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Hi Jess! I came across something on a Facebook chicken group about lash eggs. Have you heard of this or experienced it with any of your chickens?
If the person is someone from whom you would not seek advice…why would you listen to their criticism?
I understand the heart racing with thinking something is a snake. I was actually watering my garden a few days ago when I saw a snake in my garden bed. I knew it was a possibility because we found the snake skin in another garden bed. My kids went crazy over that, we have 3 boys. I usually don't mind garter snakes as long as they don't mess with me. I realize they are good for the garden, but still made me jump and my heart race. Better believe I'm poking around with a shovel first before I stick my hand in to harvest from now on.
Thank you for the video and you,I was going through withdrawals lol❤❤❤
Another problem with letting other people come and harvest is that you have to show them where they should go and what they can Harvest and what they should leave alone and just generally keep an eye out on things and when you're doing all of what you're doing right now you don't have time to do that!
Yes, to garden tours, even if they are wild and crazy.
Sometimes, when I look back at what my 4 kids were involved in and the challenge to get them back and forth and show up for the games / events – I wonder how I did it. I miss those days, though.
I got tickled about your strap / shoestring story. One afternoon, I was getting ready to water in the garden, and before I entered, I saw the almost striped looking thing. First, I thought it was a small bungee cord, so I started to reach for it. Then something told me there were no small bungee cords used in that area. So I grabbed a stick and touched it. It moved. It was a snake. I managed to take it to some woody area.
Just a suggestion…..Maybe you could get your kids to harvest the things you don’t have the need for or the time to deal with for you to either take to your market or a food bank pantry. What a blessing
We milk a lot of goats in spring and I need a machine, I love my Capralite milker if you ever decide to take the dive into a bigger goat milker in the future!
Yes! Please show us the wild garden. My garden has struggled so much this year and is just now producing a little so it would be awesome to see your wild chaotic garden.
Amazing how people "should" all over other people. You're an adult – it's YOUR garden – its YOUR land – it's your plants/peppers – YOU do what you want/need to do or not do with produce and enjoy!😊❤❤
Yes please! Chaotic garden tour, bring it on, would be very validating bc my garden is a mess too!
I have a cat that does the same thing to me, frequently. It is to the point that I stifle my worry until hands are laid on her. She can fake death with the best of them. When our other two (same age) passed away a few years ago within months of each other, this acting scared me so much every time.
If it happens again, hopefully miah will think to tell you “false alarm” !!
Your horses will need the Selenium as well as all your other grass eaters. Most of North America is Selenium deficient and it's a high cause of lost pregnancy and weak or stillborn foals.
Missed you Jess! So nice to see your smile, hear your joyous voice and hear your laughter. Glad everything is settling down and getting back to normal, as normal can be.
The Death Nap is HORRIBLE. I hate it, some of my goats are very convincing with that!
Of course we want to see your garden tour! 😁💜🙌🏼
Instead of saying the garden is crazy and messy, think of it as bountifully plenteous. lol For some reason, mine barely produced this year. 🤷🏼♀️
Two things: First, you look fantastic in brown. Very lovely. Second, earlier today I was thinking that I hadn't seen a garden tour from you lately, and I wondered if you had given up on gardent tours for the season because being too busy with the abundance was enough on your plate. Not kidding. I really did have that thought earlier today. Last, do I want to see a wild and wooly garden tour? Does a bear poo in the woods? YES!!!! lol.
YES we want to see the August /Sept Chaos Garden!!!
I’m covered up with banana peppers again too and not a bit happy it! Last year the sweet bananas were raging hot, hotter than the ones labeled “Hungarian Hot Peppers”! This year I got sweet bell pepper seeds from two different places and both had hot banana peppers seeds in them….i’ll feeding those to my chickens, who probably won’t be happy with them either. We got some old produce from a local produce stand for the chickens and the hot bananas were the last things they eat. Took a couple of days! I don’t know why people criticize people for feeding their animals the garden leftovers….. that’s one reason to actually have animals is so produce you don’t want can get turned into something you do want (meat, eggs milk). I know what you mean about the late summer chaos in the garden. Mine looks like an abandoned asparagus patch! Asparagus everywhere and I love it even though she looks a bit messy!
Dutch Fork Pie Pumpkin is available (or was when I bought the seed) from Sow True Seeds!!! It's doing FANTASTIC in Southwestern KY!
Yes please do a garden tour . Its amazing even when its a bit wild:)❤
Girl! Look at that tattoo on you, that says wilder still. That is the August garden and that is the beauty that it is. Crazy, wild, abundant chaos. I love it! ❤ Not sure if that local pumpkin of yours has edible greens but I think the immature pumpkins should be edible like summer squash. I do it all the time with the ones I know won't fully ripen.
Whose garden isn't chaos in August?
Love the wild garden of abundance!
Jess love your wild garden🎉🎉🎉
A couple of years ago you’re crazy wild chaotic august garden gave me permission. I thought I had been doing something wrong, but it turns out every garden is that way in August if you live a real life and now I enjoy the wildness of it before I go back to teaching back to schoolback to routine I love the garden defies all logic and is glorious. Thanks Jess.
Please do a garden tour! I love a wild garden. Mine is getting there quickly too. For me that criticism issue is rooted in self judgement. Look at the places you are judging yourself harshly, at standard you set that come from past authority figures, and the reaction to the criticism goes away. So glad things are settling out and you might get to catch your breath again.
Justin Rhodes has some buffet style mineral sled ideas…..
My tomatoes have tipped over in the cages, my squash have escaped the garden beds and invaded the scrubs and the beans are trespassing over the fence into my neighbors yard.
It’s.all.fine.
So good to see you laughing again. God bless you!🙏🏻♥️