Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Dreamzchaser]

If all I get is vomiting and the runs, that's a wun. Jardiance was horrible for sure and side effects lasted 2 months after I stopped taking it.
Mrs. Mary. The other speckle gave me her fairy egg today. Need to get some bigger rings for them. They have thick legs.

I was finally coming to my senses; what am I going to do with 20 eggs per day? I might start lifting weights,lol

 

[Sally PB]

No tomatoes. I decided after years of spending most of my gardening time nursing them along only to get a few tomatoes and have the rest of them freeze or rot, it was far more cost-effective and a lot less irritating to go to the weekly farmers market and buy some. Same with cucumbers.

Growing tomatoes for me is not really cost effective. I can buy a couple bushel for my canning needs, and save the space and time. I grow them mostly for canning, and the farmer's market sell perfectly fine processing tomatoes. It's a matter of pride, I think, to be able to grow all the tomatoes I need.

 

[Sally PB]

I am going to get some butternut squash after all! I have 5 on 3 vines. Three of the squash are the kind I used to get, big and hefty. The other two have scrawny necks and a smaller seed cavity, but I can get something out of them, even if it's chickie snack.

 

[picklestheduck]

I am going to get some butternut squash after all! I have 5 on 3 vines. Three of the squash are the kind I used to get, big and hefty. The other two have scrawny necks and a smaller seed cavity, but I can get something out of them, even if it's chickie snack.

Good! Our garden went out of hand and I had so much acorn, spaghetti and butternut squash is was insane. We actually made a little website for family and friends with inventory so they can make orders, and pick them up when we go into town. We’ve put a little bit of everything on there, tomatoes, cabbage, kale, squash, zucchini, and more tomatoes oh and some eggs when we have extra. We supply many families at church and other friends with eggs usually, but sometimes we have extras that we can sell. There’s one family in particular with a little girl who is allergic to chicken eggs but found she can eat duck eggs, and her little eyes lit up when I handed her the carton of duck eggs. I’m pretty allergic to eggs so I don’t get to enjoy them, but it makes my heart happy to supply families who will enjoy them. There’s one family in particular who has many allergies, their diet consists of a ton of eggs. I sell between 4-8 dozen a week to them alone.

 

[chickflick]

First pullet egg of the year! A nice chocolate brown from my French Marans pullet, almost 22 weeks old! She didn't know what she was doing, the egg was on the ground right outside of the coop. Still terrific!
Mary

Still waiting on the pullets I got from you. They're beautiful. But I'm confused. Edna has a big comb and wattles and tail is flat off her back. Elsa barely has a tiny comb and wattles and an upright tail.. Was afraid Edna was a rooster but no crowing yet at 5 months.

 

[Folly's place]

Pictures! We got two cockerels in our order of six BLR Wyandotte pullets this year. It does happen.
Mary

 

[Dreamzchaser]

Hi there! No runs but been vomiting. Guess it is getting better. However I need surgery on my vocal cord box but still not clear from the cardio side. Next week have another test being done. Hate them because can barely eat or drink anything for 48hrs.
Itty-bitty still trying to fill those lungs and hack a crow but not yet. It is hilarious to hear him try,poor funny guy. The others were not as bad as him. Then, he is the smallest of them all exchis aunt Baby'mama who is also a bantam. Pitbull is super happy with Lupita and Jlo. He is so adorable and sweet. I think that he wants to lay eggs. He can sit for hours on the nesting box whether the girls are going to lay or not. He gets comfy and cares for nothing in the world,lol And he is such a handsome stud!
Missed the last farmers market to set up my booth. Also collected everything from the Forrest that grew in the garden. I am back to square 0. The grass and weed came through the black thing,that had straw and covered with cardboard boxes. I got some serious weeds,lol

Sally, the Egyptian walking onions were not onions but garlic. Huge bulbs of garlic. Got not decent potatoes on this last batch. Lots of tiny ones. Tomatoes are all like cherry tomatoes. Tomorrow hope to start processing them. Will make sauce for sure and a good part for spaghetti sauce. Peppers never grew up. Just small peppers even though I planted bell peppers. Not many sweet peas nor beans but i used them on a beans soup with a bit of chicken and it was really good. Tired of crocheting and making amigurumi. Need to get some sleep. Later lovelies!

 

[picklestheduck]

Hi there! No runs but been vomiting. Guess it is getting better. However I need surgery on my vocal cord box but still not clear from the cardio side. Next week have another test being done. Hate them because can barely eat or drink anything for 48hrs.
Itty-bitty still trying to fill those lungs and hack a crow but not yet. It is hilarious to hear him try,poor funny guy. The others were not as bad as him. Then, he is the smallest of them all exchis aunt Baby'mama who is also a bantam. Pitbull is super happy with Lupita and Jlo. He is so adorable and sweet. I think that he wants to lay eggs. He can sit for hours on the nesting box whether the girls are going to lay or not. He gets comfy and cares for nothing in the world,lol And he is such a handsome stud!
Missed the last farmers market to set up my booth. Also collected everything from the Forrest that grew in the garden. I am back to square 0. The grass and weed came through the black thing,that had straw and covered with cardboard boxes. I got some serious weeds,lol

Sally, the Egyptian walking onions were not onions but garlic. Huge bulbs of garlic. Got not decent potatoes on this last batch. Lots of tiny ones. Tomatoes are all like cherry tomatoes. Tomorrow hope to start processing them. Will make sauce for sure and a good part for spaghetti sauce. Peppers never grew up. Just small peppers even though I planted bell peppers. Not many sweet peas nor beans but i used them on a beans soup with a bit of chicken and it was really good. Tired of crocheting and making amigurumi. Need to get some sleep. Later lovelies!
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Glad you are slowly getting better, hoping you continue to feel better quickly! Holy cow that’s a lot of tomatoes!!

 

[Sally PB]

Sally, the Egyptian walking onions were not onions but garlic. Huge bulbs of garlic.

I gave you some garlic cloves too. They get planted about the same time in the fall. My garlic was HUGE this year too. The biggest harvest I've ever gotten.

I got a lot of tomatoes too. I would have had waaaay too many, but on a lot of them --most?-- there was sunscald, which then started to rot. So about half of each tomato went in the scrap bucket. I still canned nearly 50 quarts, and made about 20 pints of hubby's blowtorch level salsa. I had enough green tomatoes to make myself about 10 pints of wimply green salsa, and I have enough to make another 10 pints, I think.

 

[CedarLane]

I gave you some garlic cloves too. They get planted about the same time in the fall. My garlic was HUGE this year too. The biggest harvest I've ever gotten.

I got a lot of tomatoes too. I would have had waaaay too many, but on a lot of them --most?-- there was sunscald, which then started to rot. So about half of each tomato went in the scrap bucket. I still canned nearly 50 quarts, and made about 20 pints of hubby's blowtorch level salsa. I had enough green tomatoes to make myself about 10 pints of wimply green salsa, and I have enough to make another 10 pints, I think.

We had tomatoes in two sections of our garden: the main garden and our daughter's section. The tomatoes is my garden didn't amount to much at all. We got very few tomatoes, despite having 5 different varieties planted. They started to blight shortly after transplanting into garden.
My daughters tomatoes were abundant. Unfortunately, most of her tomatoes had sunscald. They were mis-labled at the green house. They were supposed to be a grape tomato but were too big to be grape tomatoes (about 2-3 times too large). They are more like a mini roma. Because they are so small already, it means a lot of trimming to remove the sunscald parts to use, but they made nice juice and salsa. I'm assuming they'll make nice spaghetti and pizza sauce too. However, they are time consuming, but since they are all we have I'm using them. My daughter was planning to sell them at a roadside stand but so few didn't have sunscald that she wasn't able to sell very many of them.
I'd be really curious to know what kind of tomato they really are because (other than the sunscald issue) we really liked them. Was the sunscald related to the blight issue that affected our tomatoes? I've heard it sunscald can be caused by lack of foilage, but I don't think that was the problem as they always looked very healthy.