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day lilies I can eat the flowers and bulbs

Berkeley co. WV. 1 inch

I remember my mother raising pigs when i was young the big red ones and all she fed them was slop from a 55 gal barrel and table scraps and those hogs got big around 300-to 400 lbs. she just emptied 2 sacks of mash into the barrel and added water and she made the feeders herself from 2x12...

love the size of those egg plants she is carrying

bindweed http://www.happysimpleliving.com/2013/06/22/7-ways-to-politely-discourage-bindweed-in-your-garden/

to keep owls and hawks out of you chicken pen just string fishing line all over the pen at different angles the hawks see then in the day and the owls see them at night wont fly into the chicken yard and if they try then they get tangled in the line ---old trick my mama used -never lost a hen

I grew up around pecan trees in Florida and we always had a sack of pecans to eat from and my grand mother had 6 trees about40 years old and produced an abundant crops I really miss them and whenever pecans are on sale i stock up

the olden days were hard but it was an exciting time too.in a way I really miss them you valued things more and made them last till you could pass them down plus you took care of things better

if you can't eat it I don't grow it just herbs in the winter in the house then transplant outside in the spring

I must be as old as dirt as I remember all those prices as far back as 1954 when I was 6and if it wasn't for green stamps the kids would not have had christmas.heck I even remember mom getting dishs and silverware from boxs of soap and flowered flour sacks to make us the girls dress,s and the...

gardens can be grown above ground as I do it all the time here on the side of a mountain in wv.------would love to own 20 acres od scrub land

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all and may the GREAT SPIRIT protect you and yours

now that winter is here I will be using the wood cook stove down in the building

all cast iron I get I use --no dust collectors for me

if you vacuum pack the jerky is should keep like forever that is if you dry it as dry as i do so i can break it into pieces to add to some of my soups

my garden is all raised beds so tilling is done by hand

I use the ashs to spread on the garden in the winter before spring planting to add potassium in the soil and if there is an odd burned up nail well iron never hurt plants

I have a airtight flat top wood stove and last year I found a tin oven at a yard sale for a 1.00 and if I use the stove to cook on then i make my biscuits first than take the oven off to use the top to cook whatever--don't worry about any insurance as the house came with a fire place but it...

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good luck on finding one .I too hate to have to buy anything without first seeing and touching something