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[akroberts]

I got the small raised bed filled. I can't do anything else because the rain came in last night and before that I woke up feeling like death warmed over. I will post pictures.

 

[akroberts]

I'm putting my tree next to the end cabinet of my kitchen but I don't like plain Jane.

 

[Moon888]

i love sweet potatoes (the texture and flavor is a lot like our favorite squash) and they have a lot of nutrition. i've never eaten the leaves. we've only grown them here once (a long time ago) and it was quite a trial to get them harvested from the heavy mostly clay soil we have. i think if i were to try them again i'd have to finish the fencing because the deer would graze them back to nothing.

I could imagine making a vegetable curry out of the leaves?

 

[Moon888]

Today I was weeding in the greenhouse garden when I saw a sweet potato coming up out of the ground and I was concerned, considering this is my first time growing them. I asked for some advice about them and just may very well have found a new vegetable for me. The leaves are edible just as the same as kale and spinach. I might try to find a way to sneak them into other dishes to get my family to eat better

I guess, once they take hold (I've been battling for 2 years, because of the non-stop rains here, AU) AND when I do get mine to sprout, I will now harvest leaves for my birds (chooks, peas, guineas and ducks)

 

[Moon888]

I don't have any roosters. I purchased them from a feed store.

Been wondering whether I should get a rooster ... I have a large pen with 3 peas, 3 guineas, 4 ducks (which I will be getting rid of soon), and 2 chooks. The peafowl have been playing up since the pen has become crowded, so a rooster could be "trouble"?

 

[akroberts]

I added more to the tree but didn't think to take any pictures of it.

 

[akroberts]

Went to dinner at Casa Ramos tonight for my birthday with my son and daughter in law. The blackberry margarita was delicious.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Hope you had a wonderful b'day! The margarita sounds delish!

 

[akroberts]

Today I got 5 eggs. I'm posting pictures of them. The olive egg at the bottom is from yesterday. This next picture is mind blowing. A jumbo chicken egg is 70 grams so this is a definite ouch egg

I didn't realize that SS has a different way of posting pictures

 

[Moon888]

I'm glad to be here. I found a potato plant growing in my big green house. There's also tomato plants. I found a squash plant growing outside my sunken garden and 6 onions

Thats amazing : ) For the past 3 years I have not been able to grow pumpkins; this year, I have chooks and they must have fertilised the pumpkin seeds that I feed them (to keep parasites at bay), and are now growing in the most unlikely places : ) We recently bought an acreage property in NSW of AU, and one of the projects that is on the list, is my "Tulsi Garden". The "sticks" of sacred basil planted, have all survived, due to the excessive rain that we have been experiencing, since we landed here 16 months ago. I'm so looking forward to getting the tunnel done (covered with open bird black plastic netting), and becoming self sufficient : )