any gardeners?

“Spirit, What sex would you like? I think the males make nicer pets as they aren't as shy and skittish as females (at least in our case). I'll take pictures of them once they get big and start moving around and you can take your pick. Dutch rabbits aren't huge, they generally top out at around 6 pounds, but they have the coolest personalities and make awesome pets. If you want to breed for meat they mature to full size very quickly and have more meat mass, less bone mass. It's best to get a pair from different litters but, if you aren't planning on selling them as pets or breeders, then it probably wouldn't make that great of a difference if you bred siblings.

So far they're all still alive! Yay!!


I think I got my heirlooms mixed up. I googled an image of bloody butcher, and they are pretty little red toms, which were tasty. But, the old guy around the corner I bought them from gave me a mix (I think accidentally), of the bloody butchers and a nasty looking beefsteak style, streaked green, red, yellow and brown that is out of this world delicious. I'll send you a few seeds from them if you want. They are amazing. Only produce once though. We got about ten tomatoes off the one plant. Best I've ever tasted in my life. Looking at pictures I think it may be a rainbow tomato.
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“Sass, I have a whole collection of diffrent heirlooms, too many to plant every year really. I have a few white kinds to try this year also that will be new to me. Should be fun.

Sass, I've heard the dutch rabbits are wonderful, if you have a boy bunny I would buy one off of you. I really miss my bunny. Its hard to look at his empty cage. Mike seems to think ours was murdered in retrebution for him calling the cops on some druggies that were messed up and wandering on the property the day before it happened, but I really see no proof of that. He'd been so healthy, it was just a surprise to find him dead :(”

“Alright, now are you guys going to come and get him or would you rather wait for the next litter that will probably come closer to the time we go back down to Ruby's in the spring?”

“HEY SASSAFRAS! :)”

“GUESS WHAT? :)”

“NO REALLY, GUESS! :)”

“NO, THAT'S NOT IT! :)”

“YOU HAVE TO TYPE IT IN AND CLICK SUBMIT FOR ME TO SEE YOUR GUESSES! :)”

“STOP LAUGHING AND GUESS ALREADY! :)”

“SINCE YOU HAVE GIVEN UP I WILL TELL YOU!

i delivered the jar of pear sauce last friday... ;)

how long did that take me?”

“You big dork! I gave her one myself, you were supposed to eat that one. LMAO! =D”

“Sass, I would gladdly go pick up the little guy when I get a free weekend :)

Yummy, more pear sauce for me!! :D”

“Sass, I would gladdly go pick up the little guy when I get a free weekend :)

Yummy, more pear sauce for me!! :D”

“Okay. I'll send you pictures and stuff when they're bigger and sexed. Maybe we can do an overnighter nearby if you want. OR, I'll be in Chicago Thanksgiving weekend, but then he'd only be four weeks old and that's too young. Forget that.

I just got my apples and will be making sauce this week. Yummy yum yum! No pears again this year. Dang late frost.”

“just pack it tight in a box wrapped in newspaper like a burrito. it should make it if you use overnight shipping and punch tiny air holes. label it "possibly live animal - do not x-ray excessively"

i drank crash's bailey's that wounded knee sent with the pear sauce. i would gladly guzzle crash's booze but, my dear, i would never defile your pear sauce!”

“You were scared of what Spirit Coyote might do to you, admit it! ;)”

“I just had 18 cu yards of mulch delivered (a dump truck FULL).

Who wants to come over this weekend and help me wheelbarrow it into the beds?”

“That's a lot of mulch.”

“I hear ya on that, Violin. HPM's not looking forward to all the horse manure that a local stable's letting me take for free, either.”

“LOL!”

“only wounded knee could find JOY out of horse poop”

“Hey, it's great for the garden!”

“When my ten year old saw it being dumped, she asked why a man was dumping all that cow poop in the driveway.

I only wish I had a good source for horse manure.”

“I'm surrounded by horse stables around this area. Some are in horse manure/ compost business (there's a 200+ foot mountain of it at one location) some say "just take what you want."”

“We could mail you some in a bucket.

That way you could say that all you ever got from us was a bucket of horse crap.”

“I thought you dropped off the face of the earth, Violin! :-)

I'll give you a hint on a good source for horse manure...it starts with a "Trail" and ends with a "Talk."”

“I was under the impression that we were full of bullcrap.”

“Oh sure, that too!”

“Violin, I can ship you a couple wonderful fertilizer makers. Just say the word! You can pass them off as Christmas gifts to the kids.”

“Ponies?”

“Bunnies. My hutch runneth over.”

“lol, when I used to have 50 of them, we never had enough room for all the poop balls in the mulch pile. Good fertilizer, though. High in nitrogen with all the urine mixed in.

Speaking of good stuff, start saving all of your 1 n 2, compost it well, its very good...”

“MY one and two?! I have eight rabbits, I don't need to save my poo!”

“Sass, put out some sort of listing, saying free fresh organic fertilizer. Someone will want it for their garden.”

“Reino has been on a slide-show kick. Her latest is culled from photos of my gardening over the past few summers. The glorious yellow iris are courtesy of SirPete from a swap back when I was just really getting going on the plantings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWvnHPrNv3c”

“Very cool Pekka! Gorgeous garden.”

“Very nice video! I dig the music. The poppies looked really nice too. I think your arborvitae needs a bit of a trim though. ;)”

“Really nice, Jeff. Nothing as enjoyable as spending time in a garden you built yourself:)”

“Yeah, it makes me want to hurry on my own garden. ;P”

“Thanks for the kind comments. I'll pass them on to Reino.

treebait, I agree on the trimming, if you are talking about the big "ball" cedars out front of the house -- and I've been working on them. They had been allowed to get into a pretty unsupportable shape (no central trunk) by the previous owner, and I've worked on tying them up internally several times, thinning them out, and trying to shape them. They are so tall I can't get the tops any more, and so wide that I can only cut back a bit without removing all the green. They probably should be taken out in the near future and replaced, but the birds sure do love the shelter in them. Heavy snows really bend down the branches, however, and may yet just do them in.”

“That's a pretty violet.”

“Its a huge one. The flowers and leaves on this one are twice the size of any other ones I have.”

“Hey SC! My mystery violet opened today! I haven't killed them yet. =)”

“You haven't killed it yet? Now THAT'S a mystery. Ha!”

“=P”

“I'm going to try to put in some marker stakes, where I want the veggie beds to go. I can't till or anything; too wet and muddy.”

“Looks like I have a marauder squirrel...

He doesn't go after the bird feeders much to my surprise. Nope, he's digging where my garden was last year, pulling up roots, pepper fruit I didn't bother to throw out, and big fat grubs to eat. This is a big gray squirrel, not a mole or vole. Weird critter. Of course this is also the fellow who tries to get in the garbage can. Was he raised by raccoons or what?”

“good for you sass! the mystery one opened for me too yesterday. Its very pretty! They are very easy to grow and get hooked on!! :)”