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    Your 2025 Garden

    The Red Norlands I grow might would winter here as long as the ground was dry. I don't think the sweet potatoes would make it. We do drop into the teens in winter. A few times in my life I recall it dropping below 10f for a few hours but that is not the norm.
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    Sorry for your troubles. You need to add a guage to keep a check on your tanks. Helps a lot. If you unexpectedly ran out of propane, you may want to make sure you did not damage a line or fitting doing the floor repair. Be safe! Get you an electric skillet for back up.
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    fuzzi's Chicken Journal

    Carrot foliage. When I harvested the last of the carrots in late spring, there were still some tiny immature plants. I just left them. Later I went to clean up the area they had started to bloom. Yellow and black swallowtail butterflies were all over the flowers. So I left them again. I...
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    Your 2025 Garden

    Had to water all the newly planted brassicas and butterbeans today. Then I dug 1 more sweet potato plant. When this slip first started growing I buried part of the vine along the trellis. This one had a lot more baking size potatoes. If I grow these again I will definately bury a portion of...
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    fuzzi's Chicken Journal

    This week I found these while doing some garden clean up. I believe they are black swallowtail caterpillars. There are lots! I watched this yellow swallowtail working the lantana. He was standing on his head! 🤣 How about some fluffy faces just because.
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    Your 2025 Garden

    I planted a dozen broccoli plants in what was the melon bed. Picked some scuppernongs. I dug up one sweet potato plant. I found these. There are lots of these where the vine rooted in the ground. It started to rain so I had to stop. There are more of these small ones and at least 4 more...
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    fuzzi's Chicken Journal

    I have an oval and a round crockpot. The oval is my favorite. I used my oval this year to cook down some tomatoes into paste for canning. I didn't have to stand over a pot stirring. Took some time but I didn't have to worry about them scorching. I will aways use this method in the future. It...
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    Ended BYC Pets Livestock Caption Contest 09-12-25 Pic by Tiffany Wikk

    5 more minutes, please?
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    Ended BYC Poultry Caption Contest 09-12-25 Pic by fluffycrow

    Where did everybody go???
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    Your 2025 Garden

    I spoke too soon. Very light rain. The porch and mulch look wet! I wish it would do this all day. Rain dance! :wee
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    The first barn we built here was 24x30 on a concrete slab. It costed around $6000. That's how long ago it was. Today that same structure would be $$$$$. We have added some smaller barns and shelters since. I think barns are like chicken coops. Build it larger than you think you need. Then if...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I don't know why it post the 2nd pic 2 times. It won't let me edit without removing the whole post???
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    She is a beauty and so is her egg! Me too! In all my time raising chickens I've never had bearded gals. Well I decided to fix that this year. 🤣 So I picked up 6 EE pullets about 11 or so weeks ago. I need to name them. Love the beards and they are so friendly, curious and comical...
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    Your 2025 Garden

    Yes we do. I have a soaker hose on my butterbeans. I've been having to water everything I'm planting. Yesterday we were teased by a slight drizzle that lasted all of 5 minutes. Not enough to matter. Soil and compost is dusty.
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    I like that barn in the photo! My Dad taught me to shoot by setting up rows of cans. It was so much fun! He'd say make those cans dance.
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