Precipitation
It's been raining for days now, 4 inches yesterday, 3 scheduled for today. While it's great for replenishing the rain barrels, fortifying the garden, and giving us south Floridians (humans and chickens) a break from the sweltering heat, it certainly makes it hard to get any planting done. I've got a new batch of seeds I want to get in the beds: Millionaire okra (doing well currently, so I want to get another 3 or 4 rows in), yard-long beans (I've not tried them before and my summer green beans couldn't handle the heat), and za'atar (a perennial Middle-Eastern herb that grows well in the subtropics). I'll write more about the za'atar later. It's got an interesting biblical history.
So what to do with myself today? Oh yeah, work. That thing that pays the bills.
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auckkkkkkkk WORK we should wash your mouth out with soap. I hate the word myself. July is buy for us but not because of gardening or caring for chickens. We are currently getting ready for court ordered settlement mediation meeting next week and if we do not settle then we will be in full mode preparing for trial in August. I will be ever so glad when this is OVER and DONE. I will tell you NEVER NEVER NEVER fall in the grocery store and expect them to do the right thing ... like I don't know PAY your medical bills. It is just a vicious merry-go-round and you can't get off of.
Let me know if your beans do well in the heat.
I live in the Caribbean and am used to being around chickens (my grandparents lived on a farm). Ever since getting married and establishing a household of my own, I have in the process acquired 6 dachshunds (another animal I have been close to throughout my entire lifetime). I have been longing to get my own chickens, however the very thought of combining the two makes me shudder. How do you do it? Any secrets I should know about?
Vicki
Hi Vicki. We've put up a solar poultry fence and it works beautifully. The dogs got shocked (very low - like rubbing your feet on a carpet in sneakers) 2 or 3 times each and they've decided that the chickens are magic and can shock them. They've never gone near the chicken side of the yard again.
Where in the Caribbean are you from? My mother's side of the family is from Grand Cayman by way of Jamaica by way of Spain and Portugal in the 1400s. A good part of the residents in GC are my relatives. I visit relatively regularly. And chickens roam freely there from yard to yard depending on the neighborhood.
Ahhhhhh shock treatment. Have been thinking along those lines, however haven't been able to source it here. Dachies are so persistant though! They have already eaten through several sections in my chain link fence just to go outside to hunt (we live up in a valley with few neighbours and a river running right behind us). Maybe alternating free range of the two species may help. I can just see their little brains plotting whole day how to fetch themselves a chicken.
Vicki
p.s. yesterday I came home to a newborn litter of 5 dachies! Hubby freaked out :)
I live in Trinidad - as in Trinidad and Tobago. People in the Caribbean tend to be a mixed lot. I myself come from a happy mixture of French, Nepalese, East Indian, and British - all of whom decided that this island was the place for them. Seems a good choice to me. (My husband is a mixture of chinese, portuguese, french, african and scotish. And yes our children are beauties!)
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