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The geese have returned to my IL's pond and we've seen several flocks heading north. The Saturday chore is list is getting longer and longer as the weather starts to cooperate. The chicken pen is nearing completion and babies will be here in a couple weeks. My kids are insisting that 50* is...

Thanks for the link. That is exactly what they look like. We have 35 baby chicks coming in two weeks!

They are my own barn cats, one is tame and the other two are semi-tame. I'll try the fencing, that might just work! Thanks! :D

Ever since we starting putting in the raised beds the cats think the beds are their personal litter boxes. Is there anything I can plant around the boxes to deter the cats from doing their business in my vegetables?

Last spring my BIL traded me 3 dump truck loads of composted horse manure for several hours of computer work I did for his wife. We used it to fill three boxes last summer and it was fantastic stuff! Much better than my hard Georgia clay. This winter we made 7 more boxes and just finished...

That is what we used. DH cut down a couple oak and poplar trees last summer and a guy he knew brought over a small saw mill thing and cut it into lumber for us. We used the outside edges to make my boxes. They really were a bugger to pound nails into. The biggest problem though was we didn't...

One year we tried planting them in straw and the next year we tried planting them in stacked tires. The concept is good, we just had a problem with the watering. They dried out way too fast, I'd water in the morning and by evening the straw would be bone dry. Maybe it was just the Georgia heat?

I don't ever remember a winter as wet as this one here in GA. It is crazy! My luck, its going to rain all winter and we won't get a drop this summer when I need it. :rolleyes:

My peas are going to float away :(

This is the reason I garden. I don't love to garden, in fact there are times that I down right hate it. However, I do it because I love knowing that I don't have to rely on the grocery store for my food. If something were to happen, I know how to grow it and I know how to store it. And most...