Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

We did the same area last year and we were only here for 5 days a month. Between us and the neighbors we wound up with 50 pounds of purple hulls peas and I have no idea how many ears of corn. We had so many bushels of peas that I bought a pea sheller.

 

[Mike CHS]

So beautiful. Did I ever mention I love your state?

Are you allowed to incubate wild turkey eggs? Fish and Game here would have my head. We aren't even legally allowed to order eastern wild turkeys from the hatchery and keep them here.

That is a big garden! I like lots of little gardens, raised beds. A big garden like that would give me a panic attack, it would end up full of weeds! Lol

We thought about that and will call tomorrow to find out but they would not have a chance where they were so we will find out. We know a DNR rep so we can do whatever is right (or legal).

 

[Mike CHS]

Pulaski Tennessee claims some sort of fame for Turkeys. They are all over the place.

 

[NH homesteader]

I love them, except when they harass my turkeys. Which is, unfortunately, kind of often. Actually a lot of the wild turkeys around here have some domestic turkey features. Someone released a whole bunch of heritage turkeys years ago and you can tell!

 

[Baymule]

I wonder if that improved the wild stock? Hmmm..... kinda like "wild farming" a new and improved strain of wild turkeys! Maybe that's what @Latestarter did with his pig--improved the local feral hog population! LS, just wait a year or so and go hunting for the new and improved wild Oklahoma hogs!

Mike, I know you and Teresa love waking up to that view every morning. Simply beautiful!

 

[Mike CHS]

Thanks Bay and we do. Teresa has done what she calls a "Prayer Walk" every morning for years but says it always seem more appropriate here.

The turkey egg incubation is canceled. We saw the female turkey up on the hill looking for her eggs. We took a chance and took them back up there and put them back on the nest (what was left of it). About an hour later we looked and she seems to have accepted them back. I was really surprised and hopefully there is enough vegetation up there to keep her and them hidden. It won't get cut again till she is out of there.

 

[NH homesteader]

Oh great! I'm glad she came back! Turkey mamas on a nest are nasty creatures, I tell you! Lol

 

[Latestarter]

Sweet views. Very nice property. Glad momma turkey took the eggs back. Didn't think you could legally hatch wild turkey eggs. Even with the best intentions... Have to agree that is a huge, daunting garden space. I very much dislike weeding... primarily because of a bad back and knees. It just plain hurts. I guess picking corn wouldn't bother either too much though. I have to believe that having a garden that size is quite a bit easier to manage when you have a tractor and the appropriate three point add-ons. I still remember you & the pea sheller you got last year. That was a LOT of peas...

 

[Baymule]

Yeah, ya'll really did a lot of pea-ing last year! LOL Are ya'll gonna pea a lot this year?

 

[Mike CHS]

We will do mostly peas. Half of that garden space will be farrow but it looked pretty enough I had to get a picture. We share our space there with a neighbor who has been kind enough to become part of our family. He is an 87 year old man (just had a birthday) and he is the one that worked all of those furrows. He normally just chisel plows a couple of rows, enough to plant but we were talking about fencing it all off and using it as pasture since it wasn't being used so I guess he thought we would use it.