Shiloh Acres
Leafing Out
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I'm going to have to start growing for my livestock. Feed has just gotten too high ... went up twice since the new year and I'm paying 35% more for most of it. I'm starting to look into bulk, and what I can plant for the animals.
I didn't purposely grow anything for them last year, except the winter rye. I would have re-planted the clover if I could have. It's coming back in the places it was thickest last year though.
I did get a nice crop of tomatoes and peppers. I shared them with the goats, the ones that were damaged in some way. They LOVED them. I didn't think the peppers would go over well, but I had one girl who absolutely inhaled them. I used to call her my piggie-goat though ... she would eat anything.
The geese would come up and try to steal tomatoes from the goats, and vice-versa.
I let the goats clean out the garden (controlled, only a bit each day) once the plants were spent. They found ALL the remaining tomatoes and peppers too.
I plan to grow a LOT more for them this year, out of necessity. But I've only just been gathering information on it for a month or so now.
I wouldn't mind finding a source for mangels, with what I hear about them. Most of the rest of it is findable.
Oh, they did take out my blackberries and a few rosebushes last year, but that wasn't supposed to be for them. The blackberries volunteered in unfortunate places, and one of the kids got out and got to the rosebushes. I have better locks on the gates now.
I didn't purposely grow anything for them last year, except the winter rye. I would have re-planted the clover if I could have. It's coming back in the places it was thickest last year though.
I did get a nice crop of tomatoes and peppers. I shared them with the goats, the ones that were damaged in some way. They LOVED them. I didn't think the peppers would go over well, but I had one girl who absolutely inhaled them. I used to call her my piggie-goat though ... she would eat anything.
The geese would come up and try to steal tomatoes from the goats, and vice-versa.
I let the goats clean out the garden (controlled, only a bit each day) once the plants were spent. They found ALL the remaining tomatoes and peppers too.
I plan to grow a LOT more for them this year, out of necessity. But I've only just been gathering information on it for a month or so now.
I wouldn't mind finding a source for mangels, with what I hear about them. Most of the rest of it is findable.
Oh, they did take out my blackberries and a few rosebushes last year, but that wasn't supposed to be for them. The blackberries volunteered in unfortunate places, and one of the kids got out and got to the rosebushes. I have better locks on the gates now.
