Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[Messybun]

What's that I hear off in the distance? Is that "THUNDER", you know where there's Thunder there'swhere there's lightening there's . Thank You Almighty God!

Looks as though we are right in the path of the Rain Train coming up from the south. Choo Choo
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I might just get my appetite back

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We had a storm a few weeks back and lightning split and hit a pole and my neighbor’s shed. You can keep your thunder and lightning over there!

 

[baymule]

@CrealCritter if you shoot an apex predator, then you only open up territory for a new one. If you have sheep, then you need livestock guard dogs. Not just one, but a working pair. 2 females usually don’t get along, littermates or not.

We had a cougar in the neighborhood a few years ago. It killed all a neighbors goats because she had guard donkeys, not dogs. All the donkeys had to do was be faster than the goats.

 

[baymule]

Oops hit post.

The cougar was on the property right next to ours several times after that. Our dogs went nuts, barking like mad. Cougar did not come in. It went on after a few weeks, looking for an easier meal.

 

[Alaskan]

Interesting to hear about the donkeys. I know some people go on about how great they are.

 

[baymule]

Donkeys are a prey animal. When it comes right down to who’s going to live and who’s dinner, donkeys are gonna run like he!! .

 

[farmerjan]

Cougars present a unique threat due to their penchance to drop down on to their prey. Not a horse or equine or any bovine or anything, that will naturally go after a cougar in most cases. But I have heard of a few MULES big ones, that have taken on a cougar .... not near rock or trees where they would have an advantage. And most dogs have a healthy respect/fear of them too.... moreso than even a bear.... I have personally seen a donkey tear a coyote to pieces...stomp and shake it up and kill it.... our donkeys would go after dogs in a heartbeat.

 

[CrealCritter]

I'm way outside of my league here, on livestock protection. I'm enjoying learning though. I'll just keep moving forward... If anything the dogs will have a good 4 acres enclosed in woven wire to run until their hearts content. That is until I can put some hooves on it. Thinking I may have to lock up the animals at night. I was planing on letting them have 2 12 x 16 foot stalls anyways. So they can get out of the weather if they wanted. I suppose I could try and train them to stay in the stalls at night also. And I could work on some way to secure the 24 foot entrance. The two stalls with red arrows will be shelter for hooves. When they are on the 4 acres.

 

[CrealCritter]

Nice rain day being in the midwest everyone starts to get nervous, if we don't get a good soaking rain at least once every two weeks.

My experience only but for USDA zone 6B/7. The begining of July is the ideal time to sow seeds indoors for brussel sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, cabbage for later fall early winter harvest.

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[Lazy Gardener]

It's also recommended here: sow crops for fall harvest in July. If sowing for tunnel harvest during winter, greens and other fast growers need to be sowed by mid August. My garlic is a week or so away from full harvest date, so... just as soon as that bed is cleared out, I'll poke the compost to it, and sow it for fall/winter harvest. I'll move the tunnel onto it. Hopefully, it will provide greens at least until Thanksgiving.

 

[CrealCritter]

It's also recommended here: sow crops for fall harvest in July. If sowing for tunnel harvest during winter, greens and other fast growers need to be sowed by mid August. My garlic is a week or so away from full harvest date, so... just as soon as that bed is cleared out, I'll poke the compost to it, and sow it for fall/winter harvest. I'll move the tunnel onto it. Hopefully, it will provide greens at least until Thanksgiving.

Speaking of garlic... I've got round flower heads fully open. Do I dig the garlic, cut the flower heads off and plant the flower heads? If so how deep?

Thanks

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