What about Purslane? It used to grow everywhere like a weed. A very succulent, delicious weed. I haven't seen any growing around here, though. But I'm sure you can find it wild.
This chart simply serves to tell you the amounts of specific vitamins and minerals so you can choose produce with higher amounts of the minerals known to be reduced in heat stress. It is not meant to imply that humans and chickens have similar dieta…
I agree Laura, this post has been highjacked!
BTW, our mean hen is penned up by herself today. The other two are doing good together. The real test will be reintroducing the meanie back into the flock of three. Hopefully since your 4 are still new…
Ummm, thank you all for your feedback on my angry chickens. Looks like the discussion is evolving to other issues not related to my original post. Lots of good info regarding what to feed/not to feed the birds during the summer heat. Also, lots of v…
I think the key to why you're getting that many eggs is the fact that you are raising first year production reds rather than your feed mix/misters/lack of fruits/vegetables. My production birds (Ideal 236 white leghorns) lay 6+ eggs a week each thro…
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did you hear I got chickens? I have four peeps! Yaay! That's a lot of us now- craig has two, I have four, ben and cor have several, you have some. when do yours start to lay?
So I cooked the first of the rabbits we processed last week. Fried it like chicken. What went wrong is I have never fried chicken and I cooked it too long resulting in rubber rabbit so I popped it into the crockpot for three hours and it was divine…
I was just reviewing John Jeavon's book How to Grow More Vegetables and in it he mentions planting Mexican marigold (Tagetes minuta) for controlling nematodes.
Hi Brittany,
Now is sure the time to be making Kombucha since it's been gone off the shelves for a few months now. I so miss it! I hope and pray that the issues get resolved and it comes back.
I've had some really good success with making Kombucha…
Hi Chris - I don't have a PH tester. I've always just added bagged composted mulch, steer manuer and Starbucks grounds to my existing AZ soil to ammend. Some years my spring tomatoes are really good and sometimes not so good. Is there anything in ad…
Thanks for the heads up. When should transplants go in? It's so stinking hot out there! I have an area preparred and ready to go but dragging my feet in fear of the heat.
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