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6:45 pm
January 21, 2012
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Crab Apple
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|  Bronze Apple | posts 784 | |
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Found this HULLESS OAT HEIRLOOM SEED
you do not need to hull these like regular oats!!!!!!!
http://sustainableseedco.com/H…..s-Oat.html
Avena Nuda
"Streaker" Hulless Oat
Spring Planted. 15-16% Protein Level (that is higher than corn)
Oats grow quick in cool, moist conditions. Used for hay or the oats themselves. Hulless oats are perfect because no expensive de-hulling machine is needed to remove the hull.
A must for any homesteader because it has so many uses. Perfect for breakfast, in muffins or bread. Feed the entire stalks to horses, goats or sheep for a high protein meal.
An 18-month study conducted in 1998 by the AAFC Research Centre in Lennoxville, QC concluded that hulless oats could replace both corn and the protein supplement in dairy rations with no impact on milk yield or components.
Thresh and feed the seed to the chickens. There is no better way to fatten up broilers or pigs for that matter.
Use the hay for the compost pile or as animal feed to ruminants.
Sprout them for salads or use them as fresh sprouted greens for poultry. Oats have so many uses!
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6:58 pm
January 21, 2012
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pm97
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| Bronze Apple | posts 663 | |
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Outstanding Crabby!! Thanks
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8:45 am
January 22, 2012
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Jarhead
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|  Diamond Apple | posts 2109 | |
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I think I'll look into that Crabby, last year I experimented with amaranth and jerusalem artichoke. They both did well but I haven't found much use for the amaranth. The jerusalem artichoke on the other hand was impressive it grew like a weed right though the dry weather and produced a bumper crop of " faux potatoes" . They really do taste great and they come back on their own. I've picked out a remote place in one of my fields that I plan to till this spring and plant a "gorilla garden" of jerusalem artichoke and amaranth. I think I'll change my corn patch to milo. Milo (grain sorghum) has 90 to 100% of the feed value of corn but needs much less water.
I ordered my garden seeds for this year. I also hilled up part of my garden. Last spring was so wet I was weeks late getting much of it planted then the weather turned dry just as it was beginning to produce. The hills will allow the garden to dry faster and the soil to warm quicker so I can plant earlier in the spring . I've also started working on some raised beds that will be permanent, may even try a little hugelkultur http://www.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/
Like jamie says "this is the fun part of prepping".
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" The Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
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9:04 am
January 22, 2012
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Crab Apple
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| Bronze Apple | posts 784 | |
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Jarhead there are many kinds of Amarnth check this variety out… larger seeds/grains
http://sustainableseedco.com/O…..-Seed.html
7 grams – approximately 200 seeds per seedpkg
One gram will sow 45 feet at (thinned) spacing of 12-18” on 24” rows.
This amaranth can produce a wide and wonderful array of leaf and plume colors.
Big stalks can get 8' tall. Perfect for borders or fence rows.
The leaves are delicious when young in salads and the seed/grain is know the world over for a nutritious food.
Leave them in the field and watch the array of birds that come to feed on them!
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12:20 pm
January 22, 2012
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Jarhead
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| Diamond Apple | posts 2109 | |
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This is the kind of Amaranth I planted it did great but the grain was tiny. It's advertised as a grain type but……
I tried some of the type with larger seeds but they didn't do well.
I think I'll try planting some cattails in a couple of my ponds too, you can't have to many edible weeds.
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" The Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
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12:34 pm
January 22, 2012
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jamie
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|  Golden Apple | posts 1647 | |
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I'm sending in my order the 1st of Feb. to Baker creek. I'm getting
Dwarf coffee plant
2 type of indian corn
Turnips
Bush beans
2 types Tobacco
and 3 medicinal plant Lion's tail, yarrow and skull cap.
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2:00 pm
January 22, 2012
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pm97
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| Bronze Apple | posts 663 | |
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@Jamie
I'm reviewing medicinal herbs and trying to decide what to plant. Why did you choose the three you did?
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2:43 pm
January 22, 2012
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MW
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|  Silver Apple | posts 1386 | |
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I bought another survival seed bank last month so now I'm looking forward to trying out the heirloom seeds from the bank I bought a few years ago.
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"In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other." -Ben Franklin
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4:49 pm
January 22, 2012
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jamie
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| Golden Apple | posts 1647 | |
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pm97 Lion's tail A member of the mint family, it is native to Southern Africa, and is used as a folk medicine among the native peoples for treating numerous ailments, and has shown promise in studies. Tall evergreen tropical plant produces pretty orange flowers. Caution: this plant is a mild narcotic.
Scullcap NEW! (Scutelaria laterifolia) This charming mint relative has been used for centuries as a sedative and to treat any number of nervous complaints. Also called “mad dog weed” for its traditional use against rabies. Plants reach 2 ft tall. Blooms in Summer. Small blue to purple flowers .
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) Beautiful when used as a dried flower. Also popular as an herb; used for colds, fevers, and for healing wounds.
I have a good selection of herbs already but these plants will help and they are very pretty and will look good in my front yard beds.
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3:32 pm
January 28, 2012
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Crab Apple
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| Bronze Apple | posts 784 | |
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More plant it, ignore it, HARVEST IT stuff. I am looking for USEFULL WEEDS I can plant on unused areas that will be there if I need to harvest them.
CHUFA
http://www.tn.gov/twra/pdfs/chufa.pdf
CANNA LILLY (borderline for me as the rhizomes freeze at 14 Fahrenheit) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canna_(plant)
Lambs Quarters
http://www.sacredearth.com/eth…..arters.php
Bamboo
http://agsyst.wsu.edu/bambroc.pdf
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5:17 pm
January 28, 2012
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Jarhead
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| Diamond Apple | posts 2109 | |
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Bamboo….now there is something I need to look into. Food, fences, building materials what's not to love about bamboo?
I love this idea of useful weeds.
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" The Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
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8:05 am
January 31, 2012
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Jarhead
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| Diamond Apple | posts 2109 | |
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I located a stand of bamboo on a farm near here and received permission to dig some rhizomes. I wonder if there is a particular time of year to plant them. I know trees do best when planted in the fall, but bamboo being grass I would think spring.
I'm begining to really develop a taste for the jerusalem artichokes, I haven't tried them alone yet but mixed with potatoes (fried or mashed) they are great. When I fixed them in mash potatoes the artichokes cook at a different rate than the potatoes and were a little sweeter than potatoes . That gives you lumpy mashed potatoes with a little different taste to the lumps. Loved em . When mixed with fried potatoes I hardly notice the artichokes, they just make the potatoes go farther. Next I plan on preparing them by themselves. Maybe baked in the oven cover in butter….any ideas jamie? crabby?
I have,t had time to look for any cattails yet, but that is coming up on my to do list.
This weed thing is fun  it's the part of prepping that turns me on……well that and the excuse to more buy guns
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" The Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
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8:14 am
January 31, 2012
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Crab Apple
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| Bronze Apple | posts 784 | |
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If you plant your bamboo near your farm dump. anyone who is alert enough to notice it will probably assume the "Farmers Wife" tossed out some bamboo and it grew on it's own.
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3:12 pm
February 18, 2012
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Crab Apple
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| Bronze Apple | posts 784 | |
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wooohooo….. my first WEEPING YAUPON HOLLY "ILEX VOMITORIA PENDULA" sprouted today I planted the seed last May, about 20 in milk jugs they take a LOOOOONG time to germinate. It is a caffeine producing shrub (indigenous to the southern us) that I will have to grow potted to bring indoors in the winter or in a greenhouse.
I am growing it to make a caffeine kickstart tea for those loooong nights to come when coffee might be unobtainable.
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