Texas

[back2simplelife]

WOW! Gone for a week and I am now 900 posts behind! hahaaa.. trying to play catch up but wanted to jump in and say

Hi Ya'll!!

 

[TammyTX]

... we like to talk...a lot.

 

[TammyTX]

Where has Mandy been...?

 

[RachaelS]

Where has Mandy been...?

I was wondering the same thing! And Italia?

 

[wlhtx]

Mandy was supposed to get all her new chicks. She may be busy swooning over them.

 

[TammyTX]

Apparently, as a sweet potato grower...I grow great VINES! I just dug up about 4 plants and there is NOTHING under them. One other plant had a baby sweet potato that would fill 1/2 cup. I babied these freaking plants all through the drought for THIS???? I was expecting 50 POUNDS of sweet potatoes from my 12 plants.

My corn TANKED even with two plantings, my summer squash DIED, my spaghetti squash is still alive but has not produced anything...even a baby squash, my pumpkins didn't even come up, my tomatoes barely produced considering I had TWENTY-FIVE plants...I give up.

Yes, I have peppers of all colors coming out my ears...YES, I had four descent sized watermelons that were pretty sweet and YES my okra is doing well and I had a few cuc's.

..okay, so I also got good exercise and was able to work out in the heat longer than my husband who is in great shape and me...not so much. And I did enjoy feeding the few hornworms to the chickens...and I like feeling the accomplishment of carrying on a homesteading tradition.

Dang. YES I WILL PLANT AGAIN!

 

[uglychickens]

Apparently, as a sweet potato grower...I grow great VINES!   I just dug up about 4 plants and there is NOTHING under them.  One other plant had a baby sweet potato that would fill 1/2 cup.  I babied these freaking plants all through the drought for THIS????  I was expecting 50 POUNDS of sweet potatoes from my 12 plants.



My corn TANKED even with two plantings, my summer squash DIED, my spaghetti squash is still alive but has not produced anything...even a baby squash, my pumpkins didn't even come up, my tomatoes barely produced considering I had TWENTY-FIVE plants...I give up.  

Yes, I have peppers of all colors coming out my ears...YES, I had four descent sized watermelons that were pretty sweet and YES my okra is doing well and I had a few cuc's.

..okay, so I also got good exercise and was able to work out in the heat longer than my husband who is in great shape and me...not so much.  And I did enjoy feeding the few hornworms to the chickens...and I like feeling the accomplishment of carrying on a homesteading tradition.

Dang.  YES I WILL PLANT AGAIN!  

What style of planting do you do? From what I've heard and seen the best way to plant down here is to do raised beds with ba$tard trenching... Can't believe that they blanked that word out!!!

 

[hstave]

Apparently, as a sweet potato grower...I grow great VINES! I just dug up about 4 plants and there is NOTHING under them. One other plant had a baby sweet potato that would fill 1/2 cup. I babied these freaking plants all through the drought for THIS???? I was expecting 50 POUNDS of sweet potatoes from my 12 plants.

My corn TANKED even with two plantings, my summer squash DIED, my spaghetti squash is still alive but has not produced anything...even a baby squash, my pumpkins didn't even come up, my tomatoes barely produced considering I had TWENTY-FIVE plants...I give up.

Yes, I have peppers of all colors coming out my ears...YES, I had four descent sized watermelons that were pretty sweet and YES my okra is doing well and I had a few cuc's.

..okay, so I also got good exercise and was able to work out in the heat longer than my husband who is in great shape and me...not so much. And I did enjoy feeding the few hornworms to the chickens...and I like feeling the accomplishment of carrying on a homesteading tradition.

Dang. YES I WILL PLANT AGAIN!

Hi! I'm in Dallas, and heard that everyone was having problems this spring and summer with all veggies. Our garden was not very good through the summer. Spring tomatoes were great, though - prolific and delicious.

Now, we did have good potatoes this spring, but the squash never produced. The vine borers killed every single vine. All we got out of the squash were a couple tasty borer grubs to give to our chickens! LOL!

The chickens were happy, to say the least.

 

[FaithWalkFarms]

I haven't been around much the past couple of months -- was a busy summer.... BUT ... one of our chicks (girls) FINALLY STARTED LAYING!!!.... Not regular yet, but I've gotten two minty-sage green eggs in the past 72 hours.

Just waiting on the rest of my girls to catch up and start laying!!!!

 

[tcmstalcup]

I am not breeding specifically right now so everyone is in general population. I just went to gather eggs and one of my son's hatchery dutch bantams came out from under the porch with TWO BABIES!!!! How did that happen? Never mind I know LOL. I can't believe she slid this by me and now won't confess who the daddy is. We don't have a dutch bantam roo so even if she was quality (she is not) they are mutts.