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[FirewifeJess]

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Ooh, that's a great job! I could get a lot of calcium and iron out of those just by drinking the stock! I'll put a few leaves in my stock today! Thanks for that idea

 

[Chickielady]

Hey they put the stitches in my head and it wasn't numb so I think I might could handle that.

If I had my druthers, I'd druther have someone else stick me when I was not expecting it......SURPRISE !!!

 

[Chickielady]

I am so jealous! What a fabulous harvest! I have no luck with beans in my yard and I don't know why. I had sugar snap peas coming out of my ears, but the 25 feet of scarlet runner beans that I planted on an adjoining fence haven't given me a single bean. The flowers just fall off. I planted a few other bush beans in another spot, and while they have given me a few beans they have hardly grown. Oh well, the chicken project has been such a distraction this summer that the garden has been mostly ignored for the past 2 months.

Jennifer

Sounds like you need BEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZ

Maybe try to plant some flowers or shrubs bees like to attract them to your garden ?

 

[Chickielady]

Someone was looking for free roosters?
A friend took a few hens from me tonight and left a big red rooster. Hes about 6 months (she says, and thinks rhode Island Red?)

Hes in a cage right now on my porch...Id like him gone tomorrow

Well that sounds like a rotten trade !!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

I am going to try and get this photo onto here that was posted on FB. this is of the Table Mtn fire. It is an awesome photo, but terrifying all at the same time:

Oh it looks evil !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

I do like Bush's Baked Beans, but I absolutely adore Ranch Style Beans. I'm lucky that my local QFC carries them (must be more Texans around here!). I just wish my husband ate either of them. It's kind of hard to eat a whole can of beans on your own! I cook a lot of green beans because he will eat them (and I love fresh green beans), but he won't touch any other kind. I miss pintos, red beans, butter beans, and even lima beans.*sigh*

Jennifer

They are far too expensive, last I looked a can of Buch's baked beans cost upwards of $3 a can !
$2. something on sale...
For that price, you can make a 1-2 gallon pot full from scratch, and freeze in single serving containers.
There is a few web sites on here that have original recipes for commercial foods, and like A-1 sauce, Skipper's tartar sauce, and so on.
You can print out these recipes & change things or subsitute things that you are allergic to.
Pretty cool.

* I printed out a few as DH is in love with Arby's sauces, both the horsie sauce & the other sauce they serve.*

 

[Chickielady]

We miss butter beans too. I have not had any since we left SC. They are best on rice with a few slices of tomatoes.

Big giant Lima beans ?
YUM !!!

 

[Chickielady]

Anyone pump water out of a stream?
Any info you can give me on the pump you use, cost, etc be great.

In order to do my garden right next year I need to have enough water.
Water costs here are rediculous as not only we paying for water but monthly fees for maintence to the pump house, dam, etc.

This is an over flow stream from the lake which runs past my house so the water taken from the stream isn't effecting fish or water needed.
Will be attaching the hose from pump to a drip line once it reaches garden area which is about 150 ft from stream.
The other factor is the pump has to have enough lift to go about 20ft up path from creek till it's flat ground rest of the way.

Try a RAM pump.....and we have built 2 systems that would work great for you, which you can see when you get out here in a few weeks, or I can send you pics to your e-mail ?

 

[SadieSue]

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Doesn't it? Every time I see it, it looks like a monster creeping up over the horizon, evil fingers perched on top of the hills peering over... It's a fantastic photo, but very, very frightening.

 

[Chickielady]

Bean Soup with kale:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/bean-soup-with-kale/

Mom & dad make a great taco soup and garnish with sliced avacado, chopped cilantro & squeeze of lime kinda like this one, and you can use chicken instead of beef:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/taco-s...e11=stews&e8=Quick Search&event10=1&e7=Recipe

This looks good...kinda like Bush's baked beans but with collard greens !

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/billys...rd greens&e8=Quick Search&event10=1&e7=Recipe

Greens & beans chilie ?

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-c...ick Search&event10=1&e7=Recipe Search Results

You can chop the greens and freeze them for individual servings for later throughout the winter.