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CapricornFarm said:
My chocolate Irises
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OH I WOULD LOVE THAT! I'll try to get pics of mine when they bloom. One is a powder blue that was a start from a dear elder neighbor back in IL. He loved to garden as do I and we would often stand and talk over the fence about flowers and gardens. When he died his wife didn't take care of the iris and his other flowers. It broke my heart. One day I finally urged her to dig up the iris if she didn't want them and give them away as they were full of weeds. She thought that was a good idea and asked me to dig them for her as she didn't even know how to mow lawn. For digging them, she gave me starts. The blue followed me to my new home in Central Illinois, then to Western IL when I met DH and then to Missouri when we retired.

If you would like a start when I break these down we can swap! Probably won't be for a few years as they have only established from being moved from Western IL.

We hauled 3 loads of oak from the pasture today. DH figured that the main trunk, which is what we are working on now, estimated at 24" (I think it's a bit more but that is a nice round number) and 19 feet long and 9700 pounds of firewood. Poor tree, it was so gorgeous until it was hit with oak wilt last year after losing a big limb in a storm. We have one more big dead tree to drop that also died last summer.
 
ronott1 said:
I give mine the grass clippings too!
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I make mine clip their own grass.

Bunnylady said:
Sometimes it's not that simple.
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Nope. There was a story on NPR a few days ago about a potato farmer. BIG farm I gather. Problem is he packs in 50# boxes and 200# sacks for big consumers, can't get people to buy those at the grocery store. BUT!!!!!! I see no reason the stores can't put those potatoes out loose. There are always a variety of potatoes sold loose.

perchie.girl said:
I free feed too.
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I used to until the RATS! got bad this spring. I got 4 of them with a trap before they got wise. I MIGHT have a handle on the rest. Got some Ramik Green, been putting the pellets out at night where the rats have holes in the barn (carefully placed so the chickens can't find them in the morning). Some pellets remained yesterday so I've filled in the holes and will see if they are opened back up.
 
microchick said:
OH I WOULD LOVE THAT! I'll try to get pics of mine when they bloom. One is a powder blue that was a start from a dear elder neighbor back in IL. He loved to garden as do I and we would often stand and talk over the fence about flowers and gardens. When he died his wife didn't take care of the iris and his other flowers. It broke my heart. One day I finally urged her to dig up the iris if she didn't want them and give them away as they were full of weeds. She thought that was a good idea and asked me to dig them for her as she didn't even know how to mow lawn. For digging them, she gave me starts. The blue followed me to my new home in Central Illinois, then to Western IL when I met DH and then to Missouri when we retired.

If you would like a start when I break these down we can swap! Probably won't be for a few years as they have only established from being moved from Western IL.

We hauled 3 loads of oak from the pasture today. DH figured that the main trunk, which is what we are working on now, estimated at 24" (I think it's a bit more but that is a nice round number) and 19 feet long and 9700 pounds of firewood. Poor tree, it was so gorgeous until it was hit with oak wilt last year after losing a big limb in a storm. We have one more big dead tree to drop that also died last summer.
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That's funny because I had pale blue iris in my first garden as a kid in NY! Also poison ivy running up the cottonwood tree. Yeah, the chocolate one is in with other colors, but not a very big plant yet.
microchick said:
OH I WOULD LOVE THAT! I'll try to get pics of mine when they bloom. One is a powder blue that was a start from a dear elder neighbor back in IL. He loved to garden as do I and we would often stand and talk over the fence about flowers and gardens. When he died his wife didn't take care of the iris and his other flowers. It broke my heart. One day I finally urged her to dig up the iris if she didn't want them and give them away as they were full of weeds. She thought that was a good idea and asked me to dig them for her as she didn't even know how to mow lawn. For digging them, she gave me starts. The blue followed me to my new home in Central Illinois, then to Western IL when I met DH and then to Missouri when we retired.

If you would like a start when I break these down we can swap! Probably won't be for a few years as they have only established from being moved from Western IL.

We hauled 3 loads of oak from the pasture today. DH figured that the main trunk, which is what we are working on now, estimated at 24" (I think it's a bit more but that is a nice round number) and 19 feet long and 9700 pounds of firewood. Poor tree, it was so gorgeous until it was hit with oak wilt last year after losing a big limb in a storm. We have one more big dead tree to drop that also died last summer.
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I got my begonias in the ground today, and pulled a load of weeds. Picked up fallen sticks, then took half a mule load of dirt over to the hoop coop run.
The beans are coming up in the garden, radishes up. Loads of Romaine lettuce looking good. Quite a few tomato plants doing well, and the blackberries are blooming.
Going to town to sell a cockerel tomorrow. Lockdown on 2 incubators.
 
did any of you catch the flower supermoon? this was what it looked like here
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