East Texas Gardening

[The Pagan Pig]

Like the machine that milk comes from? Yeah, green lawns and washed cars are real important!

Yeah ...... who needs flatulent cows when you have a milk machine located on a nice green manicured plot with abundant azaleas to admire as the machine fills up you milk pitcher.

 

[baymule]

Yes. Ten, two week old, White Leghorns.

Stuff the chicken coop and run with leaves and your chickens will happily scratch it to bits, poop all over it and make you compost for your garden. Well..... maybe not at two weeks old....... LOL

 

[baymule]

I will probably be jumped on for this... but, originally... horses were domesticated for meat.

You won't get jumped on by me. I am in favor of horse slaughter, done here in the USA, instead of long crowded rides to Mexico and Canada. It hasn't stopped, it just moved.

 

[JanetMarie]

It's going to be cold here also in SW Michigan. Peach blossoms are out. Hoping they're okay.

 

[The Pagan Pig]

Our fruit trees are finished blooming so we won't have a problem there, but its been so wet and cold at night that I'm afraid any seeds i try to start in the ground might rot. Supposed to get back to normal temps the end of this week maybe.

 

[Mini Horses]

Ants were underground. Not -6 there! Understood?

 

[Alaskan]

I can believe that they are often wrong.

 

[The Pagan Pig]

Get any frost?

Good neighbors are hard to beat. Even if they do give you a load of ..er...stuff ... every now and then.

 

[The Pagan Pig]

Busy! Busy! Busy! I have 26 Cornish Cross chickens in a tractor outside that are ready to butcher next week. Building 2 new chicken tractors, have 50 CC chicks on porch ready to move out, don’t have their houses ready yet. Not to mention the garden. Taking 6 lambs to auction in the morning. I feel like a dog chasing her tail. LOL LOL

You have more on your plate than we do. I'm coming out of retirement so I'm just starting to get things started up again around here. Old and slow but sure we will be happy to have the gardens again and a few other live stock besides the chickens. With bell peppers selling at 90 cents each its time to start growing my own again.

 

[baymule]

I picked two heaping wash pans of mustard greens and half a wash pan of turnip greens. Got over half washed and the stem down the middle out. Taking a break, before finishing up. Greens and hot water cornbread tonight!