Southern NY, Dutchess county and below

[littlecritters]

Oh good grief. So sad.

Thank you! I really didn't mean to say anything, but I slipped. Our breeder is a sweetheart and is working with us. We've both been crying...

 

[Imprfctme]

August is here,looking out my back door doesn't get any better then this

This is my pink-tip okra that I got through Seed Savers, also known as Hill Country Okra:


Not nearly as big and showy as your blooms, but then did you get these after the bloom?



Am I the only Yankee that loves Okra this much?

 

[Imprfctme]

I hatched out a bunch of Bobwhite this spring for a friend.
I let half of them go in my yard, and never saw them again.
One day a few weeks ago, I heard a strange noise coming from an empty lot across the street from me.
I haven't heard them since I was a kid

it was a nice surprise!

We went to Montauk when I was 5 years old, and I came back with memories of catching my first fish, seeing brown bunnies running through the yard, and hearing bobwhite quail for the first time ever. I even saw a little family of them one day. I have carried that memory for a long time, always loved their silly little call. I hope there are still plenty of wild quail out there on the island!

 

[Imprfctme]

Oh gosh! Now I remember what I came on here to type.

(They need a head smack smiley face)

So since J. Lo the white rock is super broody, and has been for two weeks now, I gave up on trying to break her. Instead I slipped two fertile eggs I purchased from the grocery store health food section under her. Is this crazy? Or rather, give me all the reasons why it's crazy.

Here, I'll start the list:

1. You will be getting roosters, if you get anything at all

 

[magsrags]

Oh gosh! Now I remember what I came on here to type.

(They need a head smack smiley face)

So since J. Lo the white rock is super broody, and has been for two weeks now, I gave up on trying to break her. Instead I slipped two fertile eggs I purchased from the grocery store health food section under her. Is this crazy? Or rather, give me all the reasons why it's crazy.

Here, I'll start the list:

1. You will be getting roosters, if you get anything at all

I've read some people on byc say they did that and got a few peeps that way.Good luck! If they don't hatch out in 3 weeks get her a couple of young ones and set them under her at night and take away the dummy eggs. She will accept them.....and it is so nice to let them raise them.
All mine are running free in the wooded area of my yard because it is just too hot not to let them out. The 3 little ones are so cute learning the rules of freedom.

 

[queenchick16]

This is my pink-tip okra that I got through Seed Savers, also known as Hill Country Okra:


Not nearly as big and showy as your blooms, but then did you get these after the bloom?



Am I the only Yankee that loves Okra this much?

I love okra also but then again I spent several years in Kentucky as a child. I put okra in my border gardens cause I love the flower so much. They do last a little longer then the perennial hibiscus . There are VERY few things my husband does not like and okra is one of them. That's a beauty of a plant ,and harvest.

 

[Imprfctme]

I've read some people on byc say they did that and got a few peeps that way.Good luck! If they don't hatch out in 3 weeks get her a couple of young ones and set them under her at night and take away the dummy eggs. She will accept them.....and it is so nice to let them raise them.
All mine are running free in the wooded area of my yard because it is just too hot not to let them out. The 3 little ones are so cute learning the rules of freedom.

I will give that a shot. I'm not really sure what if anything I'm going to do with the chicks if they do hatch. This is how chicken math begins, isn't it?

I would love to see chickies running free through the yard! So cute!

 

[Imprfctme]

I love okra also but then again I spent several years in Kentucky as a child. I put okra in my border gardens cause I love the flower so much. They do last a little longer then the perennial hibiscus . There are VERY few things my husband does not like and okra is one of them. That's a beauty of a plant ,and harvest.

Well thank you. It makes up for the pathetic (again) tomato crop. This time I got started plants from SSE and they developed some sort of bacterial blight spot on the leaves and the fruit. I have tried for 3 summers now to grow tomatoes and it just doesn't work. I don't think we have enough sun. Next year I'm just going to buy my tomatoes and focus on the crops that do work.

My husband doesn't love okra either, but I'm trying the Southern Living recipe for okra cornmeal fritters with tomato slices on top tonight. We'll see if I can change his mind. I'm also trying to make a cake for the Epicurious bake Julia Child a birthday cake contest, we shall see how that goes. Julia and I shared the same birthday so I feel an obligation to enter it.

 

[Imprfctme]

My first ever Moon & Stars watermelon! Can't wait to pick it

 

[smkchick]

Well thank you. It makes up for the pathetic (again) tomato crop. This time I got started plants from SSE and they developed some sort of bacterial blight spot on the leaves and the fruit. I have tried for 3 summers now to grow tomatoes and it just doesn't work. I don't think we have enough sun. Next year I'm just going to buy my tomatoes and focus on the crops that do work.

I tried growing my own tomato plants from seeds of heirloom tomatoes that I saved. No luck. But now heirloom tomatoes are pretty common in gardening centers, so I buy the plants. This year I lost my "Boxcar Willie" to some sort of disease just after his first tomato. And my "Rutgers" isn't looking too great, but I think it's because I didn't prune it enough. I do have a windowsill full of 'matoes though...

My cucumber plants have run riot in the garden. Next year, just one! (the forehead slap smilie icon goes here).

The bird netting helped saved the blackberries (yum). And I planted an acorn squash plant that seems to be thriving.

And of course, we won't discuss the zucchini fiasco.