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[vehve]

Ok, Oz, I shall do that. All the listings are for that though, so it's easier to calculate. As long as the protein% is pretty close to the target, that number is pretty descriptive too.

 

[Peep_Show]

Goaties!!!

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony
Just wanted to say thank's for your help.
My hen is feeling a lot peppier and herself again today. Not sure if it was the vitamins but only feeling bad for 4 days and then back to her old self again. Makes me think it helped her and all my hens are peppier and laid more eggs today! YEAH!!!!

You're welcome! Gald to hear she is better!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

@Arielle and @superchemicalgirl and other noerth eastern members - Stay warm and safe and hope the weather reports greatly over exaggerated the snow!

@ronott1 and @perchie.girl and other west coast members Hope you get the rain you need SAFELY! No mudslides, flooding or injuries!

Wow, it poured here last night... Ducks are in heaven! Sadly, it was raining at the higher elevations, so we probably lost some of what little snow pack we had.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

@ozexpat , congrats on baby goats, they're cute!

-Kathy

 

[drumstick diva]

Kathy, your comment "ducks are in heaven," had me holding my heart, then I realized you meant "heaven on earth," Feel much better now - whew that was scary. I tend to take everything seriously.

 

[perchie.girl]

@Arielle
We are on water rationing.... San Diego is on a mandated 20 percent cut back from the previous year.

here yards are coming out and being replaced with either hardscape or Xeriscaping. I have a plan of a Xeriscaped yard... for this yard. We are allowed to water lawns twice a week. There are some that have figured out how to use grey water in the yard..

There are a few that dont give a (insert explitive of your choice here) about it all and water the lawns and wash their cars and let the water just go down the drain... But peer pressure is weeding those out... along with the hefty fines.

Oh and car washing is recommended to do at a car wash. By law Car washes are required to recycle.

Yep I would love to Xeriscape grandmas yard its very small maybe about twenty four by about thirty. It would be done on a gradual basis as we could afford it.

first the Swale that starts on the side of the house would be continued down through the yard with a river of cobblestones. Before the gate I would put two foot square pavers then run them across the front of the planter in front of the house. You cant walk on gravel very easily and this would provide a decorateive access to the gate.

Then next down from the gate I would plant a grouping of Grasses the kind that get about three or four feet tall with really pretty heads on them when they go to seed. surrounding them I would use more river rocks but they would be around an inch in diameter and as white as I could find... Then in line with those I would plant a single Crepe myrtle tree the kind that have multiple trunks. I love the form of the tree and the shape and the color of the bark. Surrounded by more natural white river stones. from there the stones will be raked into ripples to mimic water.

ON the other side of the Big Cobble stones I would do an aloe garden.... with a few butterfly bushes as well. specimens only. with a bed of bark.

The tree and Grasses will be fed water from Ollas... Literally Terracotta pitchers buried in the ground Terracotta is very porous and all you need to do is fill them up with water and forget them. They have a decorative grate to keep things from falling in... also made of terracotta.

The specimen garden would be fed by drip... once established the drip can be turned off for the most part. Or can have water delivered by a cistern of grey water.

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

I'm out to work on the driveway some more (sixth day)- with my trusty shovel. Apparently that is "character building," I'm almost 5 feet tall, my character towers above me -almost like a cone! Heavy too.

 

[vehve]

But how does that no watering policy work in the long run, won't everyone's lawn dying just contribute to the problem? The ground won't be able to bind water anymore and with no plants to provide shade, the evaporation will be even quicker. Or am I looking at this the wrong way? It's not a situation I'm all that familiar with, we usually get more rain than we need.

 

[ronott1]

But how does that no watering policy work in the long run, won't everyone's lawn dying just contribute to the problem? The ground won't be able to bind water anymore and with no plants to provide shade, the evaporation will be even quicker. Or am I looking at this the wrong way? It's not a situation I'm all that familiar with, we usually get more rain than we need.

Even in a normal year, we get no rain from May or June until late Sept. All plants die except some that have the ability to store water in the roots or trees that can tap into deep water under ground.

Lawns use a lot more water than other plants. What people are doing is putting in plants that do not use too much water and add bark or rocks instead of lawn. It makes sense to have plants that grow in a desert since that what California is for 6 months of a year.