The Front Porch Swing

[LindaB220]

I can buy the frozen stuff in the grocery store here. I don't care for it. The last time I bought it the package was full of thick stalks. Yuck!

I did some reading up on growing rhubarb here and found out I need to plant it in the fall and treat it as an annual. I'm going to get some seeds (recommended) and try that. I can start the seeds in July and set them out in early Sept. I'll plant them on the east side of my garage. Good drainage there and protection from the hot sun. Maybe I will be lucky and I can get it to be a perennial.

Good idea. I hit the zone 8b also.

 

[LindaB220]

I guess it all depends on where you are and what you want....I have several large clumps of rhubarb, most of which are already up and growing. I love that stuff! Use it in all kinds of recipes and freeze the young, tender stalks to make strawberry/rhubarb jam all winter long. Kenny and Jenny have two clumps of it, they hate it, and the plants grow so big they interfere with the other stuff Jen wants to do - so for the past 4 years they've been trying to get rid of it. They made the mistake the first year of mowing it down. Came back bigger than ever. The next year Kenny dug all around it and pulled it up....it came back. Third year he pulled it, hit it with Roundup, and thought it was gone. Went a whole season without seeing any. I just noticed on my way back from their house that it's ba-aaak! He hasn't seen it yet - he's gonna come uncorked!

Just treat it like comfrey and start a compost pile on it. Done deal!!!! Maybe.

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

Quote: I gots a broody

Due to hatch eggs on May 1

Barred Rocks I hope.

 

[Beekissed]

I gots a broody

Due to hatch eggs on May 1

Barred Rocks I hope.

for broodies!! My favorite kind of incubator!

 

[Ms Jellybean]

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[BCMaraniac]

I gots a broody

Due to hatch eggs on May 1

Barred Rocks I hope.

I gots one of those too....I just need to move her and put my egg choice under her and not hers.

 

[Beekissed]

Here is my garden - it's about 10'x20'. I want to make it bigger. Maybe next year I will actually get that done. I just planted it 22 March. The onions have been in since January.

We scaled ours down to about half this year of what we usually plant!

Funny, isn't it? Some want larger, some going smaller...the grass is always greener, etc. We want smaller but more intense, with concentrating only on certain veggies this year for certain things we want to can. I want to do some square foot gardening this year along with companion planting to maximize our smaller space, to see if we can get a greater yield in a smaller area instead of using a larger area and not getting as good an outcome.

 

[lindz8504]

Ok, so I know you are not supposed to open the incubator until all the chicks have hatched.... My humidity has been running around 70%, and there were no active pips (I wouldn't have opened the incubator if there had been). The chicks kept jumping baskets and then freaking out when they were by themselves, so I hurried up and moved them all to the brooder. Humidity only dropped to 67%, and everyone seems to be much happier... they are quieter anyway! So.... here are some fluffy pictures!

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Hello everyone! Could I join?

 

[BCMaraniac]

@lindz8504 They are gorgeous!