What did you do in the garden today?

[Paz]

Some places aren’t allowed any garden, and I know we know some places don’t allow rain barrels. I didn’t know I needed a permit for a yard sale, and a 5-y-o must have a permit for a lemonade stand.
Give it five years, and we will have taxes on our gardens/fruit trees and regulations on the size of our harvest.

No way that’s happening. Europe is much more regulated, and they don’t have garden taxes.

 

[Paz]

So, Tayson has left for his wedding and honeymoon, and he put me in charge of his plants, and I really hate bananas…

 

[esturtz27]

@Ascholten I have my A.c repair cert and epa permit. The Blackhawks I worked on in the army required we have it because the new hh Mikes had an ac unit. Kinda a lucky thing I keep updated.

You are dead on about Japanese made stuff. I only lost my last subaru because I was stopped and a lady on her phone in a van decided to park in my driver's side door. Thankfully no one was hurt but she did try to make me at fault hahaha! My husband's to work-mobile is a 2003 Baja subaru named bob(Bob the builder yellow) and it has 350k on it. We've only replaced the engine once lol and I rebuilt the transmission for fun and function.

Some people cull them right when they start to crow, others wait 12 to 14 weeks, or a bit longer to put a bit more meat on them. I would think TBH if you got them within the first 6 to 8 months, you should have plenty of meat on them and it should be pretty tender too. Each breed will be a bit different.

Aaron

These two we culled added about 8 pounds to the freezer. Not terrible dunno about taste yet...they are old english/cream legbar crosses

I’ve had a dog allergic to beef, and one allergic to beef and chicken. The sport dogs have allergies to vegetation on the properties. I also had a dog allergic to being normal. He meowed, and hopped like a grasshopper.
Benadryl helped with seasonal allergies for a while, but eventually a steroid shot was necessary. There was no help for the cat grasshopper. Too many diesel fumes I guess.

We found out our hound is allergic to Bermuda grass. His itch is the worst in the summer after a mow. Well just gives me a reason to plant all the veggies and fruit trees I can in the yard

 

[littledog]

We did get a bit of a surprise thunderstorm last night that dumped 1/2 inch of rain in an hour and a half. Overnight temperatures are cooling down to low 50’s for a few days. I’m just hoping the remaining summer crops finish up before the frost comes in a few weeks.

Yikes, we.ve had the temperature go down to high 70s from high 90s which is a relief, but still no rain, for several months!

stupid crap that does nothing but makes life more complicated, all with subscriptions that rape you for 5 dollars a month here, 8 dollars a month there, 9.96 a month for this, 11 dollars for this upgrade, on and on endlessly.

Ill go try again ... if it dont work this time then ill break out the vhs camera and try that way, at least I know that s41t works... back when user friendly was still a concern.

Agree, thank you! Love the things made in the past, that were designed to actually work right, and last.

Blackberries here are a horribly invasive nuisance here until the berries are ripe then everyone is out there picking them

Same here - our aim is to have goats, to keep the blackberries chewed down within fencing that's approved by the town, inside of the blackberry jungle surrounding our 2-acre property. With the side of our property that's next to the road, growing a wide barrier of blackberries, since people like to pick them, shielding us from the public.
So many complications, since part of our property is within the town and subject to rules like "only one acre per animal over 300 lbs allowed" "chain-link fences need to be green or black, no electric fences on the property-line, and property-line fences need to be approved by the town" and "no roosters allowed" ...but the back half of our property is non-regulated county jurisdiction, where anything goes. We already have the chicken yard and rooster yard on the non-regulated section, and our plan is to keep the current invasive blackberries along the road, the goat fence along the same line but down the slope so the goats take care of vines that grow through the fence (which will have an electric wire, since it will be away from the property line) and my hope is once it's all paid for and we're both retired (only a few years left to go) I can keep a driving pony in our pasture, turned out with our goats.

Which basically tells you, a new unit....cost 200 dollars to make, so you are basically just paying for your new unit up front.

If you got an older unit, and it's still running, then YES, you absolutely MUST keep that thing going for as long as you can, if you can find parts, and most of them are 'generic' stuff you do NOT have to have this specialized whurligigger, or fine honed kanuten flapper for THIS model only garbage, general stuff works across ALL of them and it's cheap.

Absolutely right! The 70's dishwasher that was here when we moved in finally pooped out after 10 years of our use (and probably 40 years before that) the 70's gas dryer is still going strong after we replaced a couple parts that we figured out from YouTube and bought from amazon, the gas stove is still perfect, and the 60's freezer is still going strong. Newer things like the coffee-maker tend to poop out within 5 years or so.

The millennial generation much like the boomers span a large age group( 39-27yrs old) many of us have learned or already learned the failures in materialism. None of us "millennial wives' are running around ecstatic about a new washing machine. Most of us are broke just like all the other generations.

Agree with you, absolutely. I'm a "late boomer" (1960) and I intensely dislike all the categories assumed of people just based on our age. People a few years older than me were protesting the Vietnam War and marching for civil rights, I was protesting violence against women and marching for the environment, and people a few years younger than me were protesting nukes and marching for LGTB rights. At the same time time, there were "Yuppies" my age who only cared about getting rich, and same for other boomers a few years older or younger than me.
I don't think we, or you, base our values on when we were born, though the things we consider most important have to do with what were the most concerning issues when we came of age.
I believe our values are based on whether we value justice and fairness for everybody, including the natural world, or selfishness for ourselves. And I think those things are, or can be, or should be, universal.
When I graduated from college, I felt cheated and ripped off, since my parents' generation had told me that getting a degree was pretty much a pass to work for some company, to commit to them for a lifetime safe lucrative carrier, and that was not the case. The best-paying companies' values were all about exploitation, wrecking human communities as well as natural habitats. I chose not to do anything like that, and work survival jobs (how naive I was, profiting the exploitive companies just as much, but for less pay.)
But at least paying back my student loans was a lot easier than it is now. Between Pell grants, part-time work-study jobs at my University, regular jobs delivering pizza and dishwashing at a restaurant, and a few loans, I graduated owing only 18000, and paid it off in three years.
Nobody today can do that! Students these days work every bit as hard as I did, but end up owing 10 times as much, with crazier interest rates on their loans so that making their payments every month results in stretched-out payments that never end. Even into their 40's and 50's.
So people should quit making fun of Millenials, making memes out of Avocado toast or parental basements, or childhood "participation trophies." WE TAUGHT THIS TO THEM! Out of our own innocent privileges,, or maybe not so much us, but believing what our own parents' generation taught us, way back when natural resources seemed endless and running out of them was considered unthinkable.
We need to start listening to millennials, and even more, the next group we are supposed to make fun of, "GEN-Z". These kids are more educated than we ever were, and due to social media (invented by us, let's not forget) communicate with each other all around the world, and have a better understanding of how we can make a better world than we ever did.

 

[esturtz27]

Yikes, we.ve had the temperature go down to high 70s from high 90s which is a relief, but still no rain, for several months!

Agree, thank you! Love the things made in the past, that were designed to actually work right, and last.

Same here - our aim is to have goats, to keep the blackberries chewed down within fencing that's approved by the town, inside of the blackberry jungle surrounding our 2-acre property. With the side of our property that's next to the road, growing a wide barrier of blackberries, since people like to pick them, shielding us from the public.
So many complications, since part of our property is within the town and subject to rules like "only one acre per animal over 300 lbs allowed" "chain-link fences need to be green or black, no electric fences on the property-line, and property-line fences need to be approved by the town" and "no roosters allowed" ...but the back half of our property is non-regulated county jurisdiction, where anything goes. We already have the chicken yard and rooster yard on the non-regulated section, and our plan is to keep the current invasive blackberries along the road, the goat fence along the same line but down the slope so the goats take care of vines that grow through the fence (which will have an electric wire, since it will be away from the property line) and my hope is once it's all paid for and we're both retired (only a few years left to go) I can keep a driving pony in our pasture, turned out with our goats.

Absolutely right! The 70's dishwasher that was here when we moved in finally pooped out after 10 years of our use (and probably 40 years before that) the 70's gas dryer is still going strong after we replaced a couple parts that we figured out from YouTube and bought from amazon, the gas stove is still perfect, and the 60's freezer is still going strong. Newer things like the coffee-maker tend to poop out within 5 years or so.

Agree with you, absolutely. I'm a "late boomer" (1960) and I intensely dislike all the categories assumed of people just based on our age. People a few years older than me were protesting the Vietnam War and marching for civil rights, I was protesting violence against women and marching for the environment, and people a few years younger than me were protesting nukes and marching for LGTB rights. At the same time time, there were "Yuppies" my age who only cared about getting rich, and same for other boomers a few years older or younger than me.
I don't think we, or you, base our values on when we were born, though the things we consider most important have to do with what were the most concerning issues when we came of age.
I believe our values are based on whether we value justice and fairness for everybody, including the natural world, or selfishness for ourselves. And I think those things are, or can be, or should be, universal.
When I graduated from college, I felt cheated and ripped off, since my parents' generation had told me that getting a degree was pretty much a pass to work for some company, to commit to them for a lifetime safe lucrative carrier, and that was not the case. The best-paying companies' values were all about exploitation, wrecking human communities as well as natural habitats. I chose not to do anything like that, and work survival jobs (how naive I was, profiting the exploitive companies just as much, but for less pay.)
But at least paying back my student loans was a lot easier than it is now. Between Pell grants, part-time work-study jobs at my University, regular jobs delivering pizza and dishwashing at a restaurant, and a few loans, I graduated owing only 18000, and paid it off in three years.
Nobody today can do that! Students these days work every bit as hard as I did, but end up owing 10 times as much, with crazier interest rates on their loans so that making their payments every month results in stretched-out payments that never end. Even into their 40's and 50's.
So people should quit making fun of Millenials, making memes out of Avocado toast or parental basements, or childhood "participation trophies." WE TAUGHT THIS TO THEM! Out of our own innocent privileges,, or maybe not so much us, but believing what our own parents' generation taught us, way back when natural resources seemed endless and running out of them was considered unthinkable.
We need to start listening to millennials, and even more, the next group we are supposed to make fun of, "GEN-Z". These kids are more educated than we ever were, and due to social media (invented by us, let's not forget) communicate with each other all around the world, and have a better understanding of how we can make a better world than we ever did.

I graduated culinary school only owing 30k (lots and lots of scholarships I worked my bum off for) but then just as I was going to get good pay (over that 15$ hr threshold) bam! 2008 the market goes splat and the restaurant industry got a fair hit. Our kitchen staff was halved, i went and managed a Starbucks till I joined the army. Everything I was promised due to my degree vanished. Now I have a little boy and I look at him knowing he will face bigger challenges than I did if he wants to have the old fashioned American dream...but I'm not going to teach him that dream. I'm going to try to mitigate the materialistic nature generally found here, teach him that it's okay to have a familial home, that new isn't better and that growing your own food has value, and to take care of.the planet. Yet, I have noticed a shift to these thoughts already but sometimes they seem to have a fake agenda.

 

[Happy Novogens]

Some places aren’t allowed any garden, and I know we know some places don’t allow rain barrels. I didn’t know I needed a permit for a yard sale, and a 5-y-o must have a permit for a lemonade stand.
Give it five years, and we will have taxes on our gardens/fruit trees and regulations on the size of our harvest.

Government overreach! This is supposed to be the land of the free. It's none of their *!* business whether someone has a garden or fruit trees or collects rain or has a 5yr old selling lemonade!

 

[NewBoots]

Same here - our aim is to have goats, to keep the blackberries chewed down within fencing that's approved by the town, inside of the blackberry jungle surrounding our 2-acre property. With the side of our property that's next to the road, growing a wide barrier of blackberries, since people like to pick them, shielding us from the public.
So many complications, since part of our property is within the town and subject to rules like "only one acre per animal over 300 lbs allowed" "chain-link fences need to be green or black, no electric fences on the property-line, and property-line fences need to be approved by the town" and "no roosters allowed" ...but the back half of our property is non-regulated county jurisdiction, where anything goes. We already have the chicken yard and rooster yard on the non-regulated section, and our plan is to keep the current invasive blackberries along the road, the goat fence along the same line but down the slope so the goats take care of vines that grow through the fence (which will have an electric wire, since it will be away from the property line) and my hope is once it's all paid for and we're both retired (only a few years left to go) I can keep a driving pony in our pasture, turned out with our goats.

Other than those complications, that sounds like my dream. I wish we had more land, I'd definitely have goats. We've always fantasized about having enough land to keep a couple or three mustangs as pets. Cart ponies would be awesome! A lady in our old neighborhood back in Portland had one and you'd see her driving around in her cart from time to time.

So people should quit making fun of Millenials, making memes out of Avocado toast or parental basements, or childhood "participation trophies." WE TAUGHT THIS TO THEM! Out of our own innocent privileges,, or maybe not so much us, but believing what our own parents' generation taught us, way back when natural resources seemed endless and running out of them was considered unthinkable.
We need to start listening to millennials, and even more, the next group we are supposed to make fun of, "GEN-Z". These kids are more educated than we ever were, and due to social media (invented by us, let's not forget) communicate with each other all around the world, and have a better understanding of how we can make a better world than we ever did.

Bless you @littledog, you are my kind of people!

 

[Ascholten]

Hello everyone.
I want some info on Pickles, mainly pickling cucumbers and recipies for pickling them.

what do YOU use.

I quickly found out that is a rabbit hole that goes on for miles and miles

instead of polluting this thread with 15 pages of cucumber recipies and why this or that, is better than those.. etc.

I created a new topic JUST for pickling cucumbers.

Please join in if you wish !!

Thank you
AAron

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/pickles-your-ideas-and-recipies.1548519/

 

[Ascholten]

But at least paying back my student loans was a lot easier than it is now. Between Pell grants, part-time work-study jobs at my University, regular jobs delivering pizza and dishwashing at a restaurant, and a few loans, I graduated owing only 18000, and paid it off in three years.
Nobody today can do that! Students these days work every bit as hard as I did, but end up owing 10 times as much, with crazier interest rates on their loans so that making their payments every month results in stretched-out payments that never end. Even into their 40's and 50's.
So people should

We found out our hound is allergic to Bermuda grass. His itch is the worst in the summer after a mow. Well just gives me a reason to plant all the veggies and fruit trees I can in the yard

I got my EPA cert thru the Navy. I taught the course! so they decided that yes, I probably should have a permit too !! crazy isn't it?? What's even more crazy is I can order literally a train car tanker of freon and that's cool, BUT if I were to get one of those 10 oz cans they put into cars, from the auto zone.. OH NO !!!!! your permit does not cover that !!! TERRORIST, goto Jail !!!

Some of the laws are just plain stupid.

On the culled birds, even OLD birds can do well. Put them in a chicken soup / stew. simmer them for several hours in a crock pot, or sous videaux ? I can't remember how to spell that poofter word. You basically seal them up and cook them in hot water at say 150 degrees or whatever you choose. It works. I am going to make a vid on that soon.
Old = lot of running / walking so they get tough... stew them for hours tenderizes them. Id like to think that pressure cooking might accomplish the same thing towards tenderizing them.

On college, and 'grouping people'. People should grow thicker skin and not go into histrionics because they think someone might have said something that might possibly be pointed somewhat, no matter how slightly but potentially at them. the BIGGER problem here is the victimhood / cancel culture that has destroyed our society. It used to be we'd laugh at our differences, and poke fun at each other, give a fist bump on the shoulder and go have a beer. NOW everyone wants to run to HR, polish up their I am a victim because XXX card and look for some sort of handout / reparation because of it. I fully blame the colleges FOR this ridiculous, Im a child until I die nonsense.

Maybe 'Children' today should look at 'college' and realize, no it's NOT necessary to pay these worthless institutions 100's of thousands of dollars... to be 'successful' in life, it's a hustle.

and if I am going to take that route, it is on ME to pick a course that will end up with me doing something USEFUL in life. Mideval trans.... gender studies is probably NOT going to land you a real job paying a meaningful income anywhere... Plumbing, GARDENING, (Yes there is a HUGE demand for legit arborists out there !! ), electrical etc is probably a much better route to go. Even IF I made the mistake and picked something that is not doing well for me. a HUGE part of the whole 'college' thing, at least it used to be, was becoming an ADULT, learning that YES we Do screw up from time to time, and how to GET OVER IT, and MOVE ON. LEARN from your mistake, step over it, and continue with life in a better direction, WISER from your misfortune. Blaming the world, and expecting the world to 'fix your problem' never works', you putting on your big boy/girl pants and fixing it yourself has ALWAYS worked !!

If certain generations are such fantastic people that can fix any problem there is, then the 'boomers' don't need to 'listen' to them, but sit back and let them take the reigns FROM the boomers, GO in the proper direction and FIX all the stuff they love to complain about that is so 'unfair'. Boomers did what they did to bring YOU to this point. Love it or hate it, here it is..... blame all the bad stuff on the last generation, but at least FIX it so your generation and your kids have it better. Saying you can't fix it is just you being lazy.

We could spend hours going back and forth about accountability growing up and actually taking responsibility, instead of blamestorming, but this IS a gardening thread. so lets not do that. Lets get back to weeds and cucumbers.

Aaron

 

[Happy Novogens]

It used to be we'd laugh at our differences, and poke fun at each other, give a fist bump on the shoulder and go have a beer.

The Carol Burnett Show was all laughs often surrounding stereotypes. Loads of fun, but I think today's cancel culture would have spasms watching it, lol!!

My mom used to make great pickles from her cucumbers. I'll have to see if she still has the recipe. If she does, I'll hop over to the new pickles thread. Great thread idea! I plan to grow cucumbers in my new garden. Just set up the trellis yesterday.