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[cathiesue]

What do you all use to cut hardware cloth? I've got some tin snips but they leave a huge nub and I'm bleeding all over. What do i look for in the hardware store that will give a nice clean close cut? Thanks!

 

[jcatblum]

I know this spring Elwood was talking about castor beans & lots of interest spiked. Was just reading on garden web that someone felt certain the castor beans were wiping out there grasshoppers. I didn't plant any this yr, because of my curious goats. Next yr I will embrace castor beans & hope for the best!
Kids were watching part of the opening cerominy -- I think it is a bit much!

 

[erinszoo]

Anybody going to be watching the Opening Ceremonies tonight?

WE are. Love the Olympics and I used to live in London so it's a must in our house. Two of our bantams are watching with us.

Ate my first cantaloupe from my saved seed from last year and it was awesome. It is a chartenris (sp) french melon, small just 2 servings, I'll be saving seed from it again.

Ate our first melon last night. It was tiny called a Rich Sweetness. I got the seed at Baker Creek Seed. Here's a pic. I'll be saving seed for next year from it too. It was a little smaller than a baseball and white inside. I love Chanteris(sp) melons too but I've never been able to get any to produce for me. Do you grow them in rich soil or what?

What do you all use to cut hardware cloth? I've got some tin snips but they leave a huge nub and I'm bleeding all over. What do i look for in the hardware store that will give a nice clean close cut? Thanks!

My hubby uses a grinder or dremmel tool to cut it. You can find grinding wheels for a drill. Be careful please!

Here's a pic of the fun we had last night. A water main busted around 10:00 pm and proceeded to send fountains out of the street. At 8:30 this morning they still hadn't done anything about it. Sigh. But it is finally fixed.

 

[Kassaundra]

I wish my soil was rich and nice. It is better then it was, I add to it every year, but no it is not anything special. I have always given it a trellis since the fruit is so small and I try to give it some afternoon shade.

I'm saving seed anyway so if you want to give it a try I would send you some.

 

[erinszoo]

So I have to say "hi" to a lot of people probably today. We left home this morning at 8:30 am to pick up our daughter at church camp and drove through the following places:
Pond Creek, Enid, Waukomis, Bison, Hennessey, Dover, Kingfisher, Okarche, El Reno, Cherokee, Geary, Hitchcock, Watonga, Okeene, Orlando, and Perry - making it home at 5:30 this evening. I waved as I went through every town cause I didn't want to leave anyone out.

I came home and did this

. I was soooooo tired. Then I went out and tried the water treatment on my little bantam roo. We tried the feeding out of our hand technique but he just kept biting us. We think we let it go too long. He doesn't like getting a squirt with water though and was much better behaved with the other bantams tonight. He still tried to attack a turkey though. Ha. He's almost small enough they could eat him in one bite and he still charges them. Sigh.

 

[erinszoo]

I wish my soil was rich and nice. It is better then it was, I add to it every year, but no it is not anything special. I have always given it a trellis since the fruit is so small and I try to give it some afternoon shade.

I'm saving seed anyway so if you want to give it a try I would send you some.

Maybe that's my problem, maybe I'm making it too rich. It's funny, this year the stuff that has done the best has been the odd fruits and vegies I got just to try and the stuff that got planted in soil that we only added to some or not at all. Sigh. I would love to have some seed. I'll PM you my addy. Thanks!

 

[Buster52]

I don't want to jinx myself, but we are working out the details of picking up a large purchase tomorrow. Until it has arrived here I don't consider it a done deal. I will be excited to share the experience with everyone! In the AM we are going to set up at Lawton Farmers Market. Don't have much to take, but I knew it was more than we would sell in Anadarko & the kids LOVE Lawton market. Since we lived in town there for 12 yrs they get to see lots of people they know. Think we are going to do 1 more wk of market then take a break. Garden is slowing down & kids want some time to hang out at the water park & with their friends before school starts back.

Well, dang. Just when we take a break you show up, and when we plan to go back you take a break. Tell Ronny and all hi for us. We have to pick up our processing equipment tomorrow morning in Norman, so we won't be able to make it, and next week I work, so we won't be back till the second week of August.

And you can't leave us hanging like that! What is this large purchase you are picking up??

Going to try to make it to Blanchard tomorrow night. I'll bring some sacks for Mike, but I'm pretty much done buying for a while.

Except feed.

 

[mjgigax]

So I have to say "hi" to a lot of people probably today. We left home this morning at 8:30 am to pick up our daughter at church camp and drove through the following places:
Pond Creek, Enid, Waukomis, Bison, Hennessey, Dover, Kingfisher, Okarche, El Reno, Cherokee, Geary, Hitchcock, Watonga, Okeene, Orlando, and Perry - making it home at 5:30 this evening. I waved as I went through every town cause I didn't want to leave anyone out.

I came home and did this

. I was soooooo tired. Then I went out and tried the water treatment on my little bantam roo. We tried the feeding out of our hand technique but he just kept biting us. We think we let it go too long. He doesn't like getting a squirt with water though and was much better behaved with the other bantams tonight. He still tried to attack a turkey though. Ha. He's almost small enough they could eat him in one bite and he still charges them. Sigh.

I gave a Mille Fleur Cochin pair to my Cousin-in-law to add to her flock. The roo is nice to people he runs the Orpington rooster away from the girls and he chases the Emu!

 

[nnbreeder]

So I have to say "hi" to a lot of people probably today. We left home this morning at 8:30 am to pick up our daughter at church camp and drove through the following places:
Pond Creek, Enid, Waukomis, Bison, Hennessey, Dover, Kingfisher, Okarche, El Reno, Cherokee, Geary, Hitchcock, Watonga, Okeene, Orlando, and Perry - making it home at 5:30 this evening. I waved as I went through every town cause I didn't want to leave anyone out.

I came home and did this

. I was soooooo tired. Then I went out and tried the water treatment on my little bantam roo. We tried the feeding out of our hand technique but he just kept biting us. We think we let it go too long. He doesn't like getting a squirt with water though and was much better behaved with the other bantams tonight. He still tried to attack a turkey though. Ha. He's almost small enough they could eat him in one bite and he still charges them. Sigh.

Made quite the trip! I work about 1/2 mile N of Kingfisher along 81. There are various trailers sittng around, some for sale and some to fix. Next time you are not pressed for time stop in.

 

[NanaKat]

What do you all use to cut hardware cloth? I've got some tin snips but they leave a huge nub and I'm bleeding all over. What do i look for in the hardware store that will give a nice clean close cut? Thanks!

I use a pair of wire cutters and then use a pair of needle nose pliers to bend the cut end back into a scallop (for lack of a better way to describe it) so that the point is not going to grab me.