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We have that book too. :)

Your garden looks great! My plants are sitting in my garage right now. We're expecting frost this weekend. Then maybe I can plant.
 

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all the rows I planted are holding water. We will see how it goes. More rain tomorrow
 

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it's gonna be what it's gonna be. So far nothing has came up. The little onions I planted aren't doing too well either. If it all fails I'll buy plants from a nursery in May.
 

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Here too, puddles everywhere, raining again, but my rain barrels are filling up and I'll be really happy to have all that rain water when things dry up. :weee
 

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I'm ready to get rid of them, but not exactly looking forward to the work

That's always the problem, isn't is? :D But, I like the broodies to hatch & train for me, so always excess roos to dispatch. Honestly, until this past year, I haven't kept a rooster, so only non-fertile eggs. When they began going broody, I got eggs elsewhere and then, my raised from chicks roosters were old enough to do their jobs. Add some hatched roos and yes, the butcher time has begun again. Personally, I hate the job but, the "doing" is the hardest. Once you start, you just roll along. Used to do butcher, just not for a few years.
Even if only dog food, the roos have to go. I've sold a few that were pure breeds but, mostly they want them FREE.

You know, I've seen plucker attachments that you can place on a drill and do one at a time, by hand. It's an option and surely faster than hand pulling. If only a few, skinning is just easier.

In the grocery I saw chicken feet for sale....they were packaged as "chicken paws". WHAT??? They don't have paws!!

You can double crop some of your garden -- tomatoes take a while to grow/enlarge, you can plant some fast grow items between them. Grow, harvest, then larger plant takes up space. But, you got 2 crops! You can grow vining things and let them spread all thru some of the other things -- WATCH your step. :rolleyes: Of course, there's always trellis/upward fence, which you already know & use.

Anything grown is less to BUY.
 

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6 chickens in the freezer!
 

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