If you can't sell all of your seedlings, let me know and I'll ask my network. A lot of people are REALLY excited about a Farmer's Market that offers actual local produce.
The bad news is our truck broke down...
Funny... Our truck broke down too. We had it all loaded with stuff to haul over to the Farmer's market but it wouldn't start. Steve went and got a new battery but that wasn't it. We'll try the starter next.
Most of the seedlings did sell. I have some lettuce and spinach starts left but the tomatoes, eggplants, melons etc... went fast. The romaine lettuce went as well and about half of the other lettuces and spinach varieties were sold too. I was selling them for really cheap though. Just trying to use up all the seed so it didn't go to waste. I have a lot more tomatoes to divide though and some other stuff. I thought I'd have plenty of leeks too but it looks like I have enough for our family only. We use a lot of leeks due to my onion allergy and the seeds were left over from last year so only about half of them sprouted.
What are your friends looking for specifically? What I have a lot left of is the Chocolate cherry tomato plants. I didn't get around to dividing them up so there are lots of them plus I may have a few extra of the Reisentraube yellow tomatoes. Both of them grow well without a lot of fuss and are delicious tomatoes. I'll be starting a lot of the normal Beefsteak like tomatoes soon. They mature a little faster than some of these Heirloom varieties so I start them a little later. They pop up in just a few days to a week so they will be ready to plant in 4 to 8 weeks.
Anyone that gardens up here keeps them protected until the middle of June though. We've had some late freezes in June for a few years now.
As for the wind, let's put it this way: I'm really wishing I had a wind turbine generator right now!
I can relate to that!
Sorry I havent been back in so long. I have Banties-mostly mixed breed but a few PB. My Fav is a frizzle cochin. Meralee
I just adore my frizzled cochin girl.
I love frizzle cochins! Someday, I'll have a frizzle cochin.
You want me to try and save you one? Well maybe the ducks are enough to concentrate on for the next month or so.
1,771 pages of Nevadans!
I love that the chat is about the wind; my man was also lamenting that we don't have wind turbines set up yet! We moved her in September, and we are slowly 'green' ing our lifestyle. He's a mechanic, so the motors and mechanical projects are his favorites. He's making our coop this weekend! Luckily we have a big garage, or I'm certain the wind would have ruined all of our plans.
Nice to meet everyone!
Hi DarlingMommy! Welcome to the Nevada Thread!
Fun!! Wish I had found this thread earlier! I'm in lil' old Dayton NV. It's awesome to see so many of the chicken obsessed near me... I caught chicken flu after I got out of the navy a couple years and there is no going back. My heart belongs to the imported English Orpingtons... I also have peafowl. Anyway... HI!
Hi Christabelle! Welcome to the Nevada Thread!
Just stopped in to say hi. "HI!"
I wish some of you were close that want o hatch, cause I have dozens of eggs and nowhere to put them. I've given 2 dozen to each of my nextdoor neighbors and have orders still to fill for the Marans, but from no eggs to 3 dozen a day!! Gonna have a lot of hard boiled eggs for easter. To bad I only get white eggs from 5 birds! But Makayla and Elayjah should have enough to color.
They're
coloring eggs? I had folks at the Farmers Market buying my eggs for Easter because they were already a rainbow of colors that they didn't have to dye!
I know you have most of the same colors I have.
And plenty of others they
don't have to color!
That's for sure!
I need to refresh my flock. I only have 3 left out of the original 10 I got three years ago. Guess I'll be heading to the feed store soon!
I have 3 hatches coming up. 1st one is due in 2 days then two more by the 3rd of April. I have EEs, Lav/black split Orps (mix of American and English lines but that describes almost all Orps from breeders these days. These girls are much bigger than hatchery Orps though. I also have blue cochins that should be half frizzled but not many of those are in there and, of course, marans (FBCMs only).
Are you talking about me, Seth? or Lacy Blues? (I've got a Wheaton and a Blue Wheaton roo,)
Missy!! We canned for the first time. My mom got some blueberries, and we made two batches of blueberry jam. The first one was perfect, the second was a little runny. It all tastes amazing though!! and its all natural. It's an exciting milestone for us, I thought I'd share it with you.
Darn! I am looking for a Wheaten Ameraucana roo myself.
Yum Yum! Loooove blueberry jam!
It's been FOREVER, but I am ready to rejoin y'all! I had given my flock to a girlfriend last summer when work got a bit overwhelming, but things have changed for the better and now I'm on the (much happier) path to good old suburban homesteading (also considering homeschooling ...but that's another beast entirely)!
Goals at the present: refill the coop with a half dozen chooks, invest in a meat rabbit trio, and cobble together a mini hoop house for the backyard. We're only on a third of an acre, but I'm determined to utilize every square foot of it!
So, everyone...if you've got any hatching eggs/chicks or bunnies that you are looking to part with in the Reno area, send me a PM
. Otherwise, I will chat with you all soon. I've got lots of reading to do to catch up!
I have a hatch in the bator right now that is ready to pop. About half of them are spoken for but I should have extras. Then I have 2 more hatches due within a few days of them (the last one due April 3rd). Won't be hatching for a month after that cause I'm hatching ducks for a friend.
See my post to Ron above for the varieties I should have.
BTW these Orp girls are soooo friendly! I don't have any aggressive birds left in the flock but the marans and the ameraucanas are still shy birds. They do come running when I am filling feeders/waterers or have treats but they stay out of my way if I show up empty handed.
