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[jbear]

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Welcome back RW Hey could you please teach me are there other kinds of roosters besides the male ones??

I have many for sale so its habit to post it and well.... If i don't on Craigslist i get the "I want that hen" emails even if it clearly states roosters in the title

lololol!! I KNOW!! Since I am new to CL selling, I had used the word 'cockerel' ... and got too many hen questions.. oopsies. hah!

 

[Kaneke]

agreed -- and they need shade -- woods around or very near them -- they want to be under fir trees

 

[Kaneke]

if you know what blueberries look like, the evergreen huckleberries are quite similar -- they have small oval shaped leaves with pointed ends, not quite as long as the end joint of your little finger (about the size of boxwood leaves, smaller than privet)

the bushes range from 3 to 6 feet tall; the blue varieties look very much like blueberries, but the taste is different; the black varieties are longer and oval shaped instead of being fat and round

they grow best on the coast, or where the wild rhododendrons grow .. they want an acid soil and well drained but frequently watered soil

the deciduous huckleberries (I've always called them red huckleberries) should be getting ripe now, I picked some up at Arlington a couple of weeks ago .. yes, they want to grow out of fallen logs and stumps, and are VERY difficult to get started (my opinion)

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Sure, let's do it!

OK, you gonna tell her, or do I?

Having a disorganized day, I'll tell her when I talk to her later today to see whether there's any good gossip from her dinner with our uncle yesterday.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

How interesting about the huckleberries. I knew there were blue and red. But I didn't know what the difference. I find it interesting because I know an area here where there are lots and lots of red but very few blue. Then about 40 -50 miles away they are nearly all blue with hardly a red to be seen. There is not a real big change in the area like going to the coast or something like that just 2 different spots in the high country. I am in no way disagreeing with what was said about the types just pointing out what I have seen in my area.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I have a lot of lilac suckers I need to clean out- Pink Elizabeth, Will Klager, and President Grevy, mostly, the first two from the Hulda Klager Lilac Garden. Plus some plain old Syringa vulgaris. This is so very not the time of year to move them, though (they do best while blooming/during blooming season). I'd be interested in a trade (do you have Bantam Sumatras or just LF?

) but getting them from here to there would be a trick.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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The deciduous blues are a fire plant; you find them in areas where it's burned 3-10 years earlier. Reds are forest edge plants, and like old stumps in second-growth. Evergreen Huckleberries need a bit more rtainfall and grow in closed-canopy forests; the classic Evergreen Huckleberry forest floor associates are Western Rhododendron, Sword Fern, Salal, and low Oregon Grape under doug fir (or balsam fir as you get further north- the biggest patch of those I ever got to pick in was under balsam fir and red cedar, up on Saltspring Island), western hemlock, and western red cedar.

The best berries are on the deciduous blues, up around Mt. Adams. Give your kids a five gallon bucket, tell them to watch out for bears, and let 'em loose (not my kids: me. My husband's a preacher's kid from Texas, and my kids have never dug clams or picked huckleberries).

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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If you have nice shade, the evergreens will do- the deciduous blues are tricky in Puget Sound, they need a long unbroken dormancy to fruit properly.

 

[orpingtonbabies]

Hey! Not sure if i already posted here but I'm about 25 min. from White Salmon

 

[Kaneke]

and if you want to look up huckleberries on the internet, look for Vaccinium .. I think specifically Vaccinium ovatum (evergreen, blue and black) and Vaccinium parvifolium (deciduous red)

for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_ovatum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_parvifolium

and this I think is the deciduous black:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_membranaceum

probably what we ate in Montana, and what my cousins would bring home from hunting trips on Mount Hood


all the chickens would love them, but they are too delicious to share ...