Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[jvls1942]

Quote: I took a real good look at the 6 guinea babies today. I think they do not need supplemental heat anymore.. especially when it is this hot.

I went out just to see how it was out there. nope, still too hot.

this is definatly cold-beer drinking weather.

......jiminwisc.........

 

[mophead]

4 raccoons down, 853,245,021 to go.

 

[CherMoz]

Good morning all!

I finished tying up my tomatoes this morning and got more weeds pulled/or covered with old carpeting. Dug some new potatoes last week. Looks like we should get a good crop.

Two new chicks have hatched under a broody. I wasn't expecting them until Thursday. Must of had something to do with the heat during that time...

Have a GREAT day!

 

[jvls1942]

4 raccoons down, 853,245,021 to go.

that's a lot of coon skin caps..

 

[jvls1942]

good cooler morning,

I went out early and put the steering cable onto the mower. I still have to adjust the tension.

I tied up my tomatoes right after I planted them, it looks like i should not have bothered. there is very little upward growth on them.. I planted Amish Paste and Big Boy ..
I am thinking of making some manure tea and watering them with that .. this is the first time I planted them with commercial cow compost.. Next year I will go back to chicken droppings, I will collect enough, even if I have to follow each chickens with a spoon and toiler paper..

Did you see on TV about that couple who lost 7 sheep to wolves ? and the guy just wrung his hands and said there was nothing he could do about it ? wouldn't you think that somebody with a hundred sheep would at least know a little about LGD ??

they said he would be reimbursed for them, but what about any future kills ? sooner or later the DNR will get weary of that game..

..........jiminwisc.........

 

[Daethen]

I have heard lots of people say that their tomatoes are not doing well this year. I grow mine in a very close row so that they make a wall. I use 6 ft fence posts as supports and tie string around and in between. Most of my plants are as tall as the posts and still growing but also loaded with fruit. My peas got to be 4' plus and my beans are going crazy. I plant pole beans on a fence and have already harvested 4 or 5 times. My beets are going nuts as well. We have had 2 batches of them and I think next week I will thin the rows and pickle the ones I pull. I am so happy with how my garden is doing this year I can't even explain.

 

[jvls1942]

you people down south make me envious .. we can't plant until 2 or 3 weeks after you guys do.. that is a major head start..

I caught up to the tree trimmers along the highway. I ordered as many loads of wood chips as they care to deliver..
now I sit back and hope they come through..

now I am off to the dentist.

........jiminwisc......

 

[cordless]

Jim..... Maybe you can cash crop the yard

 

[Daethen]

Well, I got a surprise today. I have 2 silly hens that have been broody in the same box. They would take turns then they started to sit in a different box. I marked the eggs they were sitting on and then they kicked them out of the nest and broke them. Well the last week or so they have both been sitting in one box on those eggs together. Today I went out and took a look into their coop and one is on the floor with what looks like a broken egg. I think "whatever, you 2 are nuts". I went back out a bit ago and they each have a chick underneath them and there is still an egg under the silkie hen and one on the floor next to the other hen. I put the one on the floor back into the box under the silkie and left well enough alone. Goofy girls.

Also, I picked a huge double fist full of beans and enough cucumbers for creamy cukes tonight. Most of the tomatoes are 5 feet + tall and loaded.

 

[bigzio]

Late afternoon all...yep, the drill pluckers make a mess, but if you are only doing a few or half dozen birds, it beats hand plucking, and a quick rake job after is easy peasy compared to hand plucking. They are designed for a few birds mostly.

More broccoli and zukes harvested today. My second planting of beets are gone again....think maybe a rabbit got under the heavy fence on the ends that are open....or they just disappeared like magic. Not my year for beets, I guess...plenty of pints in the pantry from last year though to cover my arse.

bigz