & ted cuckoo. Each bid was around 50. And had 24.95 shipping and handling.
I received the eggs after a long wait.
The eggs had to be laid she said, assuring me fresh eggs.
Got everything I ordered.
Lots of packaging.
I held off a day or two on giving her stars at bid site.
She prodded.
I gave stars.
I wanted to wait till hatch bf leaving stars but that is not proper.
I gave her the stars she wanted.
I waited for hatch.
I candled. Did not like what I saw.
Called for help and WE CANDLED.
WE did not like what we did not see.
Opened half of each shipment.
Never would hatch.
Doubtful a roo was ever in the yard.
Waited for the others.
No hatch.
Friend and I open awful eggs.
NEVER WOULD HATCH.
She sold infertile eggs.
Contacted her.
She lit into me.
Sge turned everything around and nit in a good way. She can twist what was said, man!
Nothing I could do.
Contacted ebay.
Nothing I could do.
Months later I saw her unblemished record had a blemish.
She had a response.
Later ebay removed all signs of blemish!
I did not ebay messes with comments.
Not buying anything from as far away as Texas.
I would not recommend eggs traveling that distance nor would I recommend ordering or bidding on more than one shipment of eggs until satisfaction with one order.
I learned from my experience.
My daddy had an old saying,
Experience is a bitter teacher
BUT a thorough teacher.
So true.
One more thing, I took a closer look at all her pictures. Looked like the same roo and one hen, pairs used for each color variety of Orps. She maybe had 6 pairs and no more. Worse, eggs were not fertile.

 

[vehve]

An'A, that is a crappy experience. I would maybe contact my credit card company about it, if enough people do so she's going to get in trouble. I don't know how things work there, but here the credit card company takes responsibility over fraudulent sales, and if none of the eggs she sold were fertile, I'd say you've experienced fraud.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

An'A, that is a crappy experience. I would maybe contact my credit card company about it, if enough people do so she's going to get in trouble. I don't know how things work there, but here the credit card company takes responsibility over fraudulent sales, and if none of the eggs she sold were fertile, I'd say you've experienced fraud.

I saw chatter about eggs being sold as fertile and they were infertile.
I wanted to tell of my sucker deal I suffered last August. By the time we realized I was sold infertile eggs, I had paid my bill. Then I was told by ebay there was nothing I could do. I used PayPal to pay ebay. Then I paid my charge bill. I got taken. It will not happen again. Know whom your dealing with.