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Got my hands on some ducklings this year. So we've added Lavender Muscovies to our every growing pens. Out of 5 ducklings though, we ended up with 4 drakes. I already have a chocolate ribbed drake and hen. So these 4 boys have to go, so cute though! :) Can't wait to hatch more in the spring...

Ok, I set up an awesome light system for my starts this year. Total cost "$12"! But the bulb I had on hand is wrong. Its a natural light tube light, but its only 20 watts and its not cutting it. What kind of bulb and wattage do I need to supply my babies with enough light to grow strong and not...

It's my second year with my asparagus bed! I'll get my first harvest this year if it all went well. I only had 4 roots out of the 8 I planted that came up, but they all produced thick gorgeous ferns last year. I Know for sure 1 is female and it produced berries last year. I think the other 3 are...

So last year I wanted to try a bunch of new things. Many failed. Oh well, we all learn. This year, I want to give a good amount of space to only type. This year I feel I'll get it right. In previous years, I always have at least 20 tomatoes and 1-2 squashes then a few of my favorites. I'll...

After many new attempts at paths in our permanent garden area I'm frustrated! We've done a good several inches of pea gravel after clearing the paths, and it became an over grown mess. Then we pulled up all the pea gravel, rinses it with bleach water put down a layer of sand and row cover and...

So I've got a pile of catalogs that have been rolling in since Thanksgiving. I haven't opened a single one. :confused: I've been so wrapped up with the holiday and the family and the house I couldn't give a thought to spring just yet.... but the lights are packed away, the weather is all dreary...

Yep... sorry! :hide I've been flaked out and in my own world for a bit. Honestly, I have no good excuse. I've been on the computer only for work purposes and I when I log off work, I close the laptop for the day. I've done the whole facebook thing from my phone since its such easy access and...

A tree frog got in the house 3 days ago. I still can't catch it! Lol

So, I have no idea what these squash are. Someone gave me a pack of seeds and said they were butternut. I'm pretty sure they aren't. They're almost ripe and the shape and color is definitely wrong. They even have a very textured skin. Any idea what they may be, or if they're a mix and perhaps...

Time sure did get away from me! The last couple of weeks I had been busy with the family, went on vacation and enjoyed unusually comfortable weather. The family helped me get a lot done in the garden recently, weeding, cleaning up spent plants, transplanting and planting fall crops. My garden...

Yes, generic title for a generic problem. I planted a TON of melons this year. I have 6 vines of watermelon going, all with baseball size melons that have been this size for a good month now. (Some of the melons are feeling soft and I can squeeze them and they have give.) I also have honeydew...

I haven't been stung in a LONG time. MAN, this is painful!!!! What can I put on it? And before you ask.... it just like dive bombed my arm while I was standing out in the yard, which is weird for a bee. I had to pull the stinger as it left it behind, but I tried to 'rub' it out as not to...

You guys asked me to update you on how the sorghum project was going. They took off very well this year, and fairly early. They range in size from 5' to 10' (the canes) so far. I think all this flooding rain is separating nutrients from the soil and moving them around as I am finding that plants...

So it came faster then I was ready for and I need to go clean out cabinets and drawers to make room. My Jam Sweepstake prize from Food, INC and TakePart INC. :) Now to figure out how to use the food mill and start knocking out the DRAWERS of tomatoes I've been hoarding for sauce.

We grow and talk about so many different tomatoes. We GROW so many different ones. No two are alike, not even from the same vine. So come should off your craziest, favorite, smallest or most delicious tomatoes! Here is one I got from our 'Black From Tula' tomatoes plant (almost rip but fell...

Did anyone sign up for the Takepart Preserving Contest Food Inc was running back in May? I signed up and I remember sharing the link. It was for a Canning/Preserving prize with all kinds of canning items, a food mill, those awesome Weck Jars, a digital kitchen scale and it was being promoted by...

So I have a friend who is growing a huge garden of herbs passed down from her mother who has long passed. One of the herbs in the garden has us confused and we just can't figure out what it is. What I can tell you, if at first everyone thought it was a type of tansy. Its not. This plant grows...

So hubby talked his mom into getting him an ice cream maker for father's day. Actually, the kiddo talked her into it, she just labeled it for daddy though it was really for all of us. Anyways... its this cuisinart: http://www.cuisinart.com/products/ice_cream/ice-21.html So far I made a...

I have to say, I am VERY thankful for my meaties. I processed them last night, and we were up until after midnight to get it done. Until now they do their jobs weeding my garden and controlling bugs from their tractor pen. I let these guy go much longer then I had planned especially due to my...

You can no longer patent HUMAN genes!!! It's one step closer!!! http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/36011/title/Supreme-Court-Nixes-Patenting-Human-Genes/