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[coop101]

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its in the ditch.....

here you go... of course imagine snow and ice about a foot deep, and then you can see why it was easy to get into....

 

[NanaKat]

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Pick them about 3 inches in size. Bigger than 4 inches it will be too tuff. I have a pair of garden scissors or shears-- not sure the proper name-- but they will cut through without a problem. Knife is too much work. My dad uses pocket knife for his. with the shears you can use one hand to hold your bucket & one to cut. For saving seeds-- usually when you are tired if harvesting just don't touch the plant again. The new pods will dry in place & you will have more seeds than you can use. Or use the pods for Christmas ornaments.

We wear an apron with the corners penned up so both hands are free for picking. I hold the stem with one hand and snap off the 3 inch pods with the other hand. At the end of the row, I dump my apron into a bucket. If a pod is too tough to snap it's probably too tough to cut for fried okra. I bend the pod over so it points to the ground and let it go ahead and form seed. In the fall when the plants are done....or we are done picking, we pull up the plants and snip off the dry pods. We store in a paper sack until the seed cures...then it's a matter of rolling the pods between your hands to open up the seed rows...wear gloves for this. The pods make good mulch under the bushes. Note..If you wait until a freeze hits the plants, the stalks are slimey and you have to wait until later in the winter to pull the stalks.

 

[NanaKat]

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Wayne, Any left over coffe makes great iced cofffee around here.

Would you post a picture of your Icelandic roo....pretty please!

Kass..BIL drove to Enterprise this past weekend and said it was a gorgeous green around Henrietta. Our grass in the yard is crunchy except where it's gotten watered from a hose. We have lost all but the wild roses. All the hostas have gone dormant in the shade beds...hope we haven't lost them. The daylilies are hanging in there, but the iris and cannas have been chewed up by grasshoppers. Did your row of bushes you started from your grandmother's plants begin to come out or did you lose all of them?

Our garden beds are already going to get a work over early this year. Some of the fall beds were attached by blister bugs and were eatten to the stems. So hubby decided we woud go ahead and start tractoring in the compost and letting it finish curing in place....and he is getting sand from one of the ponds and hauling it up closer to the house so we will be able to mix it with compost for back filling the beds or use it to raise some areas in the lot around the squeeze chute and loading pens.
We brought a cow and calf home from one of the leases that was limping....she got a pedicure at the vet and a shot of LA200. She was NOT happy and is blowing snot at the chickens in the pen next to her recovery pen. You don't mess with a 1300 pound Momma cow when she is upset! She is usually one that will walk up to you and eat cubes out of your hand....it's the heat!

 

[Kassaundra]

I was suprised how quickly the grass greened up w/ the couple of inches of rain we got, I actually have had to mow. Some of the bushes and trees that went brown a crunchy have new green leaves on them now, others don't. I feel lucky someone else posted about blister bugs on an Oklahoma garden forum I visit, but so far I have not had that problem to deal with. I still haven't got many fall plants in though b/c of the temps still at 100. I was looking earlier today and thinking I might try and put out a few of the cool crops in the areas shaded by some of the bigger plants. How do the brocc/cab/caul family do in shadey areas?

 

[Buckguy20]

Hello folks,
I got to meet Okiegirl this morning. She bought some hens and I know she will pamper them a lot more than I did. They are gonna love being at her place.
Unfortunatly for her she found out that I talk too much.
I was catching the chickens this morning to take to her and I heard some chicks carrying on in one of the raised pens. I looked over and there was a coon standing on his hind legs trying to figure out how to get a chick. I slipped away and came back armed.
I couldn't find the coon so I went back into the main pen to finish catching birds, and there he was just sitting in the dirt looking at the menu.
Not sure how he managed to get in the pen, but I know how he left.
Being drug out by a hind leg and offering no resistance.
Also we lost two half grown roosters yesterday to the heat. They had spilled their water (not sure how they managed that since it was wired in) and when we got home from Church one was dead and the other in bad shape.
Jared spent the afternoon trying to revive him but he died last night. They were in complete shade but not having water for five hours was too much.
Glad some folks got rain. We received the promise of four more days of 105 plus temps with a slight chance of rain.

 

[Buckguy20]

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Red sex links, production reds, cherry eggers. They have different names depending on which hatchery produced them.
They are great layers no matter what they are called.

 

[janbcoo1]

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So glad you got that predator but very sorry for you loss of the roos. Don't know why we are suffering such an incredibly hot summer, but at least we aren't shoveling snow or having to climb to our roofs to be rescued from flood waters. Maybe we are being prepared for perfect weather for the next few years to give us all a chance to recover and rebuild.

 

[Amy Farah Fowler]

Red sex links, production reds, cherry eggers. They have different names depending on which hatchery produced them.
They are great layers no matter what they are called.

Okiemoses.. now that you said that, I think they said they were cherry eggers. Is that an official breed? Could they be shown at a county fair?

Thanks!​

 

[Sooner]

No they aren't an offical breed but one jarvis may know if you can show it in an "all other class".

 

[Amy Farah Fowler]

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That would be cool!

Thanks

Jarvis?? Any comment?