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[Lacy Blues]

That's what always happens to me with my tomatoes - the plants get huge but I never get any fruit, at least not until a few days before the first frost kills them all off!

From what I understand Ron, huge plants with low yield means you have too much nitrogen.

http://www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/Tomato/nutri/nitro.html

 

[americanvalkyrie]

That's what always happens to me with my tomatoes - the plants get huge but I never get any fruit, at least not until a few days before the first frost kills them all off!

Sounds like you need less nitrogen about mid to late June, and more potassium. Fireplace ashes are a good source.

A lot of people think Miracle Gro is the ultimate for gardens. It's Miracle GRO = high in nitrogen. So the plants grow and grow and grow... but it's potassium that stimulates blossom production.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Wow, does Sahara do all of that by herself? I'm very impressed!

My Mute button finger is really sore - it's been getting quite a workout recently!

They mostly call my house during the day while I'm at work, so I just have a lot of messages on my machine to delete. Like Sunny, I'm in the boonies so no one comes ringing the bell for anything, not even Halloween! The only time anyone comes up to my door that I don't know, it's UPS or FedEx.

LOL another of your late night posts (for the rest of you, we were laughing about her late night posts Saturday when Sunny and Steve visited).

I love mute. What did we do before they had mute buttons? I know we got up and changed the channel. Actually, I'm showing my age now, I don't remember commercials being so obnoxious when I was a pup. There were lines that nobody dared to cross back then. Not sure what happened between now and then but there weren't as many commercials and they were pretty benign by comparison. I remember being shocked by the first commercial that dared to accuse people of having bad breath! Then dandruff! It was rude but I guess it didn't bother folks enough to protest and now look what's happened. OK I'll shut up now.

Yes living in the boonies does have it's advantages! Just getting rid of solicitors has been a huge bonus! Although I now know the UPS, the Fedex and my postal carrier. hee hee

Hey! Maybe somebody is interested in what I'm doing at 2 in the morning! Oh never mind. Even I get that nobody's likely to be interested in my cookie baking supplies.

11 am for lunch works fine for me. They must have broccoli soup or I will be one dissatisfied customer! not really, because they have good food anyway.

I'll pout it they don't have it! It won't do any good but I'll still pout. lol I had the grilled chicken salad when we went and it was very good.

I know. that's what I tell her. with my eggs, you know exactly where the chickens live, what they're eating, etc. and the eggs are super duper fresh. oh well.
Hear! Hear! Can't wait for the end of phone calls and ads. I just watched the local news one day last week and every single ad was political. not one other ad. crazy!
we have been unplugging our phone every night and i love caller id. the budget would have to get quite a bit tighter before I'll give that up.
that extra cell phone move was brilliant. I'll have to remember that.

IDK about your friend. It makes no sense but I know a few like her.

Yes the phone has come in handy for quite a few things. I route all sales calls through that phone too. Well worth the extra $9.99 a month. It also comes in handy when I can't find my phone and no one else is home to call it (no land line here).

Once the contract is up we may cancel it but I'll be sad to see it go if we do.

And I agree, caller ID is a must!

plus, they are locked in tiny cages where the can barely move, the birds above poop on them. They have barely any feathers, they just have miserable lives. And when they have their first birthday, they are slaughtered and tossed into the landfill.

The creepiest video I ever saw was of a "cage free" farm. There were a thousand or so birds running around this large room with no roosts or anything and they were trampling each other! The workers were moving through the building with a large metal hook and fishing the dead chickens out from the bottom of the pile and tossing them in a garbage cart. There were more than a dozen dead chickens in the cart and the workers were only a quarter of the way across the room. The workers all had these heavy duty breathing masks on because the fumes were so toxic. It was horrible!!! Anyone that thinks they are doing the right thing by buying "cage free" eggs is terribly wrong.

That's what always happens to me with my tomatoes - the plants get huge but I never get any fruit, at least not until a few days before the first frost kills them all off!

Hahaha! That was me this year but it was my fault for waiting too long to move them outside.

Actually they usually end up in pet food at that point. Nothing is ever wasted!

Yummy! lol

 

[2seth2]

They actually aren't through in landfills they are made into dog food and they keep chicken for over 1 year they molt the chickens once and then when it comes time to molt them a second time they either turn them to dog food or let them go to a 3rd molt. The only chickens that would go into a landfills are sick chickens. and fun fact the difference in diets from west coast to east coast makes egg yolks on the east coast darker and more orange.

 

[2seth2]

My cochin layed her egg from the roost

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Haha! I hope she never sees the conditions of those commercial egg ranches! She'll never eat eggs again!!!

When our new neighbors moved in next door, we got to know them over the fence. Actually, it was the boyfriend's friend who was the really friendly one and initiated the conversations. To kick everything off to a good start, we gave a dozen eggs to the friend and boyfriend. The boyfriend brings them in and says, "Look, we got fresh eggs!" His girlfriend said, "Don't touch those. You don't know where those have been!" The boyfriend and friend ate them all, saying, "Yeah they've been next door. Where have YOUR eggs been?"

So they're cool neighbors, but I haven't brought eggs over to them again. They get jam.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

My cochin layed her egg from the roost

 

[2seth2]

i am not saying comericail eggs taste better our eggs our wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy tastier!

and do you know how to stop her from laying there

 

[americanvalkyrie]

i am not saying comericail eggs taste better our eggs our wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy tastier!

and do you know how to stop her from laying there

It's her first couple of eggs. She'll probably get the hang of the nesting box soon.

 

[SunnyDawn]

When our new neighbors moved in next door, we got to know them over the fence. Actually, it was the boyfriend's friend who was the really friendly one and initiated the conversations. To kick everything off to a good start, we gave a dozen eggs to the friend and boyfriend. The boyfriend brings them in and says, "Look, we got fresh eggs!" His girlfriend said, "Don't touch those. You don't know where those have been!" The boyfriend and friend ate them all, saying, "Yeah they've been next door. Where have YOUR eggs been?"

So they're cool neighbors, but I haven't brought eggs over to them again. They get jam.

Hahaha!!! She doesn't deserve jam either. I think you should bring all her jam over here to me.