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[superchemicalgirl]

We had drizzling slush today... driveway is a fishtailing fun ride.

Still making it up and down..haven't had to walk.

Sholders though are now soft...I get worried I will fishtail onto the soft sholder and then the car will ooze down through the soft snow into a ditch.

Bring your snorkel.

 

[Alaskan]

Brilliant.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I really do understand the mud is so bad where the old chicken run was
we had to run a walkway of pallets as I went down in the mud and muck
while they where still stuck in it not quite had bad now but still have my walkway
as we did shorten it allot so I could use the fermented chicken poo in planting

 

[microchick]

If your are heading towards North Eastern Missouri, bring flippers. I only saw one Amish buggy go down the road today and our mail man with his 4 wheel drive jeep.

On a bright note, I picked two asparagus spears from a bed I planted two years ago with a lot more coming up. I can almost taste it.

 

[pennyJo1960]

If your are heading towards North Eastern Missouri, bring flippers. I only saw one Amish buggy go down the road today and our mail man with his 4 wheel drive jeep.

On a bright note, I picked two asparagus spears from a bed I planted two years ago with a lot more coming up. I can almost taste it.

Ah sure sounds tastey We had enough of break got all our planting done I did
cut apart potatoes at the eyes so they need to dry a day or two and am planting them all in burlap bags
this year

 

[microchick]

Ah sure sounds tastey We had enough of break got all our planting done I did
cut apart potatoes at the eyes so they need to dry a day or two and am planting them all in burlap bags
this year

Let me know how that works out. I bought about 7 pounds of seed potatoes to plant as a trial. I've never planted them before so if they do well, next year I'll plant more.

We got the preliminary ground turning done on our garden then the rains came. Our neighbor wants to rent a three point hitch tiller and offered it for our use if we would donate the tractor for the job. Since we have two tractors with three point hitches it seemed like a good idea. We just have to wait for the ground to dry out a bit.....lot....

All of my seed and onion plants are sitting in my utility room in a milk crate just waiting. I can hardly wait to play in the dirt!

 

[Peep_Show]

That is a great chicken setup. Are you going to be breeding and selling eggs?

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Not a fan of Wal-Mart either (although we refer to it as "Wally-World"). It's the human circus.

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The radishes are up and the peas are sprouting, beets are taking their sweet time (I may have planted too deep). Indoors the Amish Paste and San Marzano tomatoes are the first ones busting the soil. Not as good as hatching, I know, but still a vicarious thrill.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: Another person on our Washington state thread has used old burlap feed bags
well they do not sell feed in burlap these days much but use it to insulate my coops
so made a few dozen bags mark the bags at the depths you plant I am doing six bags
but they are not full make them good weights

 

[Beer can]

Awesome coop @getaclue !!

 

[microchick]

Another person on our Washington state thread has used old burlap feed bags
well they do not sell feed in burlap these days much but use it to insulate my coops
so made a few dozen bags mark the bags at the depths you plant I am doing six bags
but they are not full make them good weights

I saw 'potato bags' in one of the seed catalogs, maybe Burpees that had little velcro edged access flaps built into them so you could harvest new potatoes from them without disturbing the rest of the plant or subsequent produce from that plant.