Official Poll : What project are you planning to start this 2016?

Official Poll : What project are you planning to start this 2016?

  • Growing my own vegetables

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • Growing my own fruits

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • Growing my own fruits and vegetables

    Votes: 4 20.0%
  • Raising my own meat

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Canning my own food

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • Preserving food

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • Making soap or household cleaners

    Votes: 2 10.0%
  • Start your own income-generating activities

    Votes: 7 35.0%
  • Others (Please specify)

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • Total voters
    20

Mini Horses

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So true -- our minds just chug out the work ideas!! I make a list of what I need to do, want to do...(my late husband is looking down & laughing as I used to make fun of his lists)...then try to cross off some item each day.

I just don't want to stop thinking -- dementia is a bad thing and I enjoy good health, so do not want brain to stop!! :eek:

I read where a lady used tubes of the material that you lay on ground, under mulch, to help keep weeds down. You can buy it in area where they sell drainage tubes -- it's used for covering pipes to prevent dirt filling them & for ballasts at construction sites to keep drains clear. she filled with straw and formed into size she wanted for bed, added dirt in center. Less expensive than wood. You could use the strips like for a garden, staple into a tube.
 

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It's really fun reading all your comments. Keep them coming guys! :love:love
 

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As a poultry man, it makes sense to start doing some more gardening this year, as vege-patches go so well with chickens. I've never been great with plants (I got all the animal care genes, Mum kept the vegetable skills for herself), but it seems like a nice time to start being great. :)

Wish me luck!
 

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Well, most gardening can be learned -- but, if the garden doesn't do really well, chickens don't care as they eat it anyway! Of course, their favorite "pickins" seem to be those new plants you just stuck out there AND scratching out the others looking for worms in the newly tilled areas. o_O

City folk don't understand why we fence the gardens!!
 

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I have been planning to buy a pressure canner for a couple of years, but haven't done it yet. This year will definitely be the year. Also, I make a lot of things from scratch, but bread isn't one of them, and that's going to change this year too. Got a nice bread board for Christmas!
 

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Last year was a bust for me. All I got was a good amount of cayenne peppers and my chickens started laying (right now they're free-loading molters). So this year were gonna try straw bale gardening. Oh and for those who knew we were trying, WE SIGNED ON THE HOUSE IN AUGUST!!!
 

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Last year was a bust for me. All I got was a good amount of cayenne peppers and my chickens started laying (right now they're free-loading molters). So this year were gonna try straw bale gardening. Oh and for those who knew we were trying, WE SIGNED ON THE HOUSE IN AUGUST!!!
And we're gonna start some permanent fruits in the backyard
 

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