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[Wisher1000]

Want some siberian iris?



Yes!

Or red hot pokers?



And, oh Hel.......... um, Heck yes!

I would like those together in a bed with narrow-leaf coreopsis as a filler....

 

[Wisher1000]

Hello everybody! I just found this thread and managed to read the first 20+ pages before I had to skip to the end here at page 810. As I grow older, my attention span seems to grow shorter.

As for my qualifications -- I can reminisce about the entire decade of the 70's and anything after that. I don't think of myself as old although chronologically I guess I am, but heck, I'm still younger than dirt AND I'm 15 years younger than my DH so I always get a kick out of that. So, does that get me entry into this happy little group? I hope so because, like another BYC member posted much earlier in this thread, I'm allergic to children. Having to wade through their posts containing what passes for their idea of English is exasperating. It's also a bit frightening to be reminded that they'll be running things (or trying to) in a few years. Sheesh!

Hey! Glad you joined us here, you sound like a perfect addition to our little group. Pull up a rocking chair and sit a spell, we talk about a little bit of everything and a lot about chickens! I know you somewhat from the Alabama!! thread, but you may want to tell everyone about your birds. Come by often, or you'll get behind!

 

[Pozees]

Bumblefoot can be treated with sugar and iodine and then wrapped with a small square of gauze and vet wrap. Try PMing Kassaundra for details, I believe she is the one who first posted this method in Natural Chicken Keeping. Soaking will work, also, I have seen the suggestion several times that the soak should include Epsom Salts.

Arielle, I listen to NPR every morning and evening during my commute, and I love the in depth stories they've done about issues of concern to us all. I especially appreciate the fact they will spend more than 30 seconds on a story, trying to tell a more entire story.

Chickens and gardens are a tough combination. I've fallen back on keeping them enclosed in runs spring and summer, and then I turn them loose evenings in the fall after I've finished harvesting vegetables and the flower garden is pretty much spent. They still manage to scatter mulch far and wide, uncover roots I'd rather weren't and generally wreak havoc in the beds, but they are so happy, even DH recognizes how much they enjoy it.

 

[Wisher1000]

Does anyone else have/love/hate Queen Anne's Lace? I have gotten it started in an open area between the house and the road. I know it is a weed, and I know it is invasive, but I just love it. I like bouquets of it on the counter or table and I love to put food coloring in the water and change their colors.

And this picture just fascinates me. I would like to try to duplicate that one day...

 

[Pozees]

Queen Anne's Lace is a weed that is beneficial to honey bees, as I recall. I have often though about planting some here - in NY it was a weed, here I rarely see it.

 

[AK Baha]

Think I need to get this for my wife.

 

[drumstick diva]

Where did you find that sign? Would be perfect as an Xmas gift.

 

[AK Baha]

Where did you find that sign? Would be perfect as an Xmas gift.

On Manna pro. I think I will have one made up. I love it!!

 

[tnspursfan09]

What ever works for you. I can get them heeled in asap or plant in the spring.

A number of years ago my mother brought me boxes of freshly dug clumps. I spent hours under the faucet separating each little plant. Love the daylilies.

Me too...and I got hooked on them. I was ordering new ones offline and trying to hybridize my own. Eight years down the line and I'm swimming in them. Now insert the word "chicken" for "daylilies" and here I go again. I do love my garden, though. Eventually I want the entire area to be just garden and stone walkway, no grass. It's just a small strip of the yard that leads out from the kitchen. Chickens are great for turning the compost! They keep the crawlies out of the garden, too. The only plants they eat (besides the weeds) are the tomatoes. I also have a nice crop os seed growing under the ird feeder. Thought it was corn, but it seems to be some kind of birdseed.

 

[tnspursfan09]

I would like those together in a bed with narrow-leaf coreopsis as a filler....

That would be gorgeous!