Yay, Ash, been a while since I've posted here, but still alive and well, well. There is Dixondale Farms out of Texas online, they have some wonderful varieties of storage onion plants, just ordered a mess of them, and free shipping. The more you order, the lower the price. Great deal, I think, get them every year and they do wonderful. They have leek bunches too. They sell everything in bunches of 50-60, and by the time I was done with my order, was only paying like $5 a set. Hurry tho, they will be done shipping to this area soon. Congrats on your new gander too!
As far as the clothes line to who posted that, we have a screened porch and hub hung a line for me out there stretching from one end to the other with one of those retractable thingies, thank goodness as our "real" clothesline is still inaccessible with a foot or so of snow and ice under it. Don't need a broken hip to hang out clothes, the one on the screened porch works year round.
Geeze, just let the wood stove take a break this past week, now they are calling for temps down in the 20's at night this coming week. Looks like Monday will be the last nice warm day. The Farmer's Almanac actually predicted a false spring in April, they have pretty much been on the money by a few days give or take. Keep your chins up tho, they also predict that come early May, it will be suddenly summer for good!
Has anyone put peas in yet? It's still too wet here to even think about turning the garden let alone planting anything. As far as cats liking lettuce, my one cat will munch on anything green, just enough to do fatal damage. Have to keep them covered always. Grass is a good distraction, but don't think it will deter too much. If they like something, there's no stopping them. Do yours then throw it all up? Yuck...
The ducks are certainly enjoying getting out and about, the two boys are happily, um, doing their thing. My one imprinted girl Sweet Pea is a little broody, she does not like to come out of the duck house, but she is more afraid of her father who is always trying at her. Have not seen him succeed yet, he just likes to hold her head down and do nothing else, almost like he is scolding or training her. Her poor head looks like someone put mousse on it and teased it up. Kinda cute, but wish he would leave her alone. All the ducks, Pekins and Buffs are laying like crazy, about a third are fertile and have a half dozen in the bator. More coming, should have plenty for sale! All of my duck egg customers are starting to ask for them, so hope to have a good year! And with the snow melt, all the low spots are full of water, so they just spend the day going from one pool to another. Nice to see, they were in their house for almost 5 months, and good also they didn't kill each other. They refuse to step foot in snow no matter how I coaxed them, so it was their choice to stay put. They just got super fat, but are working it off quickly.
Have chicks and some fertile eggs coming this week, can't wait. And a rooster, miss not having one around and would like to propagate my own chicks. My girls are 3 years old now, and altho they still lay well, I know their time for that is limited. Time to refresh the flock! And they can go into the duck house when ready as the ducks will be in the summer pens. The cycle of life, a beautiful thing!
Take care all, and happy spring! Make sure y'all have some wood in for next week, will be chilly at night!
As far as the clothes line to who posted that, we have a screened porch and hub hung a line for me out there stretching from one end to the other with one of those retractable thingies, thank goodness as our "real" clothesline is still inaccessible with a foot or so of snow and ice under it. Don't need a broken hip to hang out clothes, the one on the screened porch works year round.
Geeze, just let the wood stove take a break this past week, now they are calling for temps down in the 20's at night this coming week. Looks like Monday will be the last nice warm day. The Farmer's Almanac actually predicted a false spring in April, they have pretty much been on the money by a few days give or take. Keep your chins up tho, they also predict that come early May, it will be suddenly summer for good!
Has anyone put peas in yet? It's still too wet here to even think about turning the garden let alone planting anything. As far as cats liking lettuce, my one cat will munch on anything green, just enough to do fatal damage. Have to keep them covered always. Grass is a good distraction, but don't think it will deter too much. If they like something, there's no stopping them. Do yours then throw it all up? Yuck...
The ducks are certainly enjoying getting out and about, the two boys are happily, um, doing their thing. My one imprinted girl Sweet Pea is a little broody, she does not like to come out of the duck house, but she is more afraid of her father who is always trying at her. Have not seen him succeed yet, he just likes to hold her head down and do nothing else, almost like he is scolding or training her. Her poor head looks like someone put mousse on it and teased it up. Kinda cute, but wish he would leave her alone. All the ducks, Pekins and Buffs are laying like crazy, about a third are fertile and have a half dozen in the bator. More coming, should have plenty for sale! All of my duck egg customers are starting to ask for them, so hope to have a good year! And with the snow melt, all the low spots are full of water, so they just spend the day going from one pool to another. Nice to see, they were in their house for almost 5 months, and good also they didn't kill each other. They refuse to step foot in snow no matter how I coaxed them, so it was their choice to stay put. They just got super fat, but are working it off quickly.
Have chicks and some fertile eggs coming this week, can't wait. And a rooster, miss not having one around and would like to propagate my own chicks. My girls are 3 years old now, and altho they still lay well, I know their time for that is limited. Time to refresh the flock! And they can go into the duck house when ready as the ducks will be in the summer pens. The cycle of life, a beautiful thing!
Take care all, and happy spring! Make sure y'all have some wood in for next week, will be chilly at night!
