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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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 Posted - Feb 05 2010 : 07:49:26 AM
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My big garden-field is now under water. It might dry out enough by July to plant some late stuff. Right now it's looking pretty iffy that we will get anything planted til then. It's depressing to look out there and see that. But I know it will dry up. And it will get plowed. And things will get planted. And with all this water, everything should grow really good. Our well should never run out of water. I should not have to water anything.
I am having winter depression at the moment. This is only the begginning if Feb. I should be just fine. But when I look out the window I just get sad. I will look back on this, though, when the corn is 10' high and there are green beans all over. And nice ripe juice tomatoes peeking through the green leaves.
Kris
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LisaLu
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lisa
Wildomar
Ca
USA
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Posted - Feb 05 2010 : 8:44:00 PM
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Kristin:
My offer still stands...there is 5000sq feet of weeds growing in my garden...I could sure use some help! Come on down!
Im planning this years crops, I want to rotate the 9 groups....do you happen to know if there is a list of what types to plant year to year? Or is just rotating from spot to spot enough to keep the bugs and disease at bay? I just read to plant my potatoes where the corn was last. Have you ever heard of this?
I've cut out colored paper pieces to try and reorganize on paper....I may be over my head!
Do you like to knit or crochet? I just made a cute beach bag for my Mexico trip out of strips of batik fabric and a large crochet hook. The colors are bright and cheerful, it helped get me through the winter blaas....
Hope you feel better soon! How are your chickens handling all the rain? I worry so much about mine. I sure hope I'm doing it all the right way. As you know, this isn't the place you run into "farmgirls" much! I'm still a little sad about my dear Brittany, she was the best chicken of the bunch!
Spring is almost here....hang in there.
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Feb 05 2010 : 8:59:24 PM
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Lisa, I know you should not plant tomatoes anywhere near potatoes. Or even where they have been. Potato beetles LOVE tomato plants. And I always rotata green beans and tomatoes. I really never plant anything where it was the year before. I'll have to try the potato and corn thing this year.
Are you dry where you are? I would love to come help if you are. I don't worry as much about my chickens. They can float! I worry more about my poor cows. Mazie is soaked. And she looks so short standing knee deep in mud. I keep the calf in the stall when it rains during the day. Mazie misses her. And the goats hate this, too. I hardly see them except when I feed them.
I know this too shall pass. I am just impatient. And I do crochet. I need to start something. I have been making lots of soap, too.
When are you going to Mexico? Sounds like fun. I need to go to St. Thomas and visit Mrs. T. They said it stays about 80 there most of the time. And no rain. I need to go. But I'd need to drive to the end of Fla. then take a boat.
Kris
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LisaLu
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lisa
Wildomar
Ca
USA
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Posted - Feb 05 2010 : 9:22:11 PM
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I think you should bring your cow inside too... don't their hoofs get infected if they stay wet all the time? I would be a blubering mess if I were in your shoes!I can just hear myself now... "But honey....it's soooo cold outside, just look at her big sad eyes...just for tonight, pleeeease...)maybe an ark would be in order!
We rarely get this much rain, but it dries up in a day when we get the breaks inbetween storms. It's just perfect for growing weeds! Lots of rain, lots of sun, lots of rain, lots of sun. Our weather men crack me up....Storm watch.2010....omg...it's really nothing. We are so very spoiled here.
I just saw the cutest crocheted pouch for bars of soap, made with cotton yarn...you could whip those up in no time to go with your soaps! Hey, maybe we can trade...send me some soap and I'll send you a pouch! What kind do you make?
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2010 : 05:11:35 AM
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This cow is like a thousand pounds of cow fat! She's so big. And scary. I can only go out there with her if she's eating. I have to keep giving her hay just so I can check for eggs in the big round bale. She still thinks she's a baby and slings her huge head around. That hurts. But really, in the pasture next door that she has access to, there is a little shed she could get under. I think the problem is there is no hay over there. She thinks she might starve. I am getting another round bale and I will put it over in that pasture next time. This area she's hanging out in is ruined. Around here we are red clay. Water does not absorb. It sits on top. Anyway, she's worse than 4 pigs to the ground. It's a mess.
I would love to trade. I have all kinds of scents. I just made some almond scrub, some chamomile-ginger, aloe and vit. E, and wheat germ (this one smells like wheat bread). Also have geranium, peppermint, lavender, orange, plain goat milk, mulled apple cider, honey oatmeal, rose, calendula, rosemary. There's more but I'll have to go check. So let me know what kind.
Kris
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2010 : 05:13:34 AM
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I forgot to say our weather guys are the same here. Like last weekend on the air every few minutes to tell us it's snowing and how bad it is out there.All we have to do is look out the window to see it! And they look all tired and worn out from no sleep and living at the station. Good grief! Go home and get some sleep people.
Kris
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LisaLu
True Blue Farmgirl
126 Posts
Lisa
Wildomar
Ca
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2010 : 08:04:32 AM
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I would love to buy some from you. I would like to place an order for the following "flavors"...peppermint, lavender, orange,rose,rosemary and the aloe & E....lets start with one of every flavor, and I will make the little pouches....stick on a flower and sell them in my salon! Just shoot me a email for address!
Your cow sounds so cute, I want one so bad, but hubby says only if we raise it for food....I'm not there yet!
Have you ever made goat cheese? Its on my list to do....
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2010 : 8:25:50 PM
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I just sent you an e-mail, Lisa. And I have made cheese. I love the feta. I did some merinated in olive oil with different herbs a few years ago and sold them at the farmer's market until I was tild it was illegle and I could be arrestd and thrown in jail and all my animals taken away plus a huge fine to boot. So no more selling there ever again. I don't need to be told twice. But I can sell it from my home. I still make it, though. I also have made mozzarella and ricotta. Alos a hard farmer type cheese. I will have goat milk again about the middle of April. I can hardly wait.
And that's where my steer is now. In the freezer. That's what we raised him for. Mazie might end up there too if she doesn't straighten up. She's starting to act like the 4 pigs I had last year. I couldn't walk out the door without bringing them food fast. It's bringing back too many pig memories. I moved her over to the pasture next door today. She ain't likin' that. But there is more grass over there for her to eat. She's gotten used to me giving her hay now. She's going to have to get over that and get busy mowing. Silly cow. I want to breed her in June or July. She'll be 2 then. And I want a Spring baby. It's too cold to have winter babies anymore.
Kris
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LisaLu
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lisa
Wildomar
Ca
USA
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Posted - Feb 07 2010 : 08:35:23 AM
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Kristin:
The cheese sounds so good. One of these days I'll give it a try. Ive seen Alton Brown make it on the Food Network, it looks well worth the effort, but I wouldn't risk selling to that one individual that could turn your world upsidedown! And there are plenty of them around in this economy!
How did you learn so much about farm life? I find you absolutely fasinating! Last year your garden stories sounded so impressive, and now all this livestock...ya know...Ive never had "real" meat. Is there really a difference in taste? I totaly understand that feeding your own stock is sooooo much healthier, I just feel so connected to nature and the animals...do you think they know?
(Guess the "city-girl" is comming out!)lol
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Feb 07 2010 : 3:23:08 PM
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I think they do know. They are so happy running around eating bugs and grass. The chickens give me eggs like you will never see in a poor caged chicken egg. And "storebought" meat can't even compare to "homegrown" meat. Also the goat milk I get is wonderful. My friend has 2 Jerseys she's milking and I get her milk while my goats are dry. It's so good and sweet and creamy. Not watery and sick looking like store milk. It even makes my bread better.
I think all this "farming" came from both stes of grandparents. And my dad did a little gardening, too. I remember him buying ladybugs and praying mantis' to put in his gardens. I love doing this. Although I think I just had a melt down. I went to feel all the critters and have to trudge through all the ankle deep mud and put the calf up in the stall and she kicked me in the knee. I just broke down. Not that it hurt all that much. It did. But it hurt my feelings more. It seems I do so much for them and I get kicked. I am so tired of all this mud. And it just so happens that everywhere I have to go is a huge mud pit. I am just tired. So I just cried. I'm a big cry baby. And right now I just need to cry.
And what do you mean you have never had "real" meat?
Kris
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
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sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - Feb 07 2010 : 6:43:13 PM
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oh kris, i am sad for you. i know how hard it can get. all i can really say is...... this to will pass. the sun will come out tomorrow......... i hope you dry out. i was raised on the oregon coast. pure rainforest. rain wet mud yuk... now we live in the desert and this year we have been wet or wet and froze. i am with you lets have spring. sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
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