Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Elliemae 77]

Considering recent events I am also tempted to set one more batch of eggs. Will they be big enough by winter to survive the cold?

Oops! Reposted the same question....sorry

 

[ChicwannaB]

That tractor is ADORABLE!

thanks...mostly scraps....only new stuff on it are the hinges, 2 sets, hook & eye, and the handle. all the wood was salvaged.

 

[ChicwannaB]

ChicwannaB,

You do such incredible work!!! I'm sad that I didn't see these before! They are really nice.

Especially for people that just want a few hens for eggs.

thank you very much Tim, this one was alot of work, mostly for my brain, I don't do angles well at all. took alot of thinking and sometimes undoing and redoing...

...mostly from scrap wood tho. only the hardware is new, and the chicken wire of course.

 

[Farmerboy16]

I do have one pumpkin plant that is taking over the yard. It has about 10 giant pumpkins growing and it is making more!  How did that happen?  

And today I got my second tomato. It was a perfect cherry tomato and the only one on the scraggly tomato plant!    

When you are done with the pumpkins, I want them! I am starting to look around for pumpkins and squash to feed the livestock in the winter months.

[COLOR=800080]That's generally not over watering but blossom end rot which is a calcium deficiency. Though I suppose over watering could wash the calcium out of the soil... but I am not a a soil expert.[/COLOR]

I was thinking overwatering because the tomato I did get was brown and mushy on the bottom. It's not that I don't appreciate where I am at now - my life has certainly been much darker - I make every effort to remember how swiftly this stage in my life will pass, and concentrate on enjoying the things that matter, but that doesn't always make it easy.  Thanks, CG. 

I solved the blossom end rot by putting eggshells and unhatched eggs in the holes before planting Tomato plants in the holes. I have not seen any blossom end rots for years now.

Fuzzy- Yep, Andy's Discount Appliance.

  I think DH and i met your family, he was super nice!  We were really bummed when he discontinued the food part. Got some of our coolest spices there! And the only lemon juice in a bottle that i have ever liked when  i tried it for making homemade lemonaid . The other brands just ain't right............I keep trying to point people over there, he was a truly honest person and i would trust anything he had for sale.

I may have met you too! But didn't know who you are. But my dad did not just discontinue food part, he was force too, for the superstores were having food pricing wars and it was impossible to compete. So it was neither change products or close down and find a way to provide his large family. We are doing well now, so thank God.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Darn the food wars!
I am not a big fan of that grocery store chain, my uncle worked for one of them his whole life, and when he got diabeties and almost lost his foot, they cut his hours to less than the kids got. Not enough to live on. He was so skinny when he died. I can't say that they killed him, but it certainly was a contributing factor. Someone in the big office probably thought he would just get another job, problem was he was a true hermit and that was all he knew...... so he suffered in silence. He really NEEDED the insurance and they just demoted and cut it, likely so as not to have to pay all the extras. Shameful.

 

[tdhenson86]

thank you very much Tim, this one was alot of work, mostly for my brain, I don't do angles well at all. took alot of thinking and sometimes undoing and redoing...

...mostly from scrap wood tho. only the hardware is new, and the chicken wire of course.

Well, either way, it looks beautiful! Great work!!!

 

[1muttsfan]

Silly, the colors in those black feathers are amazing.

My D'Uccle trio seem tiny to me - such darling little things. They are housed with bantam Cochins and silkies, so hopefully will winter well.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

Hi! Popping in for the day!
Has anyone ever seen one of these?



I'm a fungi!



^The new baby... I have named her Pate!!


^Hunan

Marsala



Who needs a Barred Rock roo?




^Quesadilla


^Noodle

^ Daddy Nugget teaching Peking and Shawarma the proper way to dust bathe...
Aparently you must lay on your side and kick wildly until you spin in a circle.

 

[tdhenson86]

Hi! Popping in for the day!
Has anyone ever seen one of these?



I'm a fungi!



^The new baby... I have named her Pate!!


^Hunan

Marsala



Who needs a Barred Rock roo?




^Quesadilla


^Noodle

^ Daddy Nugget teaching Peking and Shawarma the proper way to dust bathe...
Aparently you must lay on your side and kick wildly until you spin in a circle.

That's a puffball mushroom!!! I'm not sure what their technical name is, but I grew up with them. As a kid, they are TONS of fun!!! When it gets fully mature, it will turn brown and crunchy. If you stomp on it, it will send a cloud of spores out that look like a big cloud of dust...

 

[Farmerboy16]

Our garden-

Well the tomatoes are doing great. I am glad, for they are my favorite produce and I will not be a happy gardener if they did not do well, plus we can about 200 qts of them every year, so we depend on the tomatoes to do well.

Beans- very good, but the pumpkin volunteers are taking over the bean patch. We can about 120 qts per year. Got almost 50 now.

Cucumbers- They died, so nothing from them.

Summer squash- got some squash, but the squash bugs killed all the plants.

Corn- Not all the seeds spouted, but the rest are doing well, had some fresh corn for supper. We freeze some of them.

Weeds- Lots of them, and very tall. But the cows and the hogs like them, so I pull them up for them.

Sunflowers- I planted lots of them, but a few came up, but happy with the flowers. Some of the plants are about 8 to 10 feet tall.

I coun't resist adding another picture of Maybelle-

She likes to sit of this mound of dirt in the pen next to the garden.