Keep harping about the climate change I know we need to do more than we are.. Owning the chickens is a step to greener our gardens do well to help but we need to keep doing more and more
Thank you Penny, I couldn't agree with you more!
Our poor dog who's been almost constantly panting for the past four days, in spite of everything we can think of to help her cool down, agrees with you too. So do my poor horses, who have never experienced worse than a few 90's days in a row, and now are drinking 20 gallons of water a day, stuck in the barn because of the past four days of 99, 100, 104, and 112, with 85 to 90 at night so no nighttime cooling and no shade out in the pastures. Our chickens are doing OK so far, their coop and yard is constantly shaded, and we replace their water with colder water several times a day. This kind of heat has NEVER before happened here!
People who choose to believe that this insane weather here, which is normally one of the wettest and mildest areas, last year's wildfires when I had to evacuate my horses, the ongoing drought in the southwest, increased hurricanes in the gulf states that threatened my Mom last year in her Florida assisted-living facility, floods in midwest states that wrecked the corn crop of some of my relatives in Iowa, and earthquakes in flat states like Oklahoma, are not caused by human activity, especially drilling and burning fossil fuels, are kidding themselves and choosing to ignore reality.
Mr. Dog and I try to do as much as individual people can, for example I bought an electric car last year for commuting, and now only use my F-250 gas-guzzler for towing. This has worked out great so far, but if other people continue to ignore reality, our source of power which is predominantly hydro here, will get worse if drought conditions continue to spread.
Sorry for such a long discourse on climate change, in a discussion that is supposed to be about gardening.
Maybe I should have shut up, and taken this discussion to another thread.
And, maybe as well, the people in this gardening discussion who believe Covid is fake/ created in a lab to be a bioweapon/ an excuse to get us all microchipped via a fake vaccine to track all of our activities, should have taken their opinions to the discussion about Covid.
Done with this, back to gardening:
Has anyone else ever eaten asparagus frond tips like this? If so, how did YOU like them? Have any recipes? I can't believe I am the ONLY one who ever tried this, yet there really is not a lot of info about other tardz like mee who tried this. I think these could really make a nice addition to a salad TBH.
Suggestions, comments, Ideas?
When we first moved here, we were so fortunate that there was an existing asparagus patch. For several years, we got huge harvests of lovely, huge asparagus spears. But they don't last forever, apparently there are male and female shoots - the males produce large, wide shoots you want to eat, and the females stay thin and go to seed more quickly. After 12 years here, we get less and less big edible spears, and more and more thin ones that go to seed quickly.
The top shoots are still great to eat! I usually pickle them and use them later in some recipes, or sometimes sauté or grill them along with the bigger spears, or just add them to other sautéed veggies, like spinach or summer squashes. They are just as delicious as the big spears, but my patch needs more new ones planted.
I decided to graft them to the one that had been broody the longest. These BLRW girls are the easiest broody hens I've had as far as handling them with chicks goes. I also got my "dealer" to bring me some strawberry runners.
LOL, I wish I had a dealer who handles both addictions, baby chicks as well as plants!
What about pasteurized milk? We often have extra milk that goes bad before we use it all. I have just been dumping it down the drain. Is there any benefit to using pasteurized milk on the garden or in the compost bin?
Nope. The pasteurization process has done away with a lot of the most beneficial crawlies and will just sour your compost.
That article was really interesting, but it mostly stressed milk as a benefit when it comes to soil microorganisms. Pasteurization might eliminate those, but what about just the basic benefit of milk as a source of calcium? The article found that the greatest benefit of milk was when it was diluted, so adding old milk to your compost might be worth experimenting with.
If we as a society truly want to help people, then we need to quit with the stigmatism of a conviction. I see you had a drug conviction? Yes I did, are you clean, yes I am, do you plan on staying clean? yes I do. good, do you want the job? YES>>> I DO. great, you start monday.
If a person makes a mistake, make them pay for it, but once they paid their debt to society, it's DONE, you need to now accept them BACK into society and not hold that mistake against them forever. There are exceptions of course but in general, we really need to get off our high horses and get over ourselves.
The doctors and nurses I worked with were top rate, but it does eventually come down to the individual person to change their life. It was heartbreaking for me to see our patients released back to the exact same living situation where they were using drugs and getting into trouble. I think it would be very hard to change your life if you are sent right back to where you were before your hospital stay.
Most addicted people would like nothing more than to get free of their addiction, but's really hard and very few have access to the right help they need.
It was funny to watch though!
As long as no one gets nasty I think it's all good.
