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[Smokerbill]

Use dandelion in salad not just for the birds..

I just picked some fresh dandelion leaves, chopped them and added them to my supper pasta dish. Along with some fresh lemon balm and parsley from my garden. Should be good!

 

[Smokerbill]

Just got back from a supply run to the Longview Fred Meyer. I was running low on protein. Now I have a few month's stock of ground beef, chicken thighs and cheese. Bought a whole sockeye salmon which I'm getting ready to cut up and package for the freezer. The chicks will get to try their first taste of salmon today!

Supper yesterday evening gave me some energy so I was able to get to cover over the bed of planted tomatoes and basil. Need to go out and pull off the plastic in a bit so the soil dries out some. It's still pretty moist.

Edited to update:
The bits of cooked salmon I hand fed the chicks nearly started a riot! Along with the salmon, they got a small handful of lemon balm. A well balanced snack!

And I pulled the plastic off of the tomatoes. They're still looking good.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Headed to Chehalis for meds everyone have a great day.

 

[ValerieJ]

I’m a newbie chicken keeper in Washington state!

Welcome to the thread! How many chickens do you have? What kinds?

@Smokerbill, the coop and run are looking great!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning to all 70's here then we drop again to the 50's.
Found a nest in the hazelnut tree 26 eggs did a float test all recent too.

 

[Smokerbill]

I noticed that one of my new rhubarb plants has droopy, limp stems. I'm thinking it's root rot. I screwed up and covered the bed with a layer of leaf mulch right after I planted them and I guess that's a no no. Holds in the moisture, and wet ground is very bad for rhubarb.

And if it is root rot, it will probably spread to the other plant that's 3 feet away. Might just pull them both out and plant something else in that bed, and start a new rhubarb bed somewhere else.

Darn.

Yesterday I performed a "lift and strip" operation on my horseradish plant. It's supposed to rid the plant of excess rooting and encourage a larger main root. Hope it works.
https://extension.umn.edu/vegetables/growing-horseradish#lifting-and-stripping-roots-937261

 

[pennyJo1960]

It is pretty early yet for planting.
I am putting my tomato out.

 

[sarieth]

Welcome to the thread! How many chickens do you have? What kinds?

@Smokerbill, the coop and run are looking great!

Wanted 3 originally but then chicken math happened to account for potential losses so we went with 6. And we currently have 6 seemingly healthy 7ish week olds. 2 Bielefelders, cream legbars and some “crosses” according to the farm I got them from.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Welcome to state thread chicken math is real.

 

[ValerieJ]

Wanted 3 originally but then chicken math happened to account for potential losses so we went with 6. And we currently have 6 seemingly healthy 7ish week olds. 2 Bielefelders, cream legbars and some “crosses” according to the farm I got them from.

I understand chicken math. My neat little flock of 7 has become 20 in the last few years. Way more than I ever wanted, but nothing to be done about it. I have a few that are completely retired and don't lay any eggs at all. They are 6 year old Australorps.

I also have Buff Orpingtons, Lavender Orpingtons, Leghorns, and a few barnyard mixes that my girls have raised.