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[justbugged]

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I have 6 post of orange variegated callas. I divided them last year. This was the first year that one of the pots bloomed for me. I have wintered them over in the garage without any problems. When it gets in to the mid to low 20's I do close up the garage as much as I can, and run a space heater overnight. So far it's worked. The biggest problem I have with the hanging geraniums is that I can't figure out how to water them without a big mess.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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PINK ??? SILLY GIRLY make an AVATAR !!! I am not secure enough to wear / drive PINK. It's a good color.

 

[justbugged]

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What a blessing.

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

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PINK ??? SILLY GIRLY make an AVATAR !!! I am not secure enough to wear / drive PINK. It's a good color.

The pink is gone for this season!
(Besides, I did put a pink border around my avatar!

Thanks, justbugged for the info.
My garage stays pretty warm.
I would imagine they don't need much watering.

 

[justbugged]

I'm beat, so off to bed for me tonight.

 

[TrystInn]

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At 41F, its chilly up here on Whidbey Island, too. We've been turning on the infrared heat lamps in the Bantie Barn to keep our 2 month old chicks warm. Don't want the silly things suffocating themselves trying to stay warm with just their body heat.

 

[justbugged]

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PINK ??? SILLY GIRLY make an AVATAR !!! I am not secure enough to wear / drive PINK. It's a good color.

The pink is gone for this season!
(Besides, I did put a pink border around my avatar!

Thanks, justbugged for the info.
My garage stays pretty warm.
I would imagine they don't need much watering.

Your right about the callas not needing much water, the geraniums take a lot more than I think to give them.

It's more about the hassle of standing under a wire hanging basket, and not drowning myself and the rest of the garage. I'm fairly certain that I shouldn't water the refrigerator, table saw,air compressor, or the freezer.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I hope so, too.

Thanks, ma'am. I'm making lists about what I need to do tomorrow while waiting for the Dark Night Vicodin* to kick in, then going to bed and floating off.

I hope.





*The prescription for thirty was filled in January; I have 25 left. I would have used more except they don't touch broken rib pain.

 

[SadieSue]

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That's AWESOME!!!!!!

Sure is!

 

[Ogress]

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I took my son to see that when it played in town. We went home and ordered chicks, and found a place in town to buy our free-range eggs until our chicks were old enough to lay. Even orgnic, "free range" eggs from a mass producer are not raised in conditions that I would find humane.

I found a post on a different BYC thread about 6 mo ago. A woman somewhere in the midwest responded to an add for 1 year old organic free-range laying hens, $10 each. She was horrified by what she saw, a bare dirt "pasture" stuffed completely full of de-beaked birds with almost no room to move! As the egg carton stated, the birds were cage free (though free-range is debatable), and fed an organic diet. I'm sure that in such crowded conditions, a lot of what they must have been eating is chicken poo!

Truly free range (or at least spacious coop and run) is far more important to me than organic these days,

I hate the organic label, and it is a sin that organic farmers (and thereby organic consmers) have to pay a penalty tax for not adding chemicals to their fields, animals, etc while the big factory farms pumping all those chemicals on the land and poisoning everyone and everything are subsidised by our tax dollars. I do try and buy from people who grow their stuff naturally but don't pay that penalty tax.