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[Rainwolf]

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well yes if you only want 20 seeds and the package has 60-100 seeds... then ya split the packet rather then 2 people buying 2 packets and only using 1/2 the seeds.... etc etc..
I'm making my want list atm and so far...
Got to the tomatoes and can't pick a few favs/new... I want to try em all! so here is up to tomatoes...

Green Globe Artichike 75 seeds
Kabouli Black Garbanzo Bean 25 seeds
Dragon Tongue Bush Bean 40-60 Seeds
White Rice Bush Bean 40-60 seeds
Cylindra or Formanova Beet 250 seeds 55 Days
Nero Di Toscana Cabbage 300 seeds 60 Days
Zwolsche Krul Celery 200 seeds
Michihli Cabbage 200 seeds 70 Days
Parisian Pickling Cucumber 25-35 seeds 60 Days
Oregon Sugar Pod II Snow Pea 100 seeds
Sugar Ann Snap Pea 100 seeds
Red Cheese Pepper 25 seeds
Red Mini Bell 25 seeds
Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach 250 seeds 50 Days
Crookneck Squash - Early Golden Summer 20 seeds 50 Days
Table Queen Acorn Squash 20-35 seeds 80 Days
Omaha Pumpkin 20-35 seeds 80 Days
Winter Luxury Pie Pumpkin 20-35 seeds
Five Color Silver Beet Chard 100-150 seeds 60 Days
Tomatillo Purple 30 seeds
Seattle Best of All -red tomato 25 seeds 80 Days


Remember this is a want list... I can no way afford all of them so by splitting packets with others it brings prices down to where I might get most of my want list lol...
some have so few seeds it might not be able to share but some have a few hundred!

That makes sense. I will have to look into to this. I do know that my fantasy list was a bit different, and I may simply not have enough room here for everything that I want.

Its not really a "fantasy" list its just stuff I want to try! It might not work but all things above except the tomato and tomatillo, I've never grown before. some things like cabbage I've never been able to grow since we have some either cut worms or cabbage worms of some sort that always destroys my cabbages.

I am going to make a aquaponic system to grow things in. so some things I want to try in the garden and in the aquaponic bed to see what grows best where... other things I want to try in the aquaponic bed because they won't grow or survive in my dirt...

And this list gets edited as I learn more about stuff available... some get removed others get added etc... Its very fluid until I order

 

[Ogress]

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I don't heat mine at all. If the sun is out, with all the windows, it is warm even it it is cold outside. Crummy days the chickens hang out indoors more than out, and there are enough of them to keep the temp tolerable. Nothing has ever frozen in there, even when it has dropped to 19 overnight. The run stays relatively warm overnight as well. Last week we had a hard freeze with overnight temps hovering around 20 and most days not getting above freezing. Puddles in the yard and outside buckets of water were frozen solid for the top several inches, but in the run the unheated waterer had only the thinnest crust of ice; and no ice at all inside the coop.

I've been to your house. It's fabulous, for sure. But you mean to tell me you don't turn the heat on AT ALL?

Ooops - I did not read that carefully. I do heat my "people" coop. We ave geothermal, but it still costs a bundle to run the pumps (2 - but usually only one is running unless it is beow freezing outside, then both are running and my bill can reach in the $700's!!!! That's a big change from the typical $70 - $150 summer bill. Hanging the laundry to dry reduces the bill by $40 each month. I flipped the pumps on October 30. We keep the house at 68 all the time because in-house temp changes occur slowly with Geothermal. When the winds howell the BIG room is really chilly, but the basement is always nice.

I want a wood stove. We could probably wait another month to heat the house, and tur it off a month or two early, just burnng wood when we need to get the chill out.

When we had forced air, we did 65 overnight and when no one was around if we went somewhere for the holidays we'd drop it to 50 (but killed houseplants). 68 - 70 when we were up and about.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I thought she was talking about her "chicken coop"

Yeah, me too, but maybe her first sentence is about her home. She's got a lot of windows!
Your home sounds nice and warm.
Nothing like a wood stove for down to the bone warmth!
I love mine.
And, thanks to the help from my BYC buddies, I now can keep my wood stove going all night!

AWESOME glad we could help. Right Greg.

See since I have a big stove and small house (there is a reason) I run my stove at the lowest safe/clean burning and that just also happens to be our comfort zone.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Well considering the best we got this summer was 17/23 and most of the tyme it was12-14 / 23. Since August the best I recall was 6-8 So it was time. the 12 short straws went to town today. Red Rooooster was there, she saw my birds and I don't care if she shares her opinionof my birds.
After dropping the chickens off at the sale I went and sat along trying to sell some of my metal. Finally at 2:30 I decided I was doing nothing but freezing. On a good note one of the guys who works at the sale stopped where I was and told me that my birds sold high.

What is your Auctions take of the sale price? The Enumclaw Sales Pavilion keeps a third of the sale price. It would have to be worth the full hour of driving from here to there. At least I could stop by for a visit, while I would be in the neighborhood.

These two auctions down here are in a real nasty battle against each other. The one at yard birds takes 20% and I was told the one up coal creek takes 15%. RedRooster Farm told me that she gets more for LF up coal creek and more for bantam at yard birds. I know that from what I have heard it sounds like the locals prefer the yard birds sale.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Birchen Boy is the one that nobody likes, and I think he's gorgeous. He's really being picked on, specially by "Beau", who seems to have taken over as "Top Man". The ladies simply adore him (course the others aren't "loose" yet). We'll see what happens tomorrow. Maybe it's because they have been without a roo for about 10 days now - I sold the BLRW when I knew I was getting the Icees. So they haven't had a man around

I'm going to wait a bit - I'd really like Birchen to stay - maybe things will settle down. But, I don't want a roo if he's not accepted - makes no sense.

Rabbits: We have a little Florida White buck (easy keeper, and makes dense, good dress out babies) which we cross with a huge Champagne D'Argent. The babies are fast growers and meaty. We also have 2 Black Otter Rex's (for the skins as well as meat) and one Broken Rex. All around good meat producers.

The freezer is almost full - just a couple of Cornish roos to add and we are set.

Life is good

I am having a heck of a time finding anyone with standard rex around here, there are mini rex everywhere I look.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I'll give ya 4 bucks for one of yer roosters. Oh yeah and that is processed and packaged too right ! ! ! !

 

[Ogress]

Another thing that I found helps with the utility bill is turning off the "Wrinkle Shield" on the drier. Items here go from Mt. Washme, to Mt. Foldme, so wrinkle shield is rather pointless. (I pull my own from the drier but leave the kids to fold their own).

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I know a guy that will turn the boys into capons. That gives them more time to get bigger. They won't crow, and they will stay tender, once they are capons. The guy is just south of the Rustler's place.

Would that be the guy from the show who wore a cowboy hat? That would be Albie and he is North of me. Just south of Chehalis.

 

[VelvettFog]

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Depends on if I can run the pellet stove or not

No burn ban = 74 down stairs -- makes it about 62 upstairs.

Burn ban in effect (like for the last two weeks or so)

= 68 down stairs -- makes it about 72 upstairs. I can't sleep when it's that warm.

 

[hallerlake]

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Day time 68 (though Mr H prefers 75)
night time 60
My orchids need cool night temps for bud set.

I leave mine at 68 too but in the nighttime I drop it down to 50.
We sleep better that way.
Plus it saves so much on the electric bill.
Funny thing is, with the wood stove, the thermometer might read 68 but it feels like a warmer warm than central heating.

Mr H has problems staying asleep. He wakes up and starts worrying. He gets up and does work in his office. He would NOT like 50 degrees. Our bedroom is in the basement, so it's about five degrees colder than upstairs.