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    Preserving Your Harvest

    I will dehydrate cabbage for sure. I was given a recipe for soup mixin's I love ( carrots tomatoes, peppers,onions, etc.) and it called for a bunch of cabbage. After awhile the whole thing tastes like sauerkraut! But it's a great vegetable base for beef , sausage, chicken. The dehydrated cabbage...
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    What a great info! I feel like I almost know you now:hugs. You will have a ball with your chickens. I started out with a very mixed breed. ( only brown egg layers.) I now have leghorns, Easter eggs, cinnamon queens and a breed called smoky pearls. I'm more in it for the eggs than the...
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    Vinegar for heat stress, conflicting information can someone help clarify?

    Oh I didn't know they are juveniles . That helps. Let us know how they are.
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    Vinegar for heat stress, conflicting information can someone help clarify?

    I give rooster booster electrolytes in heat. Whatever you do make sure they know where source of water is. Push beak of one and watch to make sure the others follow. Could also freeze some bottles of water and cool down some of their area. Maybe hide bottles under puppy pads so as not directly...
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    Two Free Cinnamon Queens And Supplies!

    I'm so sorry you can't keep them best of luck giving to someone .
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I checked cukes for those hidden buggars and found 2. Pulled cukes out of fridge and canned up jars of spicy spears, baby cukes , regular dills, even threw some cherry pepper(2) in a jar with banana peppers to see how that works. And made some sliced pickled jalapeños. I need to water tubs then...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Sometimes the old fashioned things works best. I had a friend that used olive oil to remove sap from his vehicles hood after trying all the store bought things sold for that.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I crave pickles water and chips too. Coconut water also helps me.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Well the heat has come back, pretty humid too. Daughter SIL and kids came back for weekend to help us ol' folks with flip house. Exhausting but oh to be young again! I was inside managing crews, and gpa was outside directing g kids and son. My dear daughter peeled 2 walls full of old wallpaper...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I say go for it!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I'm thinking of planting beets for greens for us and chickens. Might try planting another row of green beans for fall as the grasshoppers are eating my blossoms off of my spring planted beans! as they come on. I'll leave carrots in till freeze and next year will plant in fall. They're kind of...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Yesterday pulled baby cukes off . I'm so afraid of missing one and having it turn yellow and ending that plant that I'm on a quest to get them early. I pick a good handful then go out again and sure enough I see another few from another angle! I watered everything so it rained last night but...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I did pinch my new blackberry canes this year and they sent out 2-3 shoots from that junction! But never grew taller. So probably the same with raspberries. So pinch off at whatever height you want them. Watched a YT on it and so far it's worked
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Amen to that my canola oil stinks I'm going for some other type of oli next time. I use EVOO mostly tho
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Yummy thank you.
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