i don't thiknk you went overboard . i have a female black and tan german sheppard "Share" she hass killed her fair share of chickens that are lose in the yard by playing with them also. i give her the same treatment whan she does that you do . and she has what seems like lost intrest in them ...
2/6/13 planted , various kinds of lettace, peas, broccoli, carrots, collard's , onions, and red and green cabbage, ( the chickens love the red cabbage) . now comon good friday and the rest is going in the ground. im anxious to see what actually grows it is kinda early i'm told . :cool:
2/3/13 garden turned over and ready to start the 2013 season. I think I am going to try to plant some peas and lettice this week just to see how it goes. I know it's early, but I am tired of waiting and being in alabama I think I could have a garden year round. There are no winters like I'm used...
the wife is making gifts in canning jars also, perhaps trail mix , pecans from our tree , dehidrated apples from our tree , jerkey from a deer i harvested from our land and things like that , the thought of making it ourselves is really neat. and very inexpensive.
I have been working alot of O.T. the past few weeks and building a stabel for a new arival im getting in august , so the garden has been kinda niglected. We have filled the freezer already so i planted a few butter beans and some late corn and both seem to be doing good . Well anyways when I...
Thanks guys and gals, and yes she is doing a good job . We by far aren't getting rich but it at least pays for the spices and the vinegar and jars . It is a good feeling after you grow it , pick it , and then process it , and even make a few bucks off it in the end. I myself am not a huge fan of...
7 more quarts of pickels, that makes 42 so far. this year i had a great crop of cukes. my GF has been selling the pickesl for $6.00 a piece. even made our own labels for the jars.
I acquired some pumpkin seeds from the feed store while i was picking up feed one day a while back. Planted them by a fence row at the edge of my garden under some cedar trees , the ground is like a huge compost pile under there, and this is what i have so far. this has not been weeded just...
my squash plants all had some kind of mold starting to grow on them so i pulled them all up along with the peas that i think i burnt up with fertalizer tilled it up and planted corn and more squash in a different place, i was only gone for 5 days and i guess the rain helped the grass and weeds...