***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[okiegirl]

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Oh Monty, I loved chit-chatting with you. I actually could stayed longer if I wasn't worried about the girls getting too hot.

They are doing fine, but they don't want to go in the coop. My other three were bossing them around a bit, but nothing bad. The new girls are sleeping outside on the roosts and on top of the coop. question: will they eventually decide to go in the coop? I don't like them just sleeping outside.

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Kass ,have you ever tried the vining okra? Someone gave me some seed and my neighbor also gave me some so I palnted it. Its finally putting on after hundreds of male blooms. We cooked some yesterday,its real sweet and not a lot like okra! Not bad ,it did absorb a lot of oil and that eneded up making me sick I beleive. I was amased that the very hard outer skin is tender when cooked. Its so wierds looking I will proably just grow it because!lol.And its not posinous or hallucenigenic(I don't think!lol) Reme,ber tomatoes were once thought to be posinous!lol

 

[michaeldaugherty]

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Seen some on the Trav.Chan.Biz.food's Andrew was in ICe land they wer showing the pony's an sheep an the rare chicken's all from ther..

 

[Buckguy20]

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Okla, hope I never get on your bad side, you grow the most toxic plant substance on earth, and a toxic, deadly hallucinagen!!!!

Thanks for the offer, they are pretty, but invasive and poisonous, so I think I'll pass on that one.



Just have to say I ate okra tonight!!!!!!

I harvested baby, tiny okra from my plants, like just over 1 inch long, pan seared them whole w/ butter, garlic and pepper. They may not have been my absolute favorite veggie ever, but they definately were good enough to eat again.

Only one way to eat okra thats any good. Fried!

 

[Buckguy20]

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Oh Monty, I loved chit-chatting with you. I actually could stayed longer if I wasn't worried about the girls getting too hot.

They are doing fine, but they don't want to go in the coop. My other three were bossing them around a bit, but nothing bad. The new girls are sleeping outside on the roosts and on top of the coop. question: will they eventually decide to go in the coop? I don't like them just sleeping outside.

You will probably need to keep them inside for awhile until they get into the habit of where they need to be.
If they get used to being outside, they won't want to go in
side until the weather gets nasty. Some times not even then.

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

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Wayne does that put on a seed pod thats round and has a lot of kinda sharp spikes on it? It looks like Jimson weed.

 

[Kassaundra]

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I'm confused the datura is that what you are calling vining okra? And you ate it, correct? If so I'll have to do a little more research on the poisonous aspect. The datura is a nightshade. The seedpods of the datura were said to be the more poisonous parts of the plant, are you sure it was the oil that made you sick and not the pod?

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

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I'm confused the datura is that what you are calling vining okra? And you ate it, correct? If so I'll have to do a little more research on the poisonous aspect. The datura is a nightshade. The seedpods of the datura were said to be the more poisonous parts of the plant, are you sure it was the oil that made you sick and not the pod?

That still looks Jimson weed to me, it has several other names moon flower, night blooming something I don't remember, but it's a growing problem with teenagers eating the seeds to get high hallucenigenic and toxic it sends a lot of people to the ER cause you can never tell how much your ingesting as the levels of what makes you sick or gets you high change from plant to plant

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

I googled it it is the same plant no parts are really edible this is from Wikipedia:

Datura stramonium, known by the common names jimson weed, devil's trumpet, devil's weed, thorn apple, tolguacha, Jamestown weed, stinkweed, locoweed, datura, pricklyburr, devil's cucumber, hell's bells, moonflower[1] and, in South Africa, malpitte and mad seeds, is a common weed in the Solanaceae (nightshade) family.

It is an erect annual herb forming a bush up to 3–5 ft (1–1.5 m) tall.[2] The leaves are soft, irregularly undulate, and toothed. The fragrant flowers are trumpet-shaped, white to creamy or violet, and 2.5 to 3.5 in. long. They rarely open completely. The egg-shaped seed capsule is walnut-sized and either covered with spines or bald. At maturity it splits into four chambers, each with dozens of small black seeds.

Parts of the plant, especially the seeds and leaves, are sometimes used as a hallucinogen. Due to the elevated risk of overdose in uninformed users, many hospitalizations, and some deaths, are reported from this use.

edited to say if you only got a bit sick from it you were lucky, it is a pretty plant and I grow it in flowerbeds around the base of my castor beans both of wich are toxic LOL You might question who had you eat it and see if they have insurance taken out on ya LOL Just kidding of course

 

[michaeldaugherty]

Talk to modern man he said he had alot of bird's coming to his sale sat...An alot of buyer's ..Any one going to Newcastle sale sat at the fair ground's start's at 6...
Seen the weather cant wait ....Ft,cobb fair is this week seen Butch an Ben ther wen i was a kid ,,Lot's of ride's for kid's one of the few left that still has ther own..