Michigan

[LauraSBale]

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HAPPY B-Day

Hello everyone, haven't been on here since Thursday, went to Chucks sister for the weekend with the kids and got back late Monday.
the Hub (chuck) did a great job taking care of the ducks and chickens,

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got the ducks a new pool last week and yesterday they finally got in it when they seen the yummy peas floating around.

boy those ducks love bugs, will sit out and when its just getting dusk they will just go crazy in the yard eating the bugs up its so funny to watch them.

boy this weather what is going on here

Well something is eating my tomato's and green bean plants,

in the 5 years we have been here i never had any thing eat my plants, so we gave jack are English setter a hair cut and i put all the hair around the plants hoping what ever is eating them will stop from the smell of his hair. My mother-in-law told me to get some dried blood, and put it around, but she and I are not sure where to get dried blood, would Blood meal be the same??

they were just starting to get big and have flowers, some are right down to stem..

now my yellow squash, cucumbers, onions and potato's are doing great.

 

[Anny]

Happy Birthday! Mine is coming up on the 18th.


I just went out side to check on my chickens, and found some sad news. My favorite little Delaware had died! She seemed to have gotten her head wedged between a rain gutter and the fence some how and looks like she broke her neck. Poor girl. She was one of my very first chickens, her best buddy looks lost with out her. Poor girl.


R.I.P. Libby

 

[vkulesh]

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Get that hoe out and get to work. Get one of those stirrup hoes (Home Depot has some good ones for around $16).

Then get some old straw or hay and mulch mulch mulch. Did I say mulch?

 

[vkulesh]

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I have a trick for pumpkins. Make several compost piles in fall ( horse manure plus grass clippings plus all the kitchen waist that chickens do not eat ) and let it age through the winter, then throw some seeds in there come spring. Then leave them until they are ready to be harvested.

 

[Freebie]

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Sure can be nosey...About 6 years ago, he was chasing one of the pups we had and he fell through a weak board on the deck. It broke the bone that goes from his little toe up to his ankle. So, of course, being the man that he is, he took the cast off to early and just lived with it. I am sure it did not heal correctly. Well, jump ahead to Monday, he is just walking and he must have just turned it wrong or something, and he thinks he rebroke it. He went to prompt care, but the line was so long, he checked in and waited but got tired of waiting so he left. I keep telling him he needs to go, if it is serious he may end up needing surgery.

 

[briana1975]

Why do husbands need to be so stubborn? Keep on eye on it if he doesn't get it checked out watch for red streaks running up and down from the area that was hurt. It can get a blood infection. A long time ago my husband has his foot run over by the big high-low at work and broke his foot. The doctors took forever to decide where the break was and only soft splinted it for over 2 weeks and a blood infection set in. That was almost as bad as the broken foot.
I hope it isn't broken though. And good luck.

 

[Freebie]

Well, my broody bantam has hatched one of her eggs, she still has 3 eggs left. Sure hope at least one more hatches. I plan on getting some chicks on Aug 1st. (Wow!! only one month away.) Sure hope the hatches go well

I am hoping that my DH will come with me to chickenstock. He may go to prompt care on Friday if he is still in this much pain and swelling. He drives me crazy sometimes.

 

[LoveMyChicklets]

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Get that hoe out and get to work. Get one of those stirrup hoes (Home Depot has some good ones for around $16).

Then get some old straw or hay and mulch mulch mulch. Did I say mulch?

I would love to but my back can't handle it this year. Broke 7 bones in my back falling down the basement steps in December. Still not up to par. I'm always up for volunteers though

 

[Zookeeper9000]

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Get that hoe out and get to work. Get one of those stirrup hoes (Home Depot has some good ones for around $16).

Then get some old straw or hay and mulch mulch mulch. Did I say mulch?

I would love to but my back can't handle it this year. Broke 7 bones in my back falling down the basement steps in December. Still not up to par. I'm always up for volunteers though

If you put the mulch thick enough it will kill those weeds you already have. Also you can go to a newspaper office get some old newpapers (don't used the colored flyers) and put a thick layer of paper over those weeds and then hold it down with some dirt spinkled here and there then when whole garden is done wet that paper really well. It will kill the weeds and keep them from coming back, ya might get one or two ya have to pull and that is about it.


Hope you heal soon back pain is no fun.

Welcome to the new, hello to the rest of ya.

 

[vkulesh]

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Get that hoe out and get to work. Get one of those stirrup hoes (Home Depot has some good ones for around $16).

Then get some old straw or hay and mulch mulch mulch. Did I say mulch?

I would love to but my back can't handle it this year. Broke 7 bones in my back falling down the basement steps in December. Still not up to par. I'm always up for volunteers though

hey LoveMyChicklets,

I am having a similar problem with three herniated disks - I just can't bend. Then we went to a seminar run by Elliot Coleman and the guy says: "do not bend and chop like it is wood. have a long handle on the hoe and do some ballroom dancing with it and make sure you do not step on the plants!" As funny as it sounds, it works and now I can do my 30*60 garden in 3 hours. I just make sure when planting there is enough in between the plants to do the dancing.