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Writing Again at Organic Chicken Garden

I have missed writing and I am up and running again.  How I missed it.  I do not know what happen but I will start with a list. Took my old slide projector to the Tech Shop in Greenville and Loyd fixed it.  It is a nice slide projector, just over 35 years old.  Checked [...]

Vintage Antique at Organic Chicken Garden, the Scythe

These vintage antique tools are hanging on the wall in Steve’s business shop for as long as I can remember. Steve has always been good at arranging anything from flowers to vintage tools.  You would not think that of him because he is  such a “he man”.  Anyway, it is the arrangement with in itself that [...]

Interview with Tony Avent, Plant Delights Nursery, Inc.

06 March 2011

When I bought my ‘Bartzellas’  and ‘Purple Princes’ from Plant Delights Nursery via mail order,  www.plantdelights.com  I did not know I would actually meet the owner, Tony Avent.  But let me give you some background first.  When I first found the web site, I was so  intrigued, I kept going back to check the many ‘new and [...]

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Posted in Flower Garden, Gladiolus 'Purple Prince", Paeonia Bartzella, Plant Delight Nursery3 Comments

Iris Bed Growing Part 4

15 February 2011

Today is the day after Valentine’s Day and will be a great day but not as warm as yesterday.  He Man and I usually go on Tuesday,  to visit his mother  in the Nursing Home, Golden Living in Greenville, N. C.  I have been up since 6:30 but seem unable to catch up.  I am working [...]

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Root Crops the last at Organic Chicken Garden

09 February 2011

Sunday February the 6, the sun came out and temperature got some where around 55 degrees and sent my spring fever into high gear.  Go outside, go outside before the rest of the cold weather makes you miserable for the rest of the week.  Well this day was not wasted. Pecans in the morning and [...]

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Posted in Fall Vegetable Garden, Flower Garden, Pictures, Self Sufficient Equipment, Tiller, Vegetable Gardens, organic chickens0 Comments

Pecans at Organic Chicken Garden

07 February 2011

Have you ever wonder why pecans costs so much in the grocery stores?  Well I am going to tell you. First you have to have enough land to support a tree.  Then you have drive to the local nursery and buy a tree.  Then you have to decide which type of pecan tree.  There 500 [...]

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Perennial Bed is Cleaned and Planning has begun Part 3

01 February 2011

Yesterday and day before yesterday with the weather so great, sent me into early spring fever. So yesterday in the morning hours with it still cool outside, I got on the internet again, checking sites to plan what else am I going to put in the new iris bed or what new bed I might plan. [...]

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Winter Blues for the Gardens at Organic Chicken Garden

31 January 2011

Spring will come but in the mean time  is the continuing suffering of all the plants in the vegetable and flower gardens.  The awaiting clean up of the annuals and perennial from last year should have been done by now but winter came during the fall this year.  This week will be clean up.  Below are [...]

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Posted in Flower Garden, New Iris Bed, Organic Humus and Manure, Pictures, organic chickens1 Comment

Flower Bed is Growing Part 2

30 January 2011

I saw the weather last night and they are calling for mornings to be above freezing for the next 5 or 6 days.  This feels like spring to me since December  it has been below freezing.   The coming spring fever has started early with me and my plan  about what I wanted to do [...]

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Posted in Flower Garden, New Iris Bed1 Comment

Robert E Lee’s Favorite Cake

22 January 2011

I have a little information that I think is correct about Robert E.Lee’s favorite cake.  This recipe is from my grandmother on my mother’s side and they were from the Richmond and Suffolk surrounding areas.  The information that I have is that Robert’s wife, Mary Custis Lee provide this cake  recipe upon his wish.  Mary [...]

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Scramble Eggs 101

20 January 2011

You know I  have chickens and  yet I have not written anything about my eggs.  My organic free range heavy breed chicken and a few Bantams, keep me well supplied in brown eggs ranging from extra small to extra large. Every day is an egg day.  I will save money in the long run by [...]

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Posted in Scrambled Eggs, organic chickens2 Comments

Kitten and Veterinarian

17 January 2011

Ok, I’m a sucker for my Kitten who is 10 years old now! It is winter time and has been the coldest winter that she and I have seen. So she has been staying in the house alot. Since Kitten has been with me she has  her litter box, but being the most perfect Kitten, [...]

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