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[jcatblum]

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Never heard of such a thing, what happens to them?

My dehydrator is full of hot peppers right now.

They turn out like the ones in the kids cereal box. I use the mini ones after 10 min in the dehydrator it smells like s'mores. I open the lid & take a few out-- they are slightly gooey. Way yummy. But dh doesn't like real marshmallows just the dried ones. So about 5 hours in my dehydrator they are to dh liking. I can throw them in granola & he is a happy camper! Also work in hot chocolate.

 

[nnbreeder]

There is a big herd of Buffalo S. of Garden City Ks. and every year they have an auction of surplus stock. A few of the upper scale places in Garden would by some to butcher and that is when we got started eating it.

There was a guy in town that was kin to one of the people that owned a restraunt and he would strip it and dry it, no spices or nothing and that jerky was better then the spiced up beef jerky. I have loved it ever since.

Jumbo Foods up in Enid carried ground Buffalo. As you know nearly no fat and it's very healthy meat.

 

[GotGame]

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Thanks wayne, i enjoy all the colors they come in, but also their hardiness, their attitudes and their broodiness and laying ability. Mine are actually small compared to most, i had a stag here that at ten months weighed nine pounds, and wasnt done growing.

 

[jcatblum]

Sunday I used ground bison for my meatloaf. Much better than using ground beef if you are cooking somehing that you don't want soaked in grease. A while back the commissary had the bison $3.50 a lb so I stocked up--- it is almost all gone now-- think last time I looked it was close to $8 lb

 

[michaeldaugherty]

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Bison meatloaf that sound's great i will have to try it some time ..My sis get's Bison in a can from her tribe ..

 

[Kassaundra]

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Never heard of such a thing, what happens to them?

My dehydrator is full of hot peppers right now.

They turn out like the ones in the kids cereal box. I use the mini ones after 10 min in the dehydrator it smells like s'mores. I open the lid & take a few out-- they are slightly gooey. Way yummy. But dh doesn't like real marshmallows just the dried ones. So about 5 hours in my dehydrator they are to dh liking. I can throw them in granola & he is a happy camper! Also work in hot chocolate.

There is only one way I like marshmallows. Made into fluff and used in a fluffer nutter sandwich.

 

[poultryand bees]

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According to one book I read, the chickens get some B vitamins from the unprocessed grain in the manure that they can't get from eating grain that hasn't gone through the horse/cow first. I like the chickens scratching in the horse droppings because that breaks up the droppings, which makes the fertilizer easier to absorb into the pasture.

 

[NanaKat]

Caught up on all the conversations tonight...wow!
Love the photos of birds and coops.

Kass...have planted sugar snap peas, and a variety named Arrow In the raised beds we plant a row on each side of a cattle panel..about 9 inches between the rows....leaves plenty f room on each side of the 4 foot wide bed for a row of carrots or beets. I soak the seeds overnight in buttermilk...acts like an innoculate and swells the seeds so the sprout quicker. We lengthen the harvest by planting a week apart over several weeks. For green beans..try Contender. When they slow down, side dress with compost.Best carrots for our area are Nantes and Danvers half long.
The odd summer we have had wrecked havoc on our summer garden. We are usually carting out tomatoes by the 5 gallon bucketsfull...this year we got less than a 3 gallon bucket all season.

 

[Kassaundra]

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I didn't get my sugar pod peas in for a spring planting, but have attempted a fall planting, they are alive and bearing, but not enough to get much to eat, so I was just letting them go to seed to replant in the spring (they weren't hybrids). I expected more of a harvest from the southern peas though since I've always heard how much they like hot and summer, but they weren't very impressed w/ the summer and just hung in until the weather cooled before they started doing much of anything w/ them too I'll basically recoop my seed, the adzuki beans I planted are the same, they have been growing all season and they obviously didn't like their growing conditions, the plants stayed very small and they are/have been bearing but not well, they too were suppose to love the heat and summer. My beans (green, yellow, dragon, purple etc...) I had a host of problems with, from heat, to rabbits, to who knows what. The last planting did better then any others this year, they were growing well and just started blooming about 1 week ago, I planted two varieties of yellow, the one got killed on that one cold night, the other is still going and blooming, but I seriously doubt I'll have time enough to get much of anything from them, certainly not any seed at all.

Do they really enhance the soil much, or is that dramatically overstated or an "old wives tale"?

 

[upcdayz]

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I've never tried soaking in buttermilk before but may give that a try next spring. Some years I have staggered the planting over several weeks like you do, just depends on what else I'm planting that year and if I have enough room to do that. I do side dress with compost as well. That seems to give the plants an extra boost when they're running out of steam. I use raised beds since the soil here isn't really soil, mostly hard clay. Every two or three years I'll buy a truck load of topsoil/compost mixture to add to the existing soil and stay away from anything that's been enhanced with chemical fertilizers. So far I've had good success with that strategy but just haven't been able to get many decent tomatoes. It seems like the heat kills them off faster than I can water them.