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Okay, here's the new babies: Duckies: a blue swede: and my midget white turkey: And I have a whole incubator FULL of runner ducks, calls, Lavender turkeys, Beltsville turks and Pilgrim geese!!!! I'm a happy girl.

Oh, that one I can do. This is my favorite pal Jefferson the Bourbon turkey.

Ugh, I decided to just go ahead and take a quick pic with the incubator open and found the darn camera with no charge. But we're all done and I have one black and two blues. Pics are coming just as soon as that baby gets a half a charge or so.

My incubation attempts have finally been successful. This morning was day 27 and I had turkey eggs pipping all over the place. It's amazing but nerve wracking so I took a little trip to town to do errands so I wouldn't be tempted to open the 'bator. When I came back expecting to see some...

Oh my goodness, look at all that beautiful spinach. My mouth is watering for a good spinach salad! That's wonderful.

We've got nothin'....okay, I DO have 400 some plants left in the basement but they're not even hardened yet so we're still weeks away from actual gardening. If it would quit snowing, blowing or raining we might get our peas and some greens out there.

Hardening is the hardest part but I agree that you should get them used to sun first, then cool, then wind. I am taking the easy way out by hardening mine in the greenhouse. The greenhouse will keep them warm enough without exposing them to this harsh wind until I take the ends off the...

Beautiful!!! I wish I could get one to grow like that outside! Love Rosemary.

SO, back on topic then.....I agree with collecting more than you need because seeds do keep for several years if kept dry and cool AND you might want to trade some seeds for other things you want to try. Giving seeds to friends and family or charitable organizations is always a nice, wonderful...

I'm all about saving my seed and planting it. That way I can reminisce while I'm planting "ah, I knew you're mother and she was a beautiful, tasty red tomato, I ate her with a good chianti and some fava beans...."

Yepper! Put them in a ziploc bag and keep them in dark, cool, dry place-a refrigerator would be even better if you have the room.

Yeah, I'm one of those who writes to the legislators on a regular basis PLUS I have been less than pleasant to some of the military recruiters who have been calling for my high school age children. They told me that the law states they need to talk to my children and that they will keep calling...

Sorry, I'm a newbie to the duck Mommy thing-mine are still in their eggs (but developing nicely!) but I've heard that ducks eat pretty much everything. Grass, herbs, veggies, fruits,....basically nothing is safe. Oh, I did hear you can trust them around blackberries if you have the bushes that...

Tomato seeds seem to do better if you use the "fermenting" method to save them. Just a little something I've noticed. You take the seeds and put them in a little jar or cup of water and let the bacterial process clean them off for you. Then you rinse them and let them dry. The most...

I know, right? Especially since she makes that comment about how wonderful heirloom tomatoes are. Where's the 'maters????

Y'know what? If I could afford a gardener to take care of my garden and pick my fresh veggies I would do it in a heartbeat. At least she's committed to making sure her kids eat fresh locally grown foods and she's giving school kids the opportunity to find out where food comes from and how to...

Hmmmm, sometimes potting mix has fertilizer in it which may have been to harsh for the seeds. I usually start in seed starter or coir and then transfer to dirt. But I've known plenty of people who just start in potting soil too. Are the cells warm enough? If it's cool in that window that...

Granny Smith apple trees pollinate every other apple tree or so I've been told. I'm sure there are others that will pollinate your apple tree specifically but for a general pollinator-that's the one. As for horses.....ugh, you're going to need a bigger fence. While the tree is little you'll...

Ummmm, I'm thinking 50 meat birds are going to create a lot of waste that will make whatever area they're in pretty hot.

I have mostly heirloom tomatoes so they basically set out to take over the world. It's nothing for one of my tomato plants to have eight foot of vine stretching out in all directions. There's no way to stake those puppies. Cages are the only way to go for those old indeterminates.