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[Zgoatlady]

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I sell hatching eggs if you need anything that I have just let me know.

 

[blueducklings]

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Thats where Im at! I need to get more eggs!!!

You guys are in the same boat as me...pretty soon you'll want to get a BIGGER incubator. One that holds 300 eggs.

This is stage 4 hatchititus. No cure.
It might even morph into a bilateral-hatchititus-osmosis. That will require quarantine and a lot of tuff-love intervention with straight jackets involved. And they ain't got it at walmart. But they do have it in pink.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Oh, well then maybe I need to grab JB and drive over there when they are ready for canning season, and Pears too.
Our apricots in California are usually ready to pick/eat/can the end of April !!!
But not this year, they are suffering from wet & cold just like here...maybe another month they will be ready.

Gulp!!! Help me! Help me! Chickie is going to grab me.

I would love to go with you to get peaches and apricots this year.

Maybe when you all go you can grab some to bring back for me too

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Gulp!!! Help me! Help me! Chickie is going to grab me.

I would love to go with you to get peaches and apricots this year.

Be careful JB. I heard she just cut a bunch of willow switches too. I'd be covering my bottom if I were you.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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I always feed medicated chick starter, than with grower I switch back and forth..

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Your are on. I can't wait to get them apricots. I also love canned pears and peaches. I am going to need to find a gasket for my pressure canner this year.

I'm hopping in the car with you!

I have a big pressure canner, no gasket. I have 6 or 8 thinga-ma-bobs that have to be screwed down to lock the lid in place. I've got a giant kitchen and we can have a canning party! (or even a gianter kitchen if we borrow the one at the Sallal Grange in North Bend).

Oh good idea...

 

[blueducklings]

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Gulp!!! Help me! Help me! Chickie is going to grab me.

I would love to go with you to get peaches and apricots this year.

Maybe when you all go you can grab some to bring back for me too

Gas prices are going to hit $7 by summer. These peaches better ripen quick.
Lots more folks are planting their own vegetables this year in anticipation of the vege price hikes later this year. Vege prices have already gone up for us. Way up.
I'm going to have to grow more so I can use it at my restaurant too. Can't hurt to have more. Onions are cheap though. $6 for 50lbs. Usually goes up to $40 in April. Dunno.
I'll be growing some more leeks so I'll be set for winter as well. And rocket. I love that stuff. Yummy and grows like a weed. The hail just killed all my runner beans. Will have to buy more from Irish eyes.
We need to do a plant swap soon. Maybe in MAY?

 

[Zgoatlady]

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I can send you some eggs if you want just PM me

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Everything's going up this year; cattle prices, including breeding stock, are through the roof. The combination of high fuel prices and bad weather over the past four years is going to make everyone feel the pinch. I wish I had the equipment, time and energy to put in two or three acres of sweet corn for sale, but that's a young person's game. Not to mention how much more fence I'd have to build!

We're filling both gas tanks on my son's truck for his birthday, although we're going to do it long before the actual date to keep from running into the Memorial Day weekend price rise.

Speaking of Memorial Day, we've been gardening in Western Washington for six generations now, and we never put beans or corn in until Memorial day; the ground's too cold and the weather's too chancy to do it earlier. West of the Mountains, warm weather crops are always a gamble, unless you've got a protected microclimate or a small enough garden to tunnel everything. There's a 10-11 year weather cycle between cold, wet and warm, dry and we're about nine years into the cold, wet part; the La Nina conditions in the Northern Pacific just magnifies that problem.

(Grumpy and pessimistic about the weather as happens when I get caught out in hailstorms twice in three days).

EDIT: Plant swap is a grand idea. I have species Siberian Iris, and need to dig Lilac "Pink Elizabeth" and "Hans Klager" starts, plus a bunch of root bound Geranium cinerium in 4" pots and potted named SBD iris.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Maybe when you all go you can grab some to bring back for me too

Gas prices are going to hit $7 by summer. These peaches better ripen quick.
Lots more folks are planting their own vegetables this year in anticipation of the vege price hikes later this year. Vege prices have already gone up for us. Way up.
I'm going to have to grow more so I can use it at my restaurant too. Can't hurt to have more. Onions are cheap though. $6 for 50lbs. Usually goes up to $40 in April. Dunno.
I'll be growing some more leeks so I'll be set for winter as well. And rocket. I love that stuff. Yummy and grows like a weed. The hail just killed all my runner beans. Will have to buy more from Irish eyes.
We need to do a plant swap soon. Maybe in MAY?

Im so far behind in my garden and setting seeds. I keep asking my DH and sons what do you want me to plant and they say anything. But when I do that they wont eat half of it..