Brown Thumb
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We have rabbit for Easter dinner
let's see your veggie garden {pics}
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workhorse_01
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I relocate them bad boys right to the kitchen table. I also raise rabbits for meat. We cross Flemish giants with Californians and eat them at about six weeks.
DGBAMA
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what do those bad boys weigh dressed at such an early age? Love some rabbit.
workhorse_01
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About 7lbs. dressed. Check out this ladies for a comparison.
DGBAMA
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That is a nice turnover time for some good eating.
If you have raised "meat chickens", check out McMurray Hatchery for the "Jumbo Cornish X Rock". Average seems to be 6-7 lbs DRESSED WEIGHT at 8-10 weeks.
If you have raised "meat chickens", check out McMurray Hatchery for the "Jumbo Cornish X Rock". Average seems to be 6-7 lbs DRESSED WEIGHT at 8-10 weeks.
workhorse_01
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my buddy Robert that I've been trying to join here raises x-rocks we had a killing a few weeks ago and it was the best 10lb chicken I ever ate!
workhorse_01
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I'm going to eat some skrimps, y'all have a good night. and happy fathers day to everyone.
Some Veggie Garden Views
Two-wire grape trellis. Ontario (white) in foreground; Buffalo (purple) at the opposite end.
This is the second year for the grapes in the ground. During their first year, a simple stake will support them. Starting with their second year, a trellis is needed to guide them into a suitable form. The green steel posts are 7' long, and pounded into the ground 2'. So the upper wire is at about 5', and the lower wire at 3'. The vines are pruned so that one branch of each grape will occupy half of each wire. [The orange flags are to prevent me from walking into the bare wires.]
Once positioned for a day or two beside the wire, tendrils lock the vine in place.
This year, I planted a number of varieties of squash. These include Yellow Crookneck, Yellow Straight Neck, Zucchini, Butternut, Buttercup and Acorn.
Baby Acorn squash and Yellow Crookneck.
Cucumbers, and a Boxwood Basil hiding among them.
Since my asparagus, now 3 years old, seemed a bit weak, I stopped harvesting it early, and allowed all of them to go to seed. The roots were planted in staggered positions in two rows. In between, I planted onion sets in waves two weeks apart.
Asparagus gone to seed, with interspersed onions.
My garlic cloves were planted in the fall, after first frost. They were dug (not pulled) in mid June, and hung in my shed to dry. Because they are a softneck variety, I will braid them together for storage and display, once the green is gone.
Softneck garlic, drying.
Bob
Two-wire grape trellis. Ontario (white) in foreground; Buffalo (purple) at the opposite end.
This is the second year for the grapes in the ground. During their first year, a simple stake will support them. Starting with their second year, a trellis is needed to guide them into a suitable form. The green steel posts are 7' long, and pounded into the ground 2'. So the upper wire is at about 5', and the lower wire at 3'. The vines are pruned so that one branch of each grape will occupy half of each wire. [The orange flags are to prevent me from walking into the bare wires.]
Once positioned for a day or two beside the wire, tendrils lock the vine in place.
This year, I planted a number of varieties of squash. These include Yellow Crookneck, Yellow Straight Neck, Zucchini, Butternut, Buttercup and Acorn.
Baby Acorn squash and Yellow Crookneck.
Cucumbers, and a Boxwood Basil hiding among them.
Since my asparagus, now 3 years old, seemed a bit weak, I stopped harvesting it early, and allowed all of them to go to seed. The roots were planted in staggered positions in two rows. In between, I planted onion sets in waves two weeks apart.
Asparagus gone to seed, with interspersed onions.
My garlic cloves were planted in the fall, after first frost. They were dug (not pulled) in mid June, and hung in my shed to dry. Because they are a softneck variety, I will braid them together for storage and display, once the green is gone.
Softneck garlic, drying.
Bob
workhorse_01
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Are there any blooms on your grapes? They look very healthy. I've never attempted garlic but maybe this fall. It looks perfect hanging there. My wife's goat got out of the pen and went straight to my grapes, Which had blooms hiding behind the lower leaves. The first ones. They have been in the ground about 2 1/2 years and (were) finally flowering. The goat ate the flowers and all it could reach. No flowers left! 
I told my wife if it touched the grape vines again I'd remove it from the equation. Well that's not exactly the way I said it!
I told my wife if it touched the grape vines again I'd remove it from the equation. Well that's not exactly the way I said it!
DGBAMA
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Goat is from the venison family. It might have to make its way to the dinner tableAre there any blooms on your grapes? They look very healthy. I've never attempted garlic but maybe this fall. It looks perfect hanging there. My wife's goat got out of the pen and went straight to my grapes, Which had blooms hiding behind the lower leaves. The first ones. They have been in the ground about 2 1/2 years and (were) finally flowering. The goat ate the flowers and all it could reach. No flowers left!
workhorse_01
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We think alike. The problem is it's an orphan and the wife raised it on the bottle from 12 hours old! I've been married long enough to learn which battles to win and which to seem to loose!
Fisherman
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That is what they used to say about oysters. You can eat oysters any month tho and year round. I think it was a throwback to days when we had to ship them in ice on rail cars and the yanks would get them in pretty foul shape
No blossoms on the grapes yet. Maybe this summer.
The white plastic cylinders surrounding the grapes are made from needlepoint sheets sold at the fabric store, and wired together. I put them up last year to keep the rabbits from munching the young plants. The plastic becomes brittle after a year in the sun, so I'll remove them at the end of this summer.
But goats can reach a long way up. So far, deer have not bothered it. Maybe it's the tannin in the grape leaves. Goats are not as picky.
Bob
The white plastic cylinders surrounding the grapes are made from needlepoint sheets sold at the fabric store, and wired together. I put them up last year to keep the rabbits from munching the young plants. The plastic becomes brittle after a year in the sun, so I'll remove them at the end of this summer.
But goats can reach a long way up. So far, deer have not bothered it. Maybe it's the tannin in the grape leaves. Goats are not as picky.
Bob
Ontario is a white, seeded table grape. Buffalo is a purple, seeded table grape.
After pruning the vines two days ago, I ended up with about 75 full grape leaves that had been removed. These were blanched in boiling water for a couple of minutes, then stacked and rolled, and placed into a quart jar. To this was added a hot citric acid solution (could have used lemon juice). Once it cooled, it went into the fridge, where it will rest for a month. This much leaf would cost several dollars at the store.
My usual use for them is to fill each grape leaf with a tablespoon of raw rice mixed with raw hamburger, and roll it up like an egg roll. These are then stacked in a pot with olive oil, lemon juice, tomato sauce, water enough for the rice, and usually a can of Great Northern Beans, and cooked for 1 hour. The citric pickled leaf gives it a distinctive taste. A similar dish is popular in Greece (dolmas) and Turkey (yaprak).
A fresh grape leaf can be added to a jar of pickles at the time of packing, so that the leaf's tannin can add crispness to the pickle.
So, no grapes yet, but harvesting grape leaves. The leaf from white grapes is lighter in color than leaf from the purple grape.
Bob
Yeah, yeah but can you smoke it?
In the winter, when the tiny segments of grape vine have died and dried, you actually can smoke those. Of course, I haven't tried that since I was about 10 years old.
Bob
(Grin) For me it was corn silk. I much prefer what you taught me to roll
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