What did you do in your garden today?

[Cashoo]

How is this millet alive? I planted it back in the first week of march because I was bored. I fully expected it to be me just wasting bird seed.

 

[LaurenRitz]

i wish i could do more things like that here, but i am not the landowner yet so i can't. you will always have a lot of interesting things to choose from for snacking.

With the grains and pseudo-grains I'm more thinking about winter forage for the velociraptors. Many of those plants are pretty drought tolerant, and if they can reseed themselves I can let the chickens in during the winter and lock them out in the spring so the system can recover.

Theoretically, if I can make it work I will only have to feed them when conditions are so bad that they can't leave their coop.

If this works I can do another section near the 2nd coop and seed it with the same mixtures.

A good sized compost pile is another option, but I don't generate enough food waste to make that feasible.

 

[Mini Horses]

The seed pods can be thrown into their coop. Milo grows easily, good pod of seed. All those crops were grown in dry, hard countries & do well in both poorer soil & drought.

They love turnips. Being an in ground bulb type, grow a few. They handle col better than you might think. Mulch, use for winter feed. . They surprised me at how much both chickens & goats liked them. Harvested a truckload I Jan one year. But I'm not where ground freezes 6-10" deep

 

[Cashoo]

I just ordered some beans from Vermont Bean Seed Company!

 

[flowerbug]

what did you pick? 12yrs ago i expanded my collection by ordering from them. i still regularly grow 3 of them.

 

[Cashoo]

what did you pick? 12yrs ago i expanded my collection by ordering from them. i still regularly grow 3 of them.

I got Vermont Appaloosa, Soldier, Peregion, and the bush bean mix

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I got Purple Dove beans in the ground!

 

[LaurenRitz]

I just hit the buy button at Experimental Seed Network.

 

[LaurenRitz]

if you haven't checked out TEG and the bean threads you should... (you as in anyone who likes beans )...

What is TEG? I don’t think ypu meant Thromboelastography.

 

[Hinotori]

What is TEG? I don’t think ypu meant Thromboelastography.

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