2011 Veggies

DST

DST

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Cockadoodle doo McP, nice one. Was wondering if my neighbours would find it weird if I got chooks, lol. Living in a city with chickens, I am sure there are a load of people doing it.
 
mellokitty

mellokitty

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sweet. the city of vancouver just passed a bylaw that says you can have a certain number of chickens (6? 10? can't remember)....

funny thing is, the opposition is trying to use that as a campaign platform: "do you really want the sort of municipal government that allows 'backyard chickens'"?
 
mcpurple

mcpurple

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DST said:
Cockadoodle doo McP, nice one. Was wondering if my neighbours would find it weird if I got chooks, lol. Living in a city with chickens, I am sure there are a load of people doing it.
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the city i lived in allowed you to have chickens under a certain number, i think it was 10.

today i planted 15 walla walla onions for over winter to harvest in spring, along with some chesnic garlic to harvest in spring.
 
whodatnation

whodatnation

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billcollector99 said:
what about Organic Miracle Gro?
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Is that possible? lol

F-mg....... owned by monsanto... Im not down with that.





My neighbors in new orleans had chickens :-) Iv always wanted some lol They have great poop... It would be tough getting to know them then killing the cluckers :lol: gotta do what you gotta do.

Sounds cool on the winter crops mc p :-) Im not doing any this year,, will next year though.
 
billcollector99

billcollector99

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whodatnation said:
Is that possible? lol

F-mg....... owned by monsanto... Im not down with that.





My neighbors in new orleans had chickens :-) Iv always wanted some lol They have great poop... It would be tough getting to know them then killing the cluckers :lol: gotta do what you gotta do.

Sounds cool on the winter crops mc p :-) Im not doing any this year,, will next year though.
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Here in SD you can have chickens in the city, but not roosters. My sister has 4 chickens and she gets 2-3 dozen eggs per week! More than enough to supply her household and then some.

as far as the MG, i wasnt saying to use it, lol. Just wondering if the Organic labeled MG was truly Organic, cause if not, isnt that false advertising??
 
mcpurple

mcpurple

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billcollector99 said:
Here in SD you can have chickens in the city, but not roosters. My sister has 4 chickens and she gets 2-3 dozen eggs per week! More than enough to supply her household and then some.

as far as the MG, i wasnt saying to use it, lol. Just wondering if the Organic labeled MG was truly Organic, cause if not, isnt that false advertising??
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i hate MG and i doubt theri organic soil is 100 percent organic, most soils unless OMRI listed are not 100 percent organic. yes they may have organic stuff in it but the stuff it was derived from was not organic. like lets say you buy some gauno from the grow store, yes it says organic but who knows what the bats were fed could have been some non organic stuff meaning that the shit is not all organic if that makes sense.
and whodat im with you on F monsanto. and why no winter crops?

good news today as well. i was just about to go out and buy the materials and start building my coop but i got a call right before i left to go to diamond and it was a guy from another city that i had emailed a few weeks before. he had a free coop about 4 ft by 6ft already built but dirty and needs a few touch ups for free. i got it today and will be cleaning it and making it water tight. it only has 2 roost boxes so i need to build at least 2 more and make it coon and fox proof. all it cost me is a few new boards and 20 bucks in gas. so im happy, here very soon i should have a 5 chickens ( i forgot the breed).

and who i will post pics here some time next week of my coop and possibly chickens
 
Don Gin and Ton

Don Gin and Ton

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my girls been goinbg on about getting some chucks out of rehab. apparently you can rescue battery hens. they take a while to get back to laying but once they do they put out loads.

she really wants an eggloo too

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Toolage 87

Toolage 87

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Got a question for anyone that can answer it. My lemon basil in my AeroGarden is flowering. I would like to know how do I go about collecting seeds from them and when is the best time to pollinate them?
 
DST

DST

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I have collected basil seeds. The plant will flower (I have some in flower just now if you need pics). Not sure if you can self pollenate or if you need bees (check that out). Anyway, once pollenated eventually the flower dies off and the seeds can be collected from the seed pods (normally little black looking things)

Q; Can anyone help me with a Cactus problem. I have hard lumps growing on my cactus and we believe it to be mould, not sure if it is going to kill it or not. I have had it for nearly 8 years. It's like long streaks, but as I say, hard. Any ideas? Do I need to try and cut it all out (I fear I would need to dessimate the poor plant) Will get pics.
 
fumble

fumble

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I imagine it would be something like harvesting the seeds from my mint plant. I just let them continue to flower until they seeded. I cut the heads off and collected the seeds by breaking the heads apart over a white piece of paper. I forgot I had them until this post, so I don't know if they will sprout. Doubt if this helps, but you never know.:roll:
 
whodatnation

whodatnation

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fumble said:
I imagine it would be something like harvesting the seeds from my mint plant. I just let them continue to flower until they seeded. I cut the heads off and collected the seeds by breaking the heads apart over a white piece of paper. I forgot I had them until this post, so I don't know if they will sprout. Doubt if this helps, but you never know.:roll:
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Should be similar enough to basil.
 
Toolage 87

Toolage 87

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DST said:
I have collected basil seeds. The plant will flower (I have some in flower just now if you need pics). Not sure if you can self pollenate or if you need bees (check that out). Anyway, once pollenated eventually the flower dies off and the seeds can be collected from the seed pods (normally little black looking things)
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Well that's the thing I can't put this out side because its my AeroGarden. I have no idea if I can hand pollinate it or not but my lemon basil is flowering right now. I toped it thinking I stopped it from flowering and the little bugger grew new flower spots on the top. So I would have to do it by hand but I have no idea how to tell when its ready to be pollinated by and and if basil is self pollinating or not.

If you have pics I would love to see them.


fumble said:
I imagine it would be something like harvesting the seeds from my mint plant. I just let them continue to flower until they seeded. I cut the heads off and collected the seeds by breaking the heads apart over a white piece of paper. I forgot I had them until this post, so I don't know if they will sprout. Doubt if this helps, but you never know.:roll:
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Well that's the problem my herb plants are indoors and I can't put them out doors because they are in a unit that is indoors only and even if it wasn't the would probably die out side because its already. Its already getting to 5C to 3C (37.4F - 39.2F)
 
DST

DST

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pics uploading.....

Start of Basil flower:

Flowering:


Dried flowers with seed sacs opened and little black seeds.


Avacados still growing, only another 9 1/2 years to go, lol.


Jasmine seeds pods...



HELP: My problematic mould growing Cactus....:(



Last of the garden flowers, sorry for the poor pic, best of a shitty bunch of pics, lol.


One of the few Broccoli's that is actually doing anything...doesn't look great either..boohoo


Cheers peeps,

DST
 
mellokitty

mellokitty

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toolage: buy a little paintbrush (preferably a real hair/fur one) -- be the bee! ;) (and thanks for reminding me that i have to harvest my thai basil seeds).

deestey: that's what my broccoli looks like! (and my romanesco's didn't do SHIT!! :cuss:)

that looks like some sort of sumfin-sumfin on your cactus.... i'll try sending that pic to my cactus guru :) (she's like 60 and has a ginormous cactus her son bought her for mother's day 30+ years ago)
 
DST

DST

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it sure does look like a lil sumfin sumfin, lol!!! thanks for that as well, would be interested to hear what a cactus guru has to say. All I am finding is, cut it out. But I will need to hack her to bits if that is the case. Oh, I also got a little side growth on it as well, may be I should throw that pic up as well for the Good Lady Cactus Guru.

Have you read the "Power of One" by Bryce Courtney? If not by all means do so, it's an awesome book (as is the followup, Tandia). Anywway, there is a Old German guy in there who has a cactus garden. lol.
 
whodatnation

whodatnation

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Hey D, I did a quick looksy on your cacti situation... May be "scabbing" possibly. Heres the link I was looking at, it has a picture at the bottom of the page that looks like yours.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://0.tqn.com/w/experts/Cactus-710/2010/08/peeled-growth-cactus.jpg&imgrefurl=http://cactuslover.blogspot.com/2011/03/fungus-vs-cactus.html&usg=__rPoaTEYIgyk4E0q59sC8cvSAeR8=&h=640&w=565&sz=85&hl=en&start=12&sig2=XVgN9fXnXiC2KM7UB3-cZA&zoom=1&tbnid=5qMLz12ko8QSDM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=121&ei=SnKXTpaaHJOJsAL3uojfBA&prev=/search?q=brown+cactus+fungus&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&tbm=isch&um=1&itbs=1


Possibly from over watering and or poor ventilation...


Heres the pic.

 
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