The last of the peppers ….. time for some armadillo eggs and jalapeno jelly.
Brag Board
This is the fall kitchen garden. Complete with cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower and bunching onions. May not be much but it will eat.
Armadillo eggs?
Great pics, lizards. We did jalapeno jelly this year, too. YUM
In some ways I'd like a fall garden, but in more ways I'm glad to be done for the year. There's so many OTHER things that need attending to...
We got our first worthwhile snow last night... about 3"! My onions are still in the ground; we covered them with blankets and plastic last night, and it didn't get as cold as they were predicting--was supposed to be 20* and was only 28*-- so hopefully we didn't lose them. Did manage to get the hay shed roof patched... got the winter's hay in on Saturday.
Building fires every morning now...
Porkpal an armadillo egg is a seeded jalapeno stuffed with meat (elk if your really, really lucky) and cream cheese. Then wrapped with a piece of bacon and grilled to perfection. They taste great and are guaranteed to kill over time. Lol
On the fall garden – we usually don’t plant in the summer because of the heat and bugs. Seem to have better luck in the fall and early spring. Like now, the night time temps. Are in the 50’s and we don’t have to spray for bugs since they are just about all gone at this time.
Wow! That's a nice bunch of eggs... what kind of hens have you got? Did you raise them from chicks?
Snows all melted already, everything just sloppy as all get out, not that I'm complaining... not after the summer's dry. I promise I won't complain about mud til it gets shin high.
wow you got snow already !
just a mixed breed variety i got from a fellow DGer at a RU .
To bad i don't know how old the eggs are :( since i have a rooster in with the ladys . I got to toss them. They have been missing for over 10 days soooo on that note ... i am guessing i may have to toss them ?
theyre were 20 all together
close up of eggs
Unless it has been hot, or a hen has been sitting on them, your ten day old eggs are probably fine.
Just put each one in a container of cold water. If it floats, toss it. If not, it's good. The ones that lay on the bottom are the freshest.
The ones that 'stand up' on the bottom of the container... I give to my dogs. The air space has gotten big inside the egg and that puts a question mark in my head... and there's usually so many eggs when you find a stash like that, giving some to the dogs is no big deal. LOL
Scramble 'em up and feed 'em back... chickens have no scruples, they'll love 'em. A great source of protein for those sneaky hens. LOL
Chickens will eat nearly anything... I would throw all my bones in the coop to get picked clean after dinner and in a day they'd be picked clean and much nicer to put in the trash. Which we have to haul to the dump ourselves, so we usually stockpile the bags til we've got a load.
I'd also throw the dead mice from the traps in with the chickens... oh, they'd get so excited and the carcass would be gone in a couple of hours.
Really, chickens eat everything but squash bugs, near as I can figure.
mine don't like zuccini or cabbage ? and won't eat a wooly catapillar LOL
other than that
they just eat my compost . i put half in their coop and half in the compost bin.
good to know on the mouse. I hope they get him/her muawahahaha
they do love watermelon
my melons just wern't good this year. but they sure love them.
_ And millipedes, my chickens won't eat millipedes either. Are they poisonous or just disgusting?
They don't eat zucchini or cabbage?! Must be a regional thing... mine loved all veggies. New frontiers in chicken culture...
My chickens did run from those big tomato hornworms when I threw them in... until they learned to peck them open... I helped by squishing a few of the bigger caterpillars... yuck.
eewww THW 's LOL
hmmm maybe a regional thing. I think my chickens are spoiled ? i dig worms for them LOL sheesh
i take a shovel and flip the dirt for them , they will actually sit on the shovel while a dig . Not safe but ... its what i got. I am just careful about there little toes and my little DD helps by feeding them bananas while i dig
Chickens are quite the fun animal to have around - as long as you don't mind them scratching/digging up plants. It's also fun to watch my six month old kittens try to stalk the chickens. Silly kittens.
My husband and I tried sweet potatoes again this year. In the past, we were slow planting them and it froze before they were big enough to harvest. This year, he planted some in his veggie garden but the deer would keep eating the leaves. He did not harvest any SP. However, we also put a couple starts in my fenced garden (I posted a pic of that right after this brag board was started). The vines went crazy and were beautiful for folliage. After our first frost, I went out and started digging, and - oh my! - what big sweet potatoes I found! I was so excited, I was laughing the whole time and my 10 year old daughter thought I was nuts.
OMG!!! Those are amazing! You could make jack-o-lanterns out of them, they're so big. You are a sweet potato queen (google that and see what it gets you! LOL)
WOW...now I can't wait to plant those next year! Good job!
Love your greenhouse/chicken coop Sue!
Great looking kids, great looking sweet potatoes! Did you buy "starts" of the SP or make your own? I've never grown them but want to next year.
We actually started them from store bought SP, but it took a long time for them to sprout. Obviously, it didn't thwart the growth much! We also grew the orange flesh SP. These white-ish ones were the largest of the bunch and my 7-year old, who doesn't like SP, didn't realize what they were - he even asked for seconds on the SP pie! :)
When I enlarged the pic, my eyes did just like the little guy in the back of the pic. I think those are the biggest SPs I have ever seen. Good job!
Sashagirl
Jan 04, 2010
Amazing Sweet Potatoes!! Too bad you didn't have a County or State Fair going on, where you could have entered them!
Sasha
Looks good,pvc made or ?
No I was refering to,this girl in front of me on the dance floor.
I'm thinking flashback to the 60's....
earth to east... yo!
=0)
Ah, no. My day on the 60’s dance floor found the girl in front of you changing all during song or music or what ever. Hard to keep up with whom your partner was. If anyone? Scary
And what happy days they were.
As long as you didn't catch anything.... OK, back to bragging about the HOMESTEAD!!! LOL
Here's the raised bed we got built this last weekend....
And here's the 1/2" hardware cloth in the bottom to keep the gophers out. It's going to be about 16" of dirt, so that oughta handle any carrots, parsnips, or daikon I can grow up!
Looks great!