Raising Chickens and Urban Gardening
I’m still plucking pinkish-orange tomatoes out from under their plastic cocoon, but I also know the abundance of greenies hanging out there are just not going to make it. I found this unusual recipe for Green Tomato Cake on Paula Deen’s website, so it’s loaded with butter, y’all! You can see the diced green tomatoes in the batter I did a…
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It’s amazing, it’s October 15th and our garden is still going strong. We’ve been laying plastic sheeting over the tomatoes for the last two nights, but so far we haven’t had any frost. I think that is about to change this weekend. If you still have an abundance of green tomatoes like we do, you might want to cover those…
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If you have outdoor pets, horses or livestock, you know that these animals need to be wormed on occasion. Well City Chickers, your back yard flock is no different. In fact urban coops could have a higher incidence of internal parasites due to space constraints. Good sanitation practices go a long way in keeping your flock healthy, but you can’t always guard against the…
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Mama Mia, we have tomatoes! Somehow in spite of our disastrous attempt at starting tomato plants from seeds and the less than favorable weather conditions of the 2010 garden season, we managed to have success with our tomatoes this year. The initial ripening was a good two weeks later than last year and we still have a large number of greenies on the vine, but we have been enjoying mouth watering…
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