Recent content by noobiechickenlady

Yup! Just posted this the other day on the Sufficient self sister site (that's a mouthful... :lol: ) Soapy water, a waterhose and hand squashing the eggs. You're really facing 3 things here, the adult bugs, the nymphs and the eggs. The eggs are easy to find & squish, just check the leaves &...

Ooooh, dog fennel! Found some pictures online to go with yours. I think you're right! And through a bit of reading, it seems dog fennel & pineapple weed are often mistaken for each other. Thanks!!! Edited to add botanical name, as there are a few plants that go by the name dog fennel. This...

Hmmm, wild mustard doesn't seem to help. I can't find any references to it other than garlic mustard, which it definately is not. Garlic mustard would make me happy cause it's yummy! Thanks tho! I don't remember the flower it produced, but it is a lot more feathery than pineapple weed leaves...

Click to view larger. I have clumps of this growing in several areas. The goats don't seem to want to eat it, but if it's not good for them, I'd rather take it out of their areas. Smells a bit like carrot greens when bruised or crushed.

I so have garden envy now... Awesome Catalina!

Do everything possible to your garden before you leave, leaving her not much (If anything) to do to it. Mulch, pull all the weeds, spray with your favorite bug solution, shake on some DE, etc. Pick everything that is close to being ripe. If you have to water daily or every couple of days, lay...

I'd love to, but I can't get one as my camera isn't working. Like I said, this was just in case someone could be more brilliant than I am :lol: and figure it out. No biggie, it sprang up in an unintentional compost pile on a friend's property and I wanted to see if I could eat it. Its loaded...

Looks like a cowhorn or banana pepper. The cowhorn & some bananas will be hot, sweet bananas will not. ETA (because I didn't read it completely): You can use the sweet bananas on almost anything you would a bell. They have a similar taste IMO. Also good in a mild salsa. Cowhorn & hot banana you...

Don't forget things like kitchen trimmings & coffee grounds add nitrogen. Also green grass clippings. Basically, if its green or turns slimy, its nitro. If its dry or brown, its carbon. Mix them really well and it will get cooking! I need to go turn my compost. I've not touched it in weeks...

150' of soaker hoses, in 25' lengths. Next year, a broadfork & raised beds!

If you don't spray your lawn for weeds, you can use the grass clippings as mulch. It will keep the weeds down a great deal and add some nutrients to the soil! Also, when you do get out to pull weeds, pull them up and lay them on top of the mulch, with the roots away from the dirt, they will add...

That was my first thought, but no husk on the fruit and the leaves are different. The leaves look more like this, but they are a muuuuch darker green. They are a shiny green too, not dusty at all.

I am trying to get a pic, but just in case someone can be brilliant :D It sprawls in a semi-compact, small sized (maybe knee high?) bush. The bush has thin, arrow shaped, deep, dark-green leaves. They grow in pairs on either side of long thin branches, with a leaf at the terminal end. The fruit...

1. Corn needs lots of nutrients, no really, tons 2. Clay soil that has been a hay field for 30 years without disking or tilling needs lots of work to be a manageable garden spot. 3. Till, till, till, mulch, mulch, mulch 4. I must prove to DH that anything I say RE: gardening is correct, he will...

Botulism? From feeding maggots to chickens? Eek! Mine eat maggots. Tell me more. Did the chickens themselves get botulism or did the people that ate the chickens get it? ETA: Got it, limberneck disease. Researching now. Thanks!