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Big round bales of brome hay go for around 35$ per bale. Most weigh about a ton and it's the size that most livestock farmers use around here. We let an Amish farmer in our neighborhood cut and bale our pasture hay. We usually average about 12 bales per year of the big 5 foot bales and since we...

I haven't checked in for a while here. Hope everyone has been well and their gardens have fared better than mine....by the looks of recent damage from hail storms I have a feeling that like me, everyone's figuring out new swear names for Mother nature. My in the ground garden did rotten. Our...

Our zone shows we are in the 5b-6a region but I've learned that I darn well better think about 5b propagation when it comes to planting because we can have late springs and freezes till late April in spite of what the maps say. Winters can also dip down to the -15 range in temps like it did last...

Glad you joined us! I haven't tried the straw bale method but I have seen people around us using the bales as an edger for their gardens maybe with future planting in mind. That same neighbor inherited a barn full of straw bales when they bought the property. I told DH that I wished we had...

Gee Bruce and here I was feeling like we had crappy soil.:bow We have sand, but only in the ravines. This whole area of MO was once under a salt water sea but you wouldn't know it if you looked at the soil. If I want sand for the runs, DH has to take the tractor back to the timber and scoop...

We have big grey squirrels here. The big ones look like concrete blocks with tails, about twice the size of the common brown squirrel. I hear we have fox squirrels also but I've never seen one. Usually the hawks keep the population under control. The funniest thing I've ever seen one do is chew...

Yeah, I do the same thing. I drill holes around the bottom and in the bottom. As I have been having trouble with even well drained planters and house plants, I began to suspect something was going on with the soil. Our soil is very heavy with clay about 6-8 inches below the topsoil. Makes...

Limited bend over good. I spent much of the afternoon on my hands and knees digging out iris that had been taken over by weeds due to my neglect, I have to admit. The past two years haven't been conductive with me doing a lot of bending or kneeling. I decided that it wasn't going to get any...

I got a chuckle out of your squirrel. We live in deep rural Missouri in the middle of an Amish community. Here we call squirrels tree rats. A lot of people hunt them and eat them. For the most part, I leave them alone unless they come up to the house and raid my bird feeder or try to steal baby...

Thanks @sharron. I'd take you up on that but unfortunately, I have three young tomato plants thriving under my LED grow lights that my husband set up for me in our hobby room. Maybe next spring I'll try them. The yellows sound delicious. I grew two plants last year in chicken fertilized soil and...

Good morning everyone. Well spring has finally arrived to north central MO. With spring thoughts turn to two things for most BYC addicts, chicks and gardens. This spring has seen two big changes in my life. 1) I'm another year older with 66 breathing down my neck. And 2), Last fall I was...

I ordered three times from Burgess and quit. The last order, nothing survived. They sent me sticks with no roots. The clematis that I ordered came with two dried roots that were about a half an inch long attached to a 2 inch dried up stick.Out of the 18 items ordered over a three year period...

I have a flock of 18 Buff Orpington, Welsummer, BO/Welly cross Standards and a lone Speckled Sussex hen and 38 mixed breed OEGB/bantam cochins and whatever else was passing through the Amish neighbor's barnyard at the moment. And two BBR OEGB pullets. I'm hoping to add a few pure bred OEGB's to...

Hey! We are almost neighbors. We are in Macon county, just three counties to the east and slightly north of you! Nearest city is Kirksville.

It's taking me about 45 minutes in the morning to feed and water the chickens. It usually takes me ten or fifteen minutes at most. This morning I found myself standing in the big coop and not watching the birds. I was trying to get warm! You know when you can stand in a coop with 40 noisy...

I got three seed catalogs yesterday. :celebrateAlso the Sweet Basil I seeded and set in the window has finally germinated and sprouted! Spring's gotta be coming and right around the corner, says she as she loads more wood into the fireplace and pulls a sofa throw around her.

Hi all you happy gardeners and MERRY CHRISTMAS! I was just talking to DH about how I can understand the feasibility and desirability of having a green house and how could I rig one.......not easily for winter use.......and realized I haven't popped in on this thread for a while...

The lidocaine laced aspercream seems to help my feet but does little towards my back so on the feet it goes! @sfgwife When you start you avocados, how do you do it? Suspended in water? In soil? If water, how do you suspend the pit? Trust me, I hit the fishing line more than once while mowing...

Blasted spellcheck! It's supposed to be avocado.

Little trick with deer. Fishing line. I read about it I think on Mother Earth News or one of those magazines. We were having deer come in and nibble on our new fruit trees when we first planted them. A conservation officer warned us that we were in for a challenge and what they recommended...