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Ok, this actually isn't too bad, you know. Here are my recommendations: Skip the tiny stairs and useless rail. Extend/pull out that level into a useful sized landing, 4x6, 6x8 or so; then ramp it down in two directions - one wide path to the gate/drive, the other to the lawn and around to the...

How true! A friend of mine loves his plants, and struggled to grow nice gardenias. The guy next door, never home, stuck over a dozen bushes in the ground one weekend, and promptly ignored them. Guess whose was bigger? :lol:

It seems my garden crop is one or the other: failure or way, way too much. Is this just how it is or are there charts somewhere to figure it out better?

If there is a way for a hen to get stuck, get cut, or otherwise hurt, I have found it WILL. I had a nail that a thermometer hangs from in what I thought was an inaccessible corner, until a hen managed to gash herself on it. Even a two inch gap is enough for these "Stupid Birds" to get stuck...

Are these arsenic compounds in retail chicken and rabbit feed? Will the label list these? Ack! How do I find out?

Thanks Steve! My best drying and storage area was the unfinished attic bonus room. Now that it's been finished, I have to come up with another lazy alternative. It's too hard to squeeze into what's left of the attic. Garage is too full of active projects and sawdust. Hmmm, time to start...

:hide I used to live there too. Nappannee, Logansport, Grasscreek area anyone?

welcome! :weee BRACE YOURSELVES... the seed catalogs are coming!

Hi ya'll from ENE of the Atlanta perimeter. Welcome! I'm slowly turning one acre of suburbia into my personal farm.

flour corn and millet. I've used sorghum whole in soups instead of barley, and millet makes a nice pilaf or substitute for bulgur wheat. I'm ordering another $200 in drip irrigation for the added beds for grain/bean/greens rotation. Of course, if I grow flour corn, that's another gadget! (a...

I live in the Georgia Piedmont and want to try my hand at alternative grains. I'm gluten sensitive, allergic to tons of stuff, and am finding it easier, cheaper, and tastier to grow my own anything. I'm not too good at it yet, but this year I want to work in some grains and green manure crops...

I raised my kids on that philosphy. However, there was a big reward the day we ate at a friend's and were served chicken livers on spaghetti noodles. One child even went for the gold by asking for seconds. Turns out the two boys had something of a dare-you contest going. :P this same friend...

I used to live in Ohio... at a time when the Cyahoga river burned twice, and Lake Erie was declared dead. Willowick was washing into the lake with every storm. And I loved it; I could ride my little bicycle everywhere...at least in summer. Made necklaces of the little conical shells and...

I gathered up pumpkins from after the Halloween lots closed (with permission). I split one occasionally for the hens, along with a watermelon (I had a bunch volunteer again, they never get ripe). The old watermelons are tossed in a drift along the run fence. My sneaky hens (the 4 old...

I'm looking more and more to the local tool rental places; the pro-sized equipment is so much better than what I could afford to buy, if at all. And I don't have to worry about maintenance, parts, etc. Sometimes I just walk in to browse what there is for future projects. Oh, a walk=behind...

Totally Tomatoes and Vermont Bean Seed (same day). I want them all! TT has a very scrumptious snacking pepper called "YumYum", a pale yellow sweet "SunSpot" that do well in my Atlanta area garden. Let the dreaming and planning begin!

One of the best garage sale finds was the 5 foot long, solid old steel prybar. I use my trusty square-end spade to excavate to the rock, and that prybar is heavy enough to drop wedge under an edge to loosen and lift. Or, break it up.

Fastidioulsy mows twice a week with the bagger just to have clippings for mulch in the vegetables. Steals bags of leaves curbside in random neighborhoods. Goes garage saling just to find more tools and ask for cuttings.

cherry tomato - mine keep volunteering all over the place now. parsley - volunteer the next year if I let one go to seed and scatter. rhubarb if you're north of Atlanta Contender bush beans Four Seasons cabbage (but the squirrels found it) Also voting for Kale and Swiss Chard. Here in the...

Be allergic to everything: milk, soy, gluten, coconut, nuts, sulfites, msg, painkillers, allergy meds (ironic, huh?), chlorine, petrochems, cleaners...basically all of civilization.