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[HoneysuckleHills]

Earlier today, I was baking and found myself one egg short.
Went out to the coop and, sure enough, one of my girls had just laid another perfect egg.
I like this chicken keeping! I really do!

Now, a cup of tea and my seed catalogs. You all have got me inspired!

 

[justbugged]

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I have a greenhouse that I bought from Harbor Freight. I think it is 6x8 feet. It is very small, but I have gotten creative with the space. Right now it full of geraniums in the GH. I also have some salad greens and broccoli plants growing in the GH. In the past I have used heating pads that I got from goodwill to heat the seed trays. It worked and it was very cheap. The greenhouse has the thermal panels in an aluminium frame. DH finally wired the exterior of the GH, because very time the wind would blow the panels would go flying. I have had the GH now long enough that I need to replace the thermal panels. We have all ready replaced the panels in the door. DH also modified the door so that it swings like a real door. It used to slide back in forth.The aluminium can get very sticky and it is a pain in the tush to use a door like that. The thermal panels are 33.00 each at Home Depot. I am going to need at least 16 more panels to replace the original panels that are no longer in good condition. I really want more greenhouse space, but then I still don't know where I am going to plant everything. The catalog came from the Tomato Growers. I don't have a clue how am going to grow all the tomato plants that I have picked out this year.

 

[justbugged]

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I love it when thing work out for you.

 

[justbugged]

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Okay the top greenhouse would so work. I now have greenhouse envy.

 

[Illia]

Good luck piling the dough it would take for those glass panes. . .


For now I'm sticking to my enormous pile of PVC and good supply of plastic visqueen.

 

[justbugged]

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I could so make the seed starter thing. I even have the lights for it. All I would need is the 1/4 rock.

 

[justbugged]

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The wonder board and heat tape should work really well together. I love the idea of the wonder board. The cement board should hold the heat extremely well.

Edited; for spelling and It isn't easy to type with puppies on each side of me.

 

[justbugged]

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I've honestly never tried that, so I wouldn't know what to say on it.

I would go ahead and try to start a yeast sponge. As long as you have it in your house, it should be warm enough. Wild yeast can be different in every home.

 

[Greg Richardson]

CL Just to be clear those links and pictures were to another persons blog.
I just bought LED flexible rope lights this Christmas.
Mine don't say how many watts on the tag.
already disposed of the packages.
I think they are the 12ft ones I bought.
I looked on line and found 18ft ones and they were 18 watts.
So I'm very happy this won't cost me much at all to do this.
Plus these are rated for water use so if something went wrong I wouldn't need to worry about water.

 

[justbugged]

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We've yet to try it in WA, but yes, we'll be doing a lot of three sisters this year. Very excited for it too.

Three sisters is an ancient method of growing vine beans, squash, and corn in one crop. The old method of doing it is by building mounds and growing each very closely to each other, per mound. The beans give off a lot of nitrogen, which corn and squash hunger for, while the squash help block out sunlight to the ground, preventing weeds from growing. The corn helps to keep the beans up without the need of a pole. (the beans grow up the corn stalks). It's a wonderful cycle and also prevents mono-cropping issues that lead to pests.

cool ! I am not doing corn though, but I do 3 or 4 kinds of pole beans and climbing peas...think that will work ? We do not have open tilled feilds here, we have the 100 acre wood, thick forst and we in the center..so all the garden is in raised beds.
Oh, and spied my monster gopher is back in town !!!

I need a big gopher eating cat, that will not eat my chickens !

I have a pair of semi feral rat gofer eating tom cats that you can have. The boys are from the same litter and still seem to like each other. I would even bring them out to you.