Surviving Minnesota!

[lvie]

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Huh? Lavender? Wonderful stuff! EVERYONE should have lavender around the house and in their first aid kit. It is good for everything. The dried leaves could go into the babies room for a soothing aroma to help the little one sleep. Lavender tea - wonderful, wonderful stuff. Good for you.

 

[lvie]

What do you guys prefer. Cup or nipple waterers?

Nipples

 

[lvie]

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Huh? Lavender? Wonderful stuff! EVERYONE should have lavender around the house and in their first aid kit. It is good for everything. The dried leaves could go into the babies room for a soothing aroma to help the little one sleep. Lavender tea - wonderful, wonderful stuff. Good for you.

I would definitely put it in the vodka and use it on sunburn (after a month of soaking and then drain off the vodka) burns mosquito bites anything and everything.

 

[I Love Layers]

Nipples

Why do you like nipple better? I'm trying to figure out if one of them is worth buying.

 

[Cebarmlds]

What do you guys prefer. Cup or nipple waterers?

Horizontal nipples, water stays clean! chickens didn't have any trouble figuring it out.

 

[KlopKlop]

What do you guys prefer. Cup or nipple waterers?

I like the cups

 

[lvie]

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They get the water; the nipples and the cups are not expensive; not the clean up because the 'stuff' cannot be kicked up into it. Cleaner.

 

[lvie]

Okay - the wind has now started. The flock is fed and watered and in their runs. So no worries about them. I can just hibernate for as long as I want or can stand it. Sew, more Game of Thrones, reading. Some housework, some office work. Peace, quiet, contentment. Lucky me! Called retirement after years of hockey games with three boys, soccer, working fulltime ++, community invovelment (still maintain some), blessed friends, healthy family. Opps! sorry . . . . I just went off on a tangent. Loving this life.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I grew mammoth sunflowers last year to feed to my chickens over winter. I have saved a good pile of seeds to replant this year. I saved the biggest seeds from the biggest heads in hopes this would propagate the genes of the biggest plants. Is there any truth to my logic? Or will any seeds from the heads do?

I think if that's all you grew and nothing crossed with it....like volunteer BOSS plants like I have here and there...then you'll grow great big ones again. My biggest Sunflower heads were grown in a pile of black dirt next to a newly constructed garage when I lived in the Banana Belt of South Haven with my husband and we were newly weds. They were volunteers. I couldn't get over it. I think it was the depth of the loose black dirt that helped too. But they were HUMONGOUS. Just two of them...but I babied them until harvest time too. LOL. THey were fun.

I just learned more than I have previously from anybody. I will add that I have heard to give the mushroom a gentle shake so that the spores fall out where they are growing and will regrow the next year. Thank you Jerryse.

Carrying morels in a mesh bag (like an old onion bag) through the woods helps sprinkle those spores and ALWAYS cut the base with a pocket knife leaving the base of the mushroom in the dirt not pulled out by their mushroomy roots. (I read a good morel article one time.

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Oh and I made a goof. I picked up a plant off the clearance rack at Lowes last night (the peat pot was all busted up) thinking I was getting a rosemary plant. Turns out it is lavender! what the heck do you use lavender for? it is a nice plant but im not sure what to do with it now.

Lavender. I love it. But it is the only thing I cannot grow outside as a herb. It does not like my poorly draining clay soil. If you over water it - it dies. If you underwater it - it dies. I even ammended soil with sand last year where I specifically planted it....it died. Lavender is an obnoxious plant to grow in my Yard. ARGH......! And I want it so bad..... It smells fantastic. And it can be very very showy in the garden.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Oh ...One of the biggest morels I ever picked was on a sandy 4 wheeler trail. It was amazing. It was hard to get all the sand out of the holes of the mushroom though.