Planting
Sow seeds of cool weather crops such as carrots, parsley, radishes, Swiss chard, lettuce, and beets Sow perennial seeds: Shasta daisy, coreopsis, columbines and black-eyed Susan
Fall vegetables can be planted now. You can also start to plant seedlings of cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts
Late-blooming perennials, such as Helianthus, Helenium, Heliopsis, and Rudbeckia, make great color displays in the fall landscape.
Plant autumn-flowering crocus, sternbergia, colchicum, and other fall-flowering bulbs as soon as they become available at garden centers. Crocus and sternbergia need full sun; colchicum can be planted in areas receiving light shade.
Taken from the website www.thekitchn.comAlong with the arrival of summer squashes this season are their dainty, edible flowers. The bright orange blossoms sold at farmers' and specialty markets are generally from zucchini plants, though the flowers of other summer squashes may be eaten, as well. The blossoms are often served fried – a dish we will never turn down, but there are several other ways to fully enjoy the beautiful color and delicate texture and flavor of this summer ingredient.
I know it's not Christmas, but thought I'd post a blog I'd written several years back. Enjoy.
Buster has been wonderful in giving me moments I'll treasure and hope to be able to tell my grandchildren about when they are young. Each year, there seems to be something he says, that i remember as a "kodak" moment. When we first got our first set of chicks, he peeked into the box to see the RIR baby chicks. He promptly stuck his finger in the air holes trying to touch them, and then looked up at me and said, "mommy, look! these chicks have red peckers!!" That's the day he learned that chickens may peck but they have beaks.
it's that time of year again when everything's just too darn hot. are incubators and hatchers will get turned off and cleaned...no new babies till september. we'll be taking a break as buster starts up his football season with the pearland football league and concentrating on raising the babies that we hatched in late winter/early spring to show at the fayette county fair in la grange. see you there!
The following is an article by Matthew Pressly and is part of a series that addresses the question of how to introduce new chickens into your existing flock, along with several related questions from Murray McMurray Hatchery. To see all their articles in this series, visit Flock Integration Series.] I personally find that adding new chickens to your existing flock only mildly unpleasant, if done correctly. It also can depend on what personality your existing flock has. Putting a silkie into a pen full of game hens...well, you're silkie will not be accepted. But putting your silkie in a pen with only one game hen along with several different varieties of hens, you're silkie is bound to find a companion that she can run with in that pen. The following has the explanation of how a chicken's mind works and knowing that is your first step in integration. Don't let this author intimidate you that it's difficult....
We had our third meeting this year for the Brazos Valley Poultry Club. (www.bluebonnetclassic.com) They put together the BlueBonnet Classic Show which is at Texas A&M the first saturday in January. Danny and Billy made hotdogs for us with homemade relish. They let me take home the squash relish which was so yummy, i put it on everything. I'm hoping to get their recipe and i can post it here. They had a "lawn show" where people that attended brought a bird to show and semi-compete. most people brought a bird so steve, the judge could give them a critique on what could be improved on the bird.
The next Arcola Trade Day is on june 11, from 9am - 4pm. Sale of animals, poultry waterfowl, etc etc.
For more information, contact arcola feed at 281.431.1014
We closed down our website last year because it was getting too costly, but being in a world of internet, figured it's time to have it back up again and this site seems to be working well. I can see that i'm going to have some growing pains; can't seem to figure out all the available gadgets they have, but bear with me and we'll get this thing rolling....
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