Ducks4you for 2022

[Rhodie Ranch]

I see that pine bedding. Nobody has any here. Trucking issues...Good thing I was only trying to get another block for back up purposes.

 

[Dahlia]

I see that pine bedding. Nobody has any here. Trucking issues...Good thing I was only trying to get another block for back up purposes.

Shipping of certain items is SO slow these days! Sometimes you can't even get the stuff you want and have to substitute something else.

 

[baymule]

Good work on #1, getting all that in the first place and #2, unloading and organizing it so well. You are all set now!

 

[ducks4you]

It's good to share information here. I watched this week's Mid American Gardener and a panelist, former Pharmecist, now Master Gardener mentioned that

Stark Bro's Nurseries & Orchards Co - Since 1816

Stark Bro's offers quality nursery products, and helpful advice, for the growing enthusiast. Order trees, plants, and supplies online now.

www.starkbros.com

has Excellent customer service.
He said that the company called to check on his order 6 months after it had arrived, to see if he needed replacement trees.
I bought my Johnagold trees from them, and they have been very hardy.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Almost everything tree I've bought for here, was from Stark Bro's. I still need to plant the red flame maples tho.

 

[ducks4you]

I have had two meager sweet potato harvests. Stores still sell them. I have learned that an ALDI plastic bag is a great way to sprout slips. I HOPE to make a good bed for them this month by my cistern. I have some boards that could house some deep soil that they like, in a raised bed, and I will buy sweet potatoes from the grocery store to start them.
DD is also good at leaving one in a plastic drawer that sprouts good slips.
Therefore at $45/25 pounds of sweet potato stock is too rich for my blood.
I bought my last online purchase of seeds yesterday:
Ailsa Craig Exhibition Onion × 1 PakPlus - 1,500 Seeds
$6.95 (HEIRLOOM)

Snowball Self-Blanching Cauliflower Seeds × 1 Packet - 100 Seeds
$3.99 (HEIRLOOM)

Red Express (cabbage) × 1 Packet - 300 Seeds
$3.99
(Compact plants can be planted close together and are ideal for Northern climates.)

Danish Ballhead Cabbage Seeds × 1 Packet - 300 Seeds
$3.99 (HEIRLOOM)

Purple Top White Globe Turnip Seeds × 1 Packet - 1,000 Seeds
$3.99

Clancy Hybrid Potato × 1 Packet - 20 to 25 Seeds
$3.99
(Seeds eliminate diseases from entering the crop from tubers. And seeds are smaller, easier to store and can be stored longer. Grow like tomato seed. Sow 6 to 8 weeks before last frost and transplant at the same time you transplant your tomato seedlings. )

Homemade Pickles Cucumber Seeds × 1 Packet - 100 Seeds
$3.99
(excellent disease resistance, including Downy Mildew.)
I think I will pick up some eating cucumber seeds locally. Otherwise, family liked eating THESE, so we should have enough. If I miss any and they get huge I know 3 horses that will also help.

Evergreen White Bunching × 1 Packet - 500 Seeds
$3.99
(Perfect for early green onions. ) I will probably start/grow these in the basement this winter for fresh greens.

Vegetable Spaghetti Winter Squash Seeds × 1 Packet - 30 Seeds
$3.99
(Heavy yields from long vines. Keeps well.)
Always wanted to grow these.

2023 Early Bird Special - 2 Free Seeds Packs × 1 Early Bird Special; 2 Free Seed Packets
Free
I will buy anything else that I may have forgotten about locally.
They had free shipping that grabbed me.

 

[ducks4you]

I often need to order gifts for DH. I got an extra ALDI wine advent calendar for our office complex receptionist before he asked me what to give to her.
Didn't know she loves wine, so, yeah, it's a hit.
I have gotten pretty good at this. I also often have to order my OWN Christmas gifts.
I just did a two-fer...ordered my own gift AND ordered from a small business located 90 minutes away.

Organic Milled Products & Grains – Janie's Mill

www.janiesmill.com

Stone Milled Flour | Organic Wheat Flour - Janie's Mill

Janie's Mill grows and stone-mills organic grains to provide wholesome, delicious, high-quality flours and grits to discerning bakers. Contact us for more details!

www.janiesmill.com

They sell specialty flour, etc.
I am a bread maker, so I will put the product to work to share with family.

 

[ducks4you]

If you have ever thought of buying cinnamon scented pinecones, I recoomend them. I bought a pack and divided it in half, half on the dining room table, 1/2 on my bedroom dresser.
I keep smelling it nad it overpowers any stinky dog!

 

[heirloomgal]

I'm envious you can grow sweet potatoes. This year I found some at the grocery store that had velvet skin, so were probably fresh, and were AMAZINGLY good. I realized I've never been super crazy about them because a lot of what we get here is likely on the old side. These velvet skinned gems were delicious, unlike any I'd eaten before. THEN after finding those I found some long purple things - I think they were sweet potatoes - but they were really, really long. Superlong. Now these were one of the most delicious root vegetebles I've ever tried. SO GOOD, rich taste and a deep flavour. VERY dark purple color. Amazing, and I've gone back to get more but they have a different purple kind now that looks just like a regular sweet potato only with light purple insides. It's good, but I want those other ones again!

 

[ducks4you]

Who said THAT?!?!? I got NOTHING but skinny little wisps of sweet potatoes this year. Their patch turned into a pumpkin/squash patch.
SOME people can grow them here. They are tropical and need the same kind of loose soil that carrots crave.
Got a full plate of stuff this weekend, but Wednesday should be near 50 degrees, and I could clean up the south wall of the cistern, put up wood for a rustic raised bed, and dump well aged compost (that I keep looking at in the south pasture as I am cleaning stalls.)
It is 9 ft long and I might be able to grow them There.'After I get my chores done AND wrap presents AND we finish our extended family Christmas on the 17th, I should have some time to start some onions and leeks downstairs,'
My greenhouse kit will have to wait until the Spring.'
No worries, though. I want to build it once and build it right.