Tuesday, January 28, 2014
THE ARM CHAIR GARDENER !
BUNCH OF CLUCKIN CHICKENS !
I tell ya, I think this winter planning for the garden is some stressful stuff now ! I have been trying to decide how much and what I would need and want to plant this coming season. I plan on expanding the garden and adding more. It did so well / I still have carrots and onions in the bed wintering over, we have been eating and feeding the Wabbits . I also plan on saving my own seeds from know on. So as to eliminate the cost of having to buy every year . The PRICES OF ORGANIC , HEIRLOOM SEEDS !!!!! Makes you want to think ! Think ! and RE-THINK just what it is you really want and need to grow. Iv been working on it for a while now, and I still can't bring myself to pick-up the phone and make the orders. Seed potatoes from one place , onions another , rest of veggies from yet another ! I can't find ONE place that has it all. Than I switched over from that, to give myself a break and decided to start investigating hatcheries for ordering the chickens I want to get this year. SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS ! It's a foreign language ! Greek I think ! It takes more to ship than it does to buy . I just wanted some all around birds, there trying to tell me I have to pick- broiler-fryer-Cornish-BBQ ? Can't ship little ones with bigger ones, no turkeys with chickens. Easter eggers-brown eggers-dark brown eggers- white eggers-rainbow malty colored ? Think I might try an old time standard Red Ranger chickens and maybe some Cornish game hens. Red Rangers get to be a good 5-6 1/2 lbs in 80 days. They're broody ( in Greek ) that means they will sit and hatch there own chic's , so I won't have to keep buying them. And they are good brown egg layers / 150 eggs per hen per year . I figure can take us down to 5 hens and a rooster for winter . Saving coast of feed , putting the rest in the freezer . Now the Cornish hens can be, shall we say" harvested" in 1 month at 2-2 1/2 maybe 3 lbs. and they can be free ranged . I think that's a good plan for the birds and the freezer. Now , if I could just get the garden seeds ordered ! BEFORE THEY SELL OUT . T
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