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[T Hi]

It is possible to keep a clean run even with ducks!!!!

 

[justbugged]

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The only problem with with getting duck to play in that water is that by tomorrow most of it will gone, unless of course it keeps raining like it has. I still keep thinking about the miniature ducks that some one mentioned awhile back. I could almost see getting a couple of ducks if they were really little. I still just don't have room for ducks. I am still trying to figure out where the raised garden bed are going to go.

 

[Greg Richardson]

Oggress.

I picked out the seeds I want from Uprising Seeds; $130.20! (and I still need more beans, and would like to try melon as well)I have not submitted the order yet. What do I eliminate?

WOW! You have lot of area to plant?

I'll give you an example how I eliminated some seeds.
Heirloom corn - Instead of buying a lot I only bought one pack [100 seeds] and will save seeds from this year to eliminate that cost next year.
Doing that with a lot of my seeds.
Buying enough to go to my family or chickens yet, saving seeds from this crop for free crops next year.
I just ordered from there last night. It sure gets the juices flowing.

Also ordered at Baker Creek.
And got a few more off Ebay.

I'm done till potatoe seed time.

I hope to buy some of these in the future.............

Scroll down to see an amazing amount of flowers...........
http://www.sequimrareplants.com/plant list.html​

 

[Greg Richardson]

McClendon's in Woodinville has 20 pound wild bird seed for $5.00.
I love to throw that in their straw so they have to search for it. Gives them something to do in the rain.

 

[justbugged]

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I so get the puppy thing. I am at a point that I really don't like baby puppies. The damage and all the clean up, is often way to high just for a bit of cute. I would much rather take an older house trained dog. I make just enough with the Yorkie puppies, that I guess that I will put up with it for at least the rest of the year.

I think that it is really crumby that they hired 3 of you for one spot. It could be their way of making sure that they don't have to pay benefits. When I hired on at Wells Fargo they would only allow a teller to work for 17 hours a week. That was so that they didn't have to pay benefits to us. It worked for me at the time, because DH has benefits. I know that a lot of the tellers needed the benefits, but it just wasn't an option. I do know that it didn't go over very well with the customers. They lost at least half of their customers in the first 2 years that they were in the Portland area.

 

[justbugged]

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ducks like water, which when mixed with dirt makes lovely mud, which they like EVEN BETTER!!

Depends on what you consider messy I guess? Chickens scratch in the flower beds, so am constantly sweeping dirt and stuff off the porch... Ducks like to do what we call Drill Billing into the ground, everywhere. They aerate your yard quite well. They eat a lot of slugs. I love my duckies I would miss them terribly if I didn't have them! Did I mention they love slugs?? My flower bed in the chicken yard had the healthiest bee balm EVER. No slugs touched it.

are you on FB? I posted some pictures of the muck the ducks have made in the chicken yard.. It will go away when stuff dries up, but in the meantime it's gross... lol!

I have 5 acres here...the duckles will have their own space and get as poopy and dirty as they want.
Just like the pen of Guineas...man can they drive you insane in a short amount of time...until the Java are big enought o go in their pen, the runner babies will have a place to be in the mud with a built in muck pond.
Probably be dried up by the time they are ready to go out.

Jbear:: show me some good feeder and waterer set ups for duckies...

T-Hi::: Need to give DD a BIG art catalog...will sva eit and give to her when you come down this way again...
ANYONE:: How on earth do you tell a male from female duckling so I can save a black female ??

Chickielady is so tired of mucking pens and adding sand and gravel, but boy is it nice when done.

JB::: I would build the cinderblock boxes on that step edge all around the new concrete ! Wow would that ever be nice, and then let the water rise all it wants !!

The plan is to bring in top soil and raise the the grass level to the lower level of concrete. I also don't have enough sunlight to raise vegetables there. I planted a willow tree just across from the patio. I love that willow tree. I just wish that it was in the corner of the yard, and not where it is. I didn't know that there were so many different kinds of willow trees. We have to trim the tree back several times a year in order to be able to mow the lawn. I got a new chain for my chainsaw tonight. I am going to prune some of the trees around the yard. It should be fun. I am not sure that I can take the cherry tree sown without DH.

 

[Ogress]

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Only if I bring in lots of soil! I do have a fair number of raised beds though.

I usually plant only part of each packet, and save the rest for the following year. I should try saving seed. I had a bunch of tomatoes re-seed themselves. They looked pretty, but tasted like mud.

I tried growing corn here a few times, but I've not had much luck with it. The ears are always tiny.

My wish list has a lot of lettuce in it. I have a few cold-frames that I grow the cutting varieties in, and I grow in haning baskets as well.

I think I need to eliminate some lettuce and some of the tomatoes as well. Maybe the eggplant too. Never tried growing that before. DD loves eggplant. I find it rather blah. I love radishes, but maybe one packet of each variety is fine. Beans and peas ... we can never grow too many of those. I froze a bunch of peas last summer, and DS snacks on them straight from the freezer. He hides in the pantry when he eats them, and I find the spilled peas every time I sweep in there.

I'm hoping for a good blueberry crop this year. I am tempted to take out my plum and apple trees and replace them with more blueberrins as the plums and apples draw in the bears, but last fall the bears discovered the blueberries, so now I am afraid that they are doomed too.

Those flowers are lovely. When I lived in Woodinville, I grew a lot of beautiful flowers, but I have given up on them out here. If the weather does not get them, the elk and deer do. Whatever they don't eat, the ript up and throw across my yard in disgust.

 

[justbugged]

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WOW! You have lot of area to plant?

I'll give you an example how I eliminated some seeds.
Heirloom corn - Instead of buying a lot I only bought one pack [100 seeds] and will save seeds from this year to eliminate that cost next year.
Doing that with a lot of my seeds.
Buying enough to go to my family or chickens yet, saving seeds from this crop for free crops next year.
I just ordered from there last night. It sure gets the juices flowing.

Also ordered at Baker Creek.
And got a few more off Ebay.

I'm done till potatoe seed time.

I hope to buy some of these in the future.............

Scroll down to see an amazing amount of flowers...........
http://www.sequimrareplants.com/plant list.html

Have you ordered from the Sequim Rare Plants? I normally get most of my perennials from The Big Dipper Nursery. They are located between Black Diamond and Enumclaw. The place used to be named Boondocks. I have heard that the plants they ship are rather small. But I have always been happy with the plants that follow me home from there.

 

[Ogress]

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It's pretty lousy ... especially for such a short, seasonal job. I had wanted to get in doing taxes, took courses last year, but the offices with openings were too far away. I did not re-take them for this year so I had to apply for a receptionist position. They do offer insurance for all their employees, you can pick it a-la-carte, and the prices looked pretty good. I don't need it as I am insured with DH's plan, but since they offer it, I was told by someone that Microsoft (DH's Employer) requires that spouses take insurance through their employers. My friend had a part time holiday job and was forced to quit because of the policy. I'm hoping that they they have since changed the policy in regards to seasonal workers. Even though the insurance is fairly priced, the hours are so little, I would end up paying the tax place! Contemplating going back into my old field, (pharmaceutical research), but jobs are scarce, I've been out too long (12 years), I don't want to work full time, and I have zero desire to commute.

 

[Greg Richardson]

Justbugged. No, haven't ordered from them. Saw their advertisement in a gardening mag. Love their unbelievable selection.