How Many People, If Any, Start Their Own Plants?

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  1. Don Alaska

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    Cool! I am not familiar with those peppers, but I have a few that I save from year to year as well. Container gardens are fine, @Daniel B Cooper. Many of us don't have the room to grow otherwise, or don't have the physical ability to put stuff in the ground. If I didn't have my wife to do a lot of the low work, I would be all, or mostly, in containers as well.
     
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    any suggestions on which wild plant cuttings ...
    used in compost pile
    will help deter vegetable garden pests
     
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    Hubby didn't want to get more chickens either, but I talked him into it about the protein and how good eggs are for you. Also, what if stores run out.
    We only have 3 hens now that something killed 4 of them over last 4 years. Lose one about every year and half.
    3 hens are plenty for us.We always have a dozen or more eggs in fridge.
     
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    Teresa we use all cuttings in our compost, except vine stems or seeded stems.
     
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    thanks marie...
     
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    I don't really have any ideas. Some use comfrey and rhubarb leaves, but they are not wild in most places.
     
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    My daughter grows her plants from seeds and this is what i harvested today.
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    Big ones Cherokee Purple or something else?
     
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    Blue beauty.
     
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    that comfrey really interests me...i do have some borage...ole timey 4 ft tall marigolds...
     
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    thanks for the link...i am gonna try to get chicken peas going for the roots...and new Zealand spinach
     
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    We normally put row covers on the plants for a while. This time we took them out and we saw the leaves getting eaten by baby caterpillars. We had to pick them off the kale.
     
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    i found that i can freeze eggs....good for a year or so...i am so happy to be able to do that
     
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    You can also dry eggs. If you dry them at 160 F. or above, you don't have to cook them first, but if your dehydrator doesn't go that high, you must scramble them prior to drying, but you can use them in baked goods either way. I suppose you could rehydrate them and eat them plain, but we do not.
     
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