New store bought Large Adenium - dry / crispy leaves.
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Comments (37)Here in W. WA, 50lbs of oyster shell costs $12, and it’s very stable, not subject to problems of dampness, not susceptible to aging. Cheap insurance. Calcium in the soil is good, but it often isn’t enough for a hen to produce 200+ eggs per year. I live in a high-rainfall area, and it leaches calcium from the soil badly, so without adding lime in fall, grass and crops will be calcium-deficient. Get hold of Gene Logsdon’s book “Small-scale Grain Raising” for a LOT of info on growing smaller amounts of grains at home, for your own use and your livestock. Greens: alfalfa, clover, cowpeas, field peas, kale, chard and other people greens. Whole dried corn isn’t great for chickens unless they have an adequate source of grit. Otherwise, they will eat it, but they can’t break it down enough to receive much nutrition from it. Fresh or cooked corn is okay. Seeds: cowpeas, English peas (plus tendrils and flowers), flax seed, pigeon pea. Not beans unless they’re cooked. Grow sunflowers and let them pick the heads clean. Some grains to consider for poultry: buckwheat, amaranth, barley, wheat (including the old wheats: kamut, emmer, einkorn), millet, oats (on the stem or rolled), quinoa, rye, sorghum (don’t use for sprouts), spelt, teff, triticale. Many of these grains can be harvested by cutting the stalks or stems, and bundling them together, and hanging them in a warm, dry place. But beware of mice. If you miss some, or even if you don’t want to harvest it, you can knock the plants down and let the chickens in to the self-serve buffet. While eating these high-quality feeds, the chickens will help till in the cover crops with their scratching, improving the soil with both plant residues and their droppings. Comfrey has quite a bit of protein and minerals, some chickens will eat it, some won’t. Cooked cull potatoes (no green parts), pumpkins, squashes, sweet potatoes can help to fill them up. You might even consider growing some mangels or fodder beets for them – they’re nutritious, and can be nailed or clamped to a post for pecking at, or grated. All these crops store well in the proper conditions. Wild nuts, acorns, black walnuts, etc, can be smashed with a hammer on a rock or brick Any berry you can eat, chickens can eat. Consider planting some just for them: mulberries, aronia (they prefer black over red), currents, bilberries, elderberries, saskatoon/serviceberry, sea-buckthorn or huckleberries. Protect the roots from those big, scratching feet with some large rocks or wire mesh, and you can grow them where they can harvest them on their own. Run them under your fruit trees to eat the fallen fruits and insects. If you live near a beach, collect some fresh seaweed and bring it home to them. Rinse it off and nail it to a post. There are thousands of varieties of kelp and seaweed and none are poisonous. You can even dry it for extended storage. Grow duckweed in a kid’s wading pool. Scoop out part of it and give to the chickens (or ducks), let the rest grow a day or two and then scoop out some more. It multiplies very fast. Soybeans must be cooked or roasted for any creature to eat, including us, or it causes bleeding of the stomach. I wouldn’t recommend genetically-modified kinds (about 90% of the U.S. crop) for any creature. Grow your own earthworms, nightcrawlers, mealworms or black soldier fly larvae, but don't let them be more than 25% of the diet. Black Soldier Fly larvae contain about 42% protein, 35% fat, 5% calcium, 19 amino acids, and 13 minerals, a real powerhouse of nutrition. They produce much faster than earthworms. They can quickly reduce 100 lbs of garbage or manure down to 5 lbs, which could be composted or continue finishing via earthworms. They can be frozen in containers for winter feeding. Boil those cracked, dirty eggs. Cool, then just chop them in quarters (shell and all) and toss them to the girls. The birds don’t seem to associate eating the shells with shell-eating of raw eggs. If you’ve got a grocery store, farmers market, juice bar or restaurant nearby, ask for their produce waste (lettuce trimmings, juice pulp, etc). Use chickens to clean up after feeding grain to larger livestock and to pick eggs and parasites out of the manure. It is recommended that you don’t feed chickens avocado skins or pits, rhubarb, citrus, salt, green potato skins, garlic or onions (causes Heinz anemia) or uncooked beans (contains toxic hemaglutin). But they aren’t likely to eat them unless they’re starving, anyway. Don’t go crazy trying to poison-proof your property for your animals. Pat Coleby, Australia’s expert on natural health for animals, says that if animals are getting a good diet, they won’t overeat on toxic plants. Yes, they may take a taste or two, but she says that seems to fall into the “medicinal” category. The creatures know what they can eat and what they can’t. Farmers extol the horrors of tansy, but only starving cattle will eat it, well-fed cattle won’t. And I’ve found that she is right. I have quite a few poisonous plants around, and my girls may nibble a bit, but they don’t overload....See Morewill a single store bought rose grow?
Comments (38)Hi all...I wanted to post to let you know that I read this post and decided to try an experiment with a bouquet of roses my boyfriend sent to me for my birthday. They were FTD roses...really gorgeous.... I took 5 of them and followed the steps that I read on GW from several postings: I put the roses in water (rainwater captured in a little plastic back yard swimming pool) and cut them under water. I trimmed the bottom inch off of the stem, then cut the actual bud off with about 2 inches of stem left on that and 2 sets of leaves on the main stem. Then I cut about a 6-7-inch long section (cutting on a slant while holding it under water) so there were 2 sections left. I then dipped the bottom end of the cutting in Rootone, shook it off and pushed it into a gallon pot filled with sand from my yard. I watered generously, misted the stems and leaves daily with purified water or rainwater plus we had rain here for several days. And one week later I have new sprouts on one of the leafless bottom sections. I was surprised and pleased to see it so quickly. I cut 4 roses like this; a 5th rose, I cut the same way, but instead placed it into a gallon ziploc bag with moist sand -- plunging the bottom ends coated with Rootone into the sand. I put it in the window sill in my kitchen, which faces north. I can't tell if any roots are sprouting yet, but it hasn't died. I don't know the names of any of these roses: they are white, pink, a bi-color pink and red and yellow. So, I'm going to keep them in the pots for several more weeks to see how much roots will grow. Here are the pictures: Rite...See Morebrown crispy leaves or yellow leaves cause?
Comments (10)~~~ Explain thermal protection? ~~~ A piece of rigid foam insulation might help if the gravel or concrete is getting too hot and cooking the roots. By watering the one pot twice daily you are cooling it much more than the others. The plants own respiration may be helping with that as well. You're stuck. Without the plant using the water, you're at high risk of over watering but without being able to water more frequently, you appear to be making tomato root stew. Not a happy situation to be in. The one with the tomato looks especially sorry and I'm wondering whats holding it erect. Except as an experimental to figure how to prevent this in the future, I'm doubtful of that plants value....See MoreLeaves turning brown on adenium
Comments (16)Yeah, I think you are right, Rick. It's a terminology issue. And even with 'sharp' sand such as used in construction, the actual grit size varies by location. What I have here is pretty gritty but still a little 'sandy' and it seems to work great especially with my seedlings. I get about 50 inches of rain fall a year and my cacti do great with it in my mix (though I shelter them from rain from November until April). So far my adeniums also are doing well with it, though I admit to being new to growing them. I've been looking at soil mixes on a ton of websites. I'm making a mix for adult plants that has a small amount of potting soil, sharp sand, touch of worm casings, but is mostly large chunky perlite with some charcoal. I found Jericson Pastor's mix to be interesting as it seems to be much finer than my own and I know he gets a higher rainfall than I do. His plants couldn't be healthier! A lot of the Taiwan growers are using mixes are surprisingly 'soil' like. Then top dressed. I sure would like to know what people like Ram are using. I should have paid more attention when I was living in China. Keep us posted on how your plant is doing, Wendy! ;)...See Morepaulie_nyr94
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