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Time to shuck some corn!
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@kindafarming @bexferalgoddess you prolly know this, but supposedly, i haven't tried yet, but basil coudl put it in a pot, and leave it around places, and it's a very excellent garden pest repellant to all kinds of garden pests.
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@kindafarming Luv ya both. Hopefully you have a good corn to eat and can also make ready seeds for next year. It’s a drama sold on, if nigger bugs don’t eat the next gen. Damn bugs.
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Yeah, surprisingly fewer bugs this year. Usually we lose a bunch to worms, but not so far this year. I'll chalk it up to the neem oil (so I can justify the money I spent on it and the sprayer to myself).
We also left a few ears hanging to harvest for seed. Hopefully the damn birds leave it be.
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@kindafarming So cute!! Lookit the colors!!! I get giddy for good corn and seeds for next year.’
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Yep. My wife picked up some weird varieties this year. All of the ears we picked were pretty interesting.
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Yeah, I've heard a lot about basil and oregano being good pest repellents. I need to remember to plant some around things next year and see what happens.
What's funny is I had a pot of basil on the deck and and it was constantly covered in Japanese beetles. Mayne it's more of a trap crop?
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@kindafarming @bexferalgoddess maybe the jap beetles aren't repelled but it is really good at repelling tomato pests and mosquitos supposedly, it is a member of the mint family so it likes to go nuts and take over areas just like other mints.
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@kindafarming @bexferalgoddess it's not that i'm against using chemicals but my first thought is to go for a cheaper alternative that can also provide more stuff for me to use as well, hear bees also go nuts for basil flowers, so if you're keeping those it does triple duty, and that's the kinda stuff i'm into, i'm always looking up ideas and stuff i could try.
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@Zealist @kindafarming Dis is true except for when the nigger aphids establish ground. Onions and garlic intermittent this year was still being farmed by jewish ants…. Nothing keeps the hoards away. We boom and bust each harvest. DE, pyrethrum, companion planting etc. no inter generational integration makes the hoard less susceptible.
Simply greater harvest and claim, each harvest knowing their time, keeping reserve and food until next plantation. No one feeds a 110 degree garden unless it’s breads.
Also, Muh breads dense. Rude, but filling,
That’s a wrap. Sanwiches for goodmen *hurumph*
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@bexferalgoddess @kindafarming i've been pretty lucky overall not having too many pests go after my plants or too much trouble getting things going but who knows, i'm just trying to learn.
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@Zealist @kindafarming Good luck fren. I do wish you well.
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@bexferalgoddess @kindafarming yea me too, and i hope God keeps you and yours well and safe.
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And those ideas pan out, please share them 😀
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@kindafarming @bexferalgoddess can do.
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@Bead @HarryNuggets @kindafarming @bexferalgoddess what he shoulda done
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Nah, I have seen how that works out. I could totally take on a bear or like two to three wolves, but I aint fucking with no young buck.
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Yep, nature loves to steal the bounty we work for. Aphids, vine borers, squash bugs, Japanese beetles... deer. Nature's niggers...
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This fucking deer has been raiding my garden every day for the last week. He knows I can't do shit to him and he just stares at me with pure contempt in his eyes every time I run outside to try and shoe him off.
Nigger is going to learn shit the hard way come September. Fuck around and find out.
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@Bead @kindafarming @Zealist @bexferalgoddess Punch him in the face.
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@Zealist @Bead @HarryNuggets @kindafarming @bexferalgoddess Yesssssss! Body slam that fuggin dear!
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@lpheathen2 @Bead @HarryNuggets @kindafarming @bexferalgoddess i got a standing grudge against deer for totalling my last car, not that it wasn't a blessing anyways, since i got more than it was worth out of the insurance company and get something even better BUT, still the principle stands, damn dirty jew deers
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@lpheathen2 @Bead @HarryNuggets @kindafarming @bexferalgoddess i've never eaten wild meat at all ngl, i plan to get some goats cuz i hear they're tasty tho :D also milk
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@Zealist @Bead @HarryNuggets @kindafarming @bexferalgoddess They are tasty though!
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@Bead @kindafarming @HarryNuggets @bexferalgoddess @lpheathen2 i meant, just raise them as livestock nubians, they're cute friendly and good dairy goats, plan to get them bred as often as is healthy for them and whether a male to raise as meat and sell the rest of males i get and keep females to add to the herd.
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Goat tags are too hard to get here because of their threatened status, but deer and elk are plentiful and delicious.
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@Bead @kindafarming @HarryNuggets @bexferalgoddess @lpheathen2 i don't do curry at all, but i've had goat skewers and goat burger just a plain ol goat steak, wasn't bad stuff
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Oh my bad. I thought you meant wild goat. Domestic goat meat is okay, a little tough and stringy if you don't prepare I properly. I was friends with this Paki long long ago that made the most incredible goat curry you would ever taste.
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@Zealist @Bead @kindafarming @HarryNuggets @lpheathen2 Either way… still in goodness.
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@bexferalgoddess @Bead @kindafarming @HarryNuggets @lpheathen2 also doing chickens, i like the orpington breed cuz i can say "i got a buncha ladies eating out of the palm of my hand"
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@bexferalgoddess @Bead @kindafarming @HarryNuggets @lpheathen2 huh?
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@Zealist @Bead @kindafarming @HarryNuggets @lpheathen2 Cold weather chick goes on the list.
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@bexferalgoddess @Bead @kindafarming @HarryNuggets @lpheathen2 ngl i mostly picked my breeds for temperment, cuz i like friendly animals, but they also happent o be decent at the things i want too. so it worked out.
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Yeah, Orpingtons are a great breed. Great layers, good size for meat, very friendly, and they are great at hatching if you want to go that route.
We're setting up a specific coop separate from the main the raise Brahmas for meat birds. They're also decent layers, cold hardy, and very docile/friendly.
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@kindafarming @Bead @HarryNuggets @bexferalgoddess @lpheathen2 yea, i was gonna get a rooster and let them brood their own young see how it goes and eventually butcher some roosters for meat since, dont' want a lot fo them or inbreeding that much either really. i didn't really wanna kill spent hens cuz they not useless they stillwill sit eggs nd keep down pests.
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@kindafarming @Bead @HarryNuggets @bexferalgoddess @lpheathen2 sides old orpingtons are known for being great moms
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Yeah, we never kill our older hens. They served us well for years so they deserve their golden years
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@Bead @kindafarming @HarryNuggets @bexferalgoddess @lpheathen2 naw if i was gonna have rabbits it'd be for any kids i evneutally have as pets and nothing else, learn them some responsibility young etc. BUT id on't plan to ahve any unless i fancy having pets around and only sex segregated. but my whole damn barn is gonna be pets practically cuz they're all friendly also getting some more dogs cuz i love me dogs, simple as.
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Kind of offtopic, but for the love of God do not fall for the rabbit meme. They eat too much, they breed too fast, and they honestly aren't that good. Built a hutch, started breeding, and then discovered I had a freezer full of meat that I didn't actually like. Rabbit stew is good once in a while, but it is really boring and you get sick of it very quickly.
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@kindafarming @lpheathen2 @Bead @HarryNuggets @bexferalgoddess well i looka t it this way, i wanna have huge gardens, and chicken shit is great to throw in the compost heap, and an old hen still shits.
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@Zealist @kindafarming @Bead @HarryNuggets @bexferalgoddess Meh, hens past two years are meat birds bro. Let your roosters have at it. Eggs and meat for years.
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If I was in a pure subsistence setup, I would go this route. Wouldn't want to waste food. But in the good, easy times I can be soft 😀
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@Bead @kindafarming @HarryNuggets @bexferalgoddess @lpheathen2 yea all animal manure needs to be done like that far as i know, but i was just gonna throw it and the straw i use for hteir bedding into a compost heap with the rest of my scraps i don't feed to worms.
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Yeah, you really got to let that chicken shit rest for a while. I made the mistake when I first bought this place of thinking I could just throw it on the garden, only to end up killing a bunch of plants because it was too strong.
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Oh, yeah.... that's the one other benefit of rabbits. They shit like crazy and you just dump their manure straight on everything. And it's a great all around fertilizer.
I think it's the magic that makes things grow in my crappy soil 😉
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@kindafarming @Bead @HarryNuggets @bexferalgoddess @lpheathen2 i'm going for a semi agrarian homestead type deal ultimately soi'm looking at multiuse animals, plants etc etc etc to try and get the most out of everything and recycle my resources via composting etc, reduce my waste, ironically the lifestyle i'm aiming at, is not that bad for the enviroment, but them cultists would never want you to know that.
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Well no, it's they way we've lived for thousands of years. But it also prevents them from having power over you, because you don't rely on their gay system, so they don't like it.
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@kindafarming @Bead @HarryNuggets @bexferalgoddess @lpheathen2 hoenstly a part of me thinks my lifetime is gonna see porblems worse than we got now, and thank God i have kind of got a passion and talent for this stuff, cuz i'll keep me and mine fed through hard times.
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