***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[fairwindminishetland]

Yes, mint and it's whole family is very invasive, be selective about where you put it, but it makes awesome tea, and is great in salad.

Where can you get good mint?

 

[NanaKat]

Where can you get good mint?

Lowe's carries both spearmint and peppermint in 4 " potts in the herb section.

 

[NanaKat]

I have brocolli, will have to ask Carl about the cabbage. I know the asparagus will need a permanent bed. Im working on it. Hoping to take next weekend looking for more lumber. Going to get a little bit of a late start planting outside this year, but it will be worth it.

Definitely...and you can always work a fall garden in. Okra goes in in late may and June. Your squashes can be succession planted just like corn.

 

[Kassaundra]

Lowe's carries both spearmint and peppermint in 4 " potts in the herb section.

 

[bird/wire]

Ya'll I am at least 10 pages behind....chicks are taking all my extra time. Not to mention I might have just smashed part of my brooder with an epic pratfall necessitating some emergency duct tape repair work. I am lucky chicks are quick or I might have smushed some...


Just butting in to say to the fellas working on the mobile chicken processing unit....look into an induction cooktop....I mean as long as you are looking for grant money you might as well throw a little expensive high technology in there....I personally dream of outdoor jam canning with an induction cooktop...

We are also coming to POOPS, me plus 2 for a total of 3.

Gah and also I have planted nothing outside recently and I am really getting the gardening jones reading all ya'll talking about what you are getting planted.....family just returned from shopping trip, must go and assist. I'll try and catch up with you all in a while.

Kelly

 

[Poco Pollo]

Coral I didn't take a pic of it (oops). Last night there was a ceramic hand made & painted guinea hen. Very good looking IMO. DD wanted it but I stopped bidding @$13. It was maybe 6-8 inches tall. Have you ever seen anything similar? I tried to google for a guinea hen mold & didn't come up with much. If the mold could be found to cast a few we would be very interested.

If you google Herend you will find several styles of ceramic guinea hens. They are hard to find. The least expensive I've ever seen was in the mid $40s. I've seen others for sale as high as $300.00. They are made of porcelain, and they are now considered rare.

La Pintade is another name to google. The style is more imaginative, and they come in a wide range of colors. You can get them in small, medium, or large. They range in price from about $125 all the way up to $200.00.

I'm not sure what you saw. If the guinea you bid on looked like the pictures above, it was probably a Herend.

 

[Tony O]

Isn't mint pervasive? Was it someone on here or my grandmother that told me that?


I really like my mint,

so I'm not going to try talking you out of planting mint, but there are a few things a beginner with mint should know.

Mint can be very invasive. It needs a place where it can grow to it's potential without taking over where it isn't wanted. As an example, I have a small bed of choc mint growing in the edge of some lawn. When I mow, it smells like peppermint pattys, starting from about 5 feet out from the mint bed. I love the aroma,

but all mints need to be contained or have their own space. Some mints can grow wild and become your worst night mare.

Just sayin

BTW, if you think you can control where it can grow by planting it in a pot, you can't. Any part growing over the edge can root and get away from you before know it. Mint will also send out runners over the edge, as well as through the drain holes into the dirt. They can go a long way underground and establish themselves several feet away before you know it.

 

[old*cowboy]

Between late night at the auction, and time change I am kinda moving slow. Had a friend come up and bought one of the roosters from me that I bought last night. I really only needed one anyway and it worked out that way.

 

[old*cowboy]

We havd a great time last night in Blanchard. We didn't buy much just a few dog cages (aka rooster houses, lol) some itty bitty sweet banty cochin chicks (Kurt is over the moon with them) and a pair of Light Brahma banty cochins that Jackson wanted. Had to pay dearly for those but you know when those little 7 year old blue eyes look at you and say "pleeeese" well I am a goner! Sometimes it just pays to be the baby of 6 lol.

It was great to put names and faces together. We stayed until around 11, I had held out for a few of the barred rock hens but they went for way more than I wanted to pay. I will hold out till next week, since I was advised to save some money for next week, lol.

Well gotta get back out and check on the chicks that have been sick with cocci, death toll is at 3 but haven't lost any since yesterday afternoon. Hoping and praying we don't loose anymore. These are my barred rock babies that I hope to use for breeding next year.



On our wish list for POOPS, Jackson still wants a girlfriend for his buff banty cochin rooster. Not in a rush for one since he has his set he has been wanting but he still wants a mate for his boy.

I will be bringing some blue splash marans/blue andalusion chicks if I can get some to hatch. We just put her in his pen this weekend so no eggs from her yet. Hope they have some cute babies, lol.

Describe yourself, so I can remember who you was last night. I dont hardly ever set with the BYC crowd. Not snobish, just real shy. When I am on a one on one with people I do ok, but past that I go to getting nervous, and lots of things I say sound stupid. Just the way I was raised I guess, Dad was worse than me. lots of time when I was a kid and we had company, he would go out the back door when they come in the front. If I am not careful, I find myself doing that also. Funny last several years I worked for the public, you would have thought I would have got better. Anyway some time you are at an auction say hi. Sorry I missed you last night. And I learned long ago, if I am talking I cant concentrate on something I may want to buy.

 

[Amy Farah Fowler]

This guy still needs a home. I'll give him to anyone willing to come pick him up.