Oregon

[Miz Mary]

It is SO frosty this morning !! My 'kids' love to forage in it !!! I just ordered more chicks online ......

I ended up with only 5 out of 12 being hens last time .... this time I paid the crazy price to "gauruntee" hens ..thats CRAZY to pay so much !!! 2 Buff Silkies, and 2 Mille Fluer D'Uccle ........
Im adding 3 Buff Orps too the big girls flock , they will be new for me ......... My dog-run-turned-hen-run is working out great for the banties, need to re- wire the big girls run this spring ........

I would be scared of a turkey chasing me across the yard , but they ARE pretty to look at !!! GOOD LUCK Tallyho !!!

 

[geeber]

Good morning! So glad the holidays are over & everything will get back to the ol' routine. Anyone starting to plan their gardens yet? I've requested some seed catalogs & I'm thinking about where best to dig up the dirt. This summer I would like to teach myself to can. How about you?

 

[chickerdoodle]

Hello fellow Oregonians! Yes geeber, I am just starting to think about the spring and what I will do with the flowers and changes I will do for the front of our home's landscaping. I was thinking of having another raised bed in the back yard for veggies--we have one for our raspberries now. My problem is I am not great at growing veggies (flowers do pretty well) and am wondering which ones to try. I do grow one or two tomato plants each year and they do OK. I have tried zucchini but even the zucchini didn't do well the last year.

Plenty of sun in the back so I know it has to be my fault. Arggh. I am going to have lovely fertilizer

so perhaps that will make a difference. Anyway I wish you all a great new year!

 

[Miz Mary]

Last year was really BAD for growing ........ I am getting new roses , they do very well !! My tomatoes and zucchini did poorly last year ! I will try all sorts of things ....peas and beans , wish I cold grow root veggies, but we live on ROCK, whick makes little rocks no matter how much dirt you add !!! I just got 5 seed catalogs in the last 3 days of mail !!! OH MY !!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Nah, I don't tend to plan very much ahead of time. I'm more of a "get an idea and just do it" type of person. Once I get something in my head, that's it. I'm nuts until it's done. Last year though I actually planned a garden, it rained so much for so long I didn't get the garden planted until really late, and didn't hardly get anything out of it.

 

[DMSrabbit]

My garden was pretty fruitful last year, although i have had MANY better years. You cant expect much with such a short "summer" season. Alot of plants that were planted in mid-spring (like mine) got stunted when it rained for like 2 weeks, and they all just shot into bloom. Oh well, cant do well every year, then we would have nothing to learn from..

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Yeah, but I'd be ok with that! LOL

 

[tallyho]

We have too much shade. We plant veggies anyway but we are constantly fighting the sunlight issue. Last year we got 3 huge 25 year old blueberry bushes. Can't wait to see the tonnage production this year!

 

[geeber]

I would love to have some raised beds but my carpentry skills are lacking. So I think I'll be putting up some little landscape fencing to keep the dogs out. I dont anything is going to keep the chickens out. :0 But I'm okay w/ that.

Would like to plant a small amount of some sort of grain. Just for funsies. Tomatoes, zuccinis, pumpkins, carrots, radishes, beans, peas.... what else... the list goes on.

Of course it's all daydreaming now. What w/ the frozen yard. This morning our girls are huddled under the heat lamp. Brrrrrrr. I think they are getting tired of the cold.

 

[Noncentzter]

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Right now I'm willing to put up with the cold rather than the rain! LOL