Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

Hi guys. I've been canning, 90 something jars done, mostly salsa. Butchering day comming up. 2 drakes two roosters. I'm going to borrow a pressure canner and do soup with the roosters I think...

 

[Ravynscroft]

Hi guys. I've been canning, 90 something jars done, mostly salsa. Butchering day comming up. 2 drakes two roosters. I'm going to borrow a pressure canner and do soup with the roosters I think...

Oh, yummy... homemade salsa from your lovely greenhouse...

 

[BriardChickens]

Hi guys. I've been canning, 90 something jars done, mostly salsa. Butchering day comming up. 2 drakes two roosters. I'm going to borrow a pressure canner and do soup with the roosters I think...

WOW, that's a lot of salsa! Any advice on me starting a garden next year?

I'd really like to plant
tomatoes
zucchini
broccoli
lettuce
spinach
pumpkin
asparagus (to harvest further in the future)
herbs (chives, rosemary, etc)

And I am coming up with a list of fruit and citrus trees that will be going into the ground.

 

[BriardChickens]

Oh and cucumbers, I've seen them as expensive as $4 for local organic!!

 

[hennible]

Yeah I sell my cucumbers for $4 each.
Well garden advice... Prep the site now. Use mulch. Never leave the soil bare, way to many benefits to mulch. Straw, hay, old animal bedding, wood mulch, grass clippings, whatever you have handy... Even gravel. Read over the winter about gardening. Get some frost blankets. Zucchini can do well outside but tomatoes and pumpkin can be tricky in our climate to grow out side. Cold frames are a great option if you don't have a greenhouse. Make compost tea for your pumpkins, tomatoes and zucchini they like to eat! Members of the squash family don't take being transplanted well so be gentle. Get a head star and get things going indoors or buy transplants. Chives are like weeds, they spread and are perennial. Rosemary is perennial too, I buy most herbs, starting from seed has never gone that well for me. Spinach will bolt easily get the seed out early, a shady spot may work... Buy asparagus roots or plants, from seed can take years and years.... Listen to spacing recommendations with your broccoli, or you really won't get much. Plant lots and exspeirment your mistakes will teach you the most... PM me if you want seeds (on here or FB)

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Hit the gardening thead, lazy gardener knows lots and so do many of the regulars on there.

 

[perchie.girl]

Yeah I sell my cucumbers for $4 each.
Well garden advice... Prep the site now. Use mulch. Never leave the soil bare, way to many benefits to mulch. Straw, hay, old animal bedding, wood mulch, grass clippings, whatever you have handy... Even gravel. Read over the winter about gardening. Get some frost blankets. Zucchini can do well outside but tomatoes and pumpkin can be tricky in our climate to grow out side. Cold frames are a great option if you don't have a greenhouse. Make compost tea for your pumpkins, tomatoes and zucchini they like to eat! Members of the squash family don't take being transplanted well so be gentle. Get a head star and get things going indoors or buy transplants. Chives are like weeds, they spread and are perennial. Rosemary is perennial too, I buy most herbs, starting from seed has never gone that well for me. Spinach will bolt easily get the seed out early, a shady spot may work... Buy asparagus roots or plants, from seed can take years and years.... Listen to spacing recommendations with your broccoli, or you really won't get much. Plant lots and exspeirment your mistakes will teach you the most... PM me if you want seeds (on here or FB)

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Hit the gardening thead, lazy gardener knows lots and so do many of the regulars on there.

Sam... are you like a master gardener?

Do all those things work in the desert... ? All I have ever known is the grass grows better in the shade... Now with my health getting better I am contemplating a raised bed... I will NEVER be able to kneel. I never could

I got pleanty of composted horse maneur.e I could mine Katees corral for very very black compost. the Farrier attributes her good hooves to the fact she has that to stand in... Dry hooves here are a very very very big issue.

But I got probably ten years worth of stuff. Yeh Yeh bad horse mommy. But for years i watched it hit the ground and two days later it would be dried and two more days later it would have blown mostly away... I been told the only way to keep water around here is to do either raised beds or something called HUGEculture? Sp..... Its where you piile on wood then pile on dirt over top then let the wood rot... I would never be able to do that...

but a raised bed with a wood and wire bottom I could do... and fill it with Katee poo.

deb

deb

 

[Beer can]

@BriardChickens Burgess seeds has the best prices on asparagus plants, $6.99 for ten jersey knight hybrid. Purple ones ten for $10.99. I got the mary washington ten for $3.96 a few yrs ago. They were ready to eat this yr but I'm waiting one more.

 

[Amberjem]

You are welcome!

better get that incubator going unless you want a winter hatch

what is it?

Dang, but that's what you risk straight run, my first were 3/3...then one of the cockerels got killed by the other 2 so the odds became a bit better and I added some more pullets...

Dang, that's terrible odds

oh violet is ready she decided to go broody the day we left ..sheesh...anyways had mny friend kick her out everyday so she is eating n watered going to slip the eggs under her today

 

[Beer can]

@hennible $4 for cukes, I could have been rich! I've given my father inlaw enough to make five gallons of pickles. I've made fifteen quarts. Going to make a three gallon crock of half sour fermented ones tonight. Have many more to go. Plus we've ate many fresh.
Going to be my first atempt at fermented pickles hopefully they turn out.

 

[Amberjem]

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