Recent content by horseymama2

I am still deciding on what all I will be planting, it is an ever evolving list. :P I have already planted some cool season stuff: carrots, spinich, and a few types of lettuce. I will put in some sugar snap peas, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower also, but not to much of those I am the only...

Last year I planted pole beans for the first time as a second planting, so they are new for me. I have been thinking alot about what kind of trellises to put up, so I like the idea of planting the beans with the corn. How does the corn do if it acts as the poles for the beans? How much...

I must have spring fever, because all I can think about right now is what to plant. I am still at the shallow end of the self sufficient pool, all I am doing at this point is growing most of my veggies in my garden, and raising a flock of DP chickens. I am trying to decide how to use what...

I have this problem occasionally in my top load washer. I have found the combination of baking soda and vinegar in the washer gets rid of it. Baking soda and vinegar together are a good drain cleaner, I just dump half a box of baking soda, and a bunch of white vinegar ( I don't measure, the...

I wish it were that easy Tankhill! :lol: The sex of an egg is determined prior to it being laid, the hen controls that like sperm do in human reproduction. In reptiles the sex of the egg is determined by the temperature. There are studies in a some wild bird species with more of one sex...

Denim Deb, I feel you pain with incubating! It sure has been a mixed bag. My first batch was bantam cochins I had temperature spikes and only one hatched. I have redesigned my incubator a couple of times. I have been buying and hatching shipped eggs. I had batches with eggs from two sources...

Hey Denim Deb, I do have one horse, but I board him down the road. He has been at that barn since before we bought this place. I only have a little over one acre clear, and I am on a pretty steep hill, so I don't have room on our place now to keep a horse. My old man is now 20, he is an...

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! Gettinaclue, we are in the same neck of the woods! Yes I do have chickens. We were trying to start a flock of lf Ameraucanas for my daughter's 4H project. I only have 2 pure bred pullets and 18 little roos. :barnie A very frustrating start!! I have...

I didn't see a forum for new member introductions, so I am making do here. :frow I grew up on a hobby farm in the midwest, but now live on 3.5 acres zoned agricultural in Virginia. I am have a dh of 20 years, and two darling daughters. I just finished a term paper on the evils of Monsanto...