Before we moved to our new home we discussed having chickens. We would get a few for eggs and perhaps even a few meat birds…BOY WAS I WRONG. I should have known better that with my personality those birds would win me over – BIGTIME. We moved into our new home and that summer decided to get 3 hens of almost laying age off a local farmer. We would not name them in fear of getting “attached”. When we spoke of them it was the red one, the black one and the mu...
So you’ve decided to fill your garden with joyful chickens…Here are a few tips on raising chickens naturally…Happy healthy chickens make for healthy eggs and less hassle. Shelter: Chickens will need adequate shelter. This will depend on your climate and predators. Chickens will need a draft-free dry coop with adequate ventilation. If your climate is cold a heat source should be available for winter. A solid concrete floor or a raised coop are ideal as this will ma...
I saw a post earlier asking “where our advice is coming from”. Part of the discussion suggested we list our hardiness zones to help out. A few weeks ago I donated to arborday.org. While on their website, I found a hardiness zone look up. This will work for those of you with US Zipcodes. Those of you outside the US might contact arborday.org request a tool that works for your location. Keep in mind that these zones are based on your zip code only, so your micro-climate probably ...
I began pondering last fall about what I could do with a patch of earth that lined the whole side of the house and a portion of the driveway. This strip gets lot of sun and heat, all day. What came to mind was a Container Garden. Now I am not talking about just filling a few pots with flowers and calling “it a day”. What I have in mind are items that I can repurpose; or unusual garden pieces; or items that are just pretty to place among the flowers and various containers. So to...
Someone sent me these pictures. This is a flower from Thailand. It is also a protected species. It is not allowed to be exported. This will be the only way we will be able to view this flower. Some info on the flower.
Although we have a very short growing season and are limited in the fruit varieties that can grow here, I am very lucky for the numerous wild berries that grow in our area. Wild blueberries are abundant although due to urban sprawl many blueberry picking areas are disappearing and the ones that remain are being harvested more densely but even so we still have a bountiful supply of these extremely tasty little berries. Wild Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) Another common be...
These are some shots of the water gardens and the Japanese garden sections of the Montreal Botanical Garden. Lotus Lotus Lotus Lotus pod Waterlily Waterlily Bog plant There was a nice rose garden here as well. Just one shot though. They were past their prime. Gardeners outside of the Japanese Gardens – manual labour 100 year old bonsai maple 50 year old bonsai maple forest 210 year old bonsai 70 year old crape myrtle bonsai little...
So what do you do when there are still tomatoes on the vines but frost is coming in fast? Well, you do a mad dash harvest run! So, now that you have so many green cherry tomatoes, what then? Why, whip up a batch of green cherry tomato pickles! Was the wifes’ idea to do that… Still got plenty of tomatoes on hand however, so tomorrow I’m going to dig up everything I need to make some green (and some red) tomato ketchup. :) Still got plenty of figs on the f...
While I was surfing the LJ site I ran into Pen Turners' Swap and I get an idea – Seed Swap. Since there are several law restrictions when sending seeds, it would be better to have one package for each country. The package will contain 10 small bags with diferent seeds(5bags with blooms, 5bags with vegetable). Each bag should contain: Seeds Name of the plant Hardiness zone in which you are growing the plant When each Tender gets the package he’ll go through it and decide wh...
Through the wonders of modern science we’d been able to travel forward into time so that we might check on the chickens and see how they progress. It’s a fantastic thing, stepping out of the time machine and being able to see what will be. Stunning I must say. So, lets move on… Here are my chickens in the year 2012. This is Dot, the Silver Laced Wyandotte which we picked up. Oddly enough she seems to have the ability to clone herself at will. As if you look to the b...
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