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[Peep_Show]

The nice thing with an Amazon Prime subscription (free or not) is that besides the free 2-day shipping you also get streaming video, so lots of TV shows and movies to choose from.

 

[chickisoup]

The nice thing with an Amazon Prime subscription (free or not) is that besides the free 2-day shipping you also get streaming video, so lots of TV shows and movies to choose from.

Been a prime member for years. The "free" shipping in recent times really isn't all that free as they up the price on "prime" products but it's still less than normal s&h would be. I have managed to save a lot on some items tho by ordering them on Walmart online and doing the site to store pickup thing. I love the free apps, lots of great ebooks either free or super cheap for prime members and I love the streaming videos. Only problem for me is my internet speed is HORRIBLE! they keep giving excuses and "promise" they're working on it. (ranted at length all ready I'm sure).

 

[chickadoodles]

Thanks Scg and Beer can. I will see what I can come up with. I have rolls of screen so just need to find something to hold it up. lol

 

[Beer can]

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Thank you for this information. I want to grow this coming season. Are 1015 yellow a short storage sweet onion? That is commonly sold here. Is copra yellow a "Spanish" onion as sometimes called for in recipes?

Copra is a hybrid and the best storage onion there is as far as I know, with a strong flavor, I still use it in everything including salads, raw you might want to go a little light on it/use less. I wanted to go all open pollinated/heritage for my entire garden and thought about getting the spanish onion which is a open pollinated variety of sweet big onion that is good for growing in the north, but it only has a storage potential of four months. I guess maybe we could have chopped and freeze what we don't use up quick.
Yeah, 1015 yellow is 'Texas super sweet', 2-3 months on storage. One other thing to look at is whether you need short day variety (south) and generally not storage onions, or long day variety (north), intermediate day is OK for both.

 

[microchick]

Copra, I haven't seen or heard of that type of onion around us. Most grow the Vidalia sweet, or Texas sweet onions. My husband likes an onion that tastes like an onion so I bought just straight generic whites this year. They have a nice 'oniony' flavor to them but with the soft spots showing up in the skins, I'm wondering what their 'hang' life will be for me over the winter months.

Where do you get the Copra variety from, Beer can?

Onions are one of the few garden crops that I can successfully grow in our soil.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I don't have much "soil" so most of what I do is raised beds and/or raised bags. In fact, that's all I do. It's a lot of hauling dirt (I take the dirt out of the bags at the end of each season but leave the raised beds intact) but what's nice is at the end of the season I take the container dirt out and spread it in the biddy bunkers in the chicken run.
Pretty much a win-win.
Might be too hot where you are to get away with raised beds/bags but it works fairly well here.

 

[Alaskan]

Kids are driving my car in our parking lot... To fill it up with trash...


I just heard "A, try not to crash the car again"



-sigh-

 

[perchie.girl]

Kids are driving my car in our parking lot... To fill it up with trash...


I just heard "A, try not to crash the car again"



-sigh-

 

[superchemicalgirl]

For those of you interested in the process, I extracted honey today (and sweated insanely in my bee suit while working the hive for about an hour). It doesn't take that long to get the honey off the hive, but my bees also had built Bee City in an unsanctioned location (without a permit) and today was a good opportunity to dismantle it since the queen was no longer laying in it and they were now using it for honey. The whole process took less than 4 hours.

Honey is "ready" when it is capped with wax by the bees. That means that enough water has evaporated out of it that it is true honey and won't spoil. If the honey isn't capped it has too much water concentration, and will spoil if not eaten quickly. When choosing frames for extracting, you want to choose ones that have at least 75% of the cells capped. The below frame is 100% capped on both sides.



I destroy the whole frame when I harvest honey. There's extracting knives that heat up so you just take the cappings off, and then place the frame in a spinner, but that set up costs a lot of money. I use a metal spatula and rip the cells off and into a 9x13 baking pan, then into a colander system.



The colander system gets the major wax pieces out. There will still be small pieces of wax, but once left unattended for about 24 hours, the tiny pieces of wax will settle to the top of the jars and can be skimmed off.

 

[microchick]

Thank you for sharing that superchemicalgirl. I've always wondered how the process was done. We have a small orchard of peach, pear and apple trees and an arbor of over 100 blackberry bushes. It would be soooooo nice to have a hive so we had bees working the plants for us and giving us honey in return but then neither DH or myself areterribly fond of jabbing ourselves in the side of our thighs with an EpiPen, then rushing to the ER where we would spend X amount of time laying on a gurney with electrocardiograph leads and O2 tubing hanging off of us......I love honey but not that much,

Maybe we could do the rent a hive thing.