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Mike CHS
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Thanks Fred. We have made our share of errors but thankfully, our sheep have gotten better in spite of them.
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Mike CHS
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There is enough growth in the garden beds to post a few spring pictures. The peach tree besides the bed of cabbage is 5 years old and this is the first time we have had peaches on it. We are able to get a good stand of cool weather veggies even as it gets hot due to the beds we use are in a micro climate among our fruit trees.
I got 15 of the tomato plants in the ground the other day and still have 10 to plant.
I got 15 of the tomato plants in the ground the other day and still have 10 to plant.
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CntryBoy777
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Sure is looking good Mike!!....those peaches especially...what variety are they?...
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Sure is looking good Mike!!....those peaches especially...what variety are they?...
That one is an Elberta. It's the only early variety that we planted and I seriously considered taking it out last year. Six years old and frost got it every year until this year. Orchards around here dozed most of their early peaches and planted later bearing ones.
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Now that the ewe lambs are starting some sort of routine, I'm working on the taming process so they see me as safe, if not one of them. They will come in now while I'm putting feed out and don't respond as I walk among them. I feed Maisy and Mel inside the shop and a couple of them have started coming in to see what is here as their curiosity always helps get them on my side. For the last couple of days, after I put feed out, I just sit there on the door stoop with a bowl of feed held out next to me. There is a couple of them that have no fear and also have a desire to see what this non sheep entity is up to. Both of them will come up and sniff and more recently will come up to eat out of the bowl which is a fairly small Tupperware type of bowl. It only took 3 feedings and they went from running out of the stall when I opened the door to feed, to following me around while I'm putting feed out. It's funny that most of the other lambs will ignore the feed in the troughs trying to figure out what the two are getting out of that bowl from a non sheep thingy. 
This is the first lambing season that we didn't get a lot of hands on with the lambs early on but there was just so many of them. Also, since we lamb in the field, the only human touch is the day of birth when they get ear tags and that's it until they are separated from their dams.
This is the first lambing season that we didn't get a lot of hands on with the lambs early on but there was just so many of them. Also, since we lamb in the field, the only human touch is the day of birth when they get ear tags and that's it until they are separated from their dams.
CntryBoy777
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I've always enjoyed the feel of being accepted as a member of the group......sure makes things much easier and allows for monitoring their developement regularly..... 
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You have a very nice garden going on there Mike and Teresa!
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The peaches look gorgeous..... makes me want to cry since it looks like there will be none in this area after the frosts/freezes we had. Everyone I talked to said peaches will be hard to find. My trees were loaded until that cold snap a couple of weeks ago. Oh well, you know what that is like after losing them for several years before this.
Garden is starting to come along. We are supposed to be done with any weather cold enough for a frost so most everyone is getting the "warm weather" crops in. We are due to have several days of rain/showers so it is a good time to get things in and let the rain settle them in....
Garden is starting to come along. We are supposed to be done with any weather cold enough for a frost so most everyone is getting the "warm weather" crops in. We are due to have several days of rain/showers so it is a good time to get things in and let the rain settle them in....
Senile_Texas_Aggie
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Mr. @Mike CHS, sir,
I am about to show my ignorance of peaches (what else is new?) but isn't there a way to prevent or lessen the likelihood of frost damage? I seemed to recall that peach farmers would put out smudge pots and light them so that they would burn during the night to provide enough warmth to prevent frost? I seem to recall that orange growers in Florida will light kerosene or propane heaters during cold spells in their orange orchards. Is there something you and Miss @farmerjan could do akin to that?
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I am about to show my ignorance of peaches (what else is new?) but isn't there a way to prevent or lessen the likelihood of frost damage? I seemed to recall that peach farmers would put out smudge pots and light them so that they would burn during the night to provide enough warmth to prevent frost? I seem to recall that orange growers in Florida will light kerosene or propane heaters during cold spells in their orange orchards. Is there something you and Miss @farmerjan could do akin to that?
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Mike CHS
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The growers down south do that with a lot of success. A couple of the biggest peach growers in Tennessee are a few miles from us and they don't even try. The seasons have been changing and the last frost is a few days later every year that we have been here. That's why both of those growers got rid of all of their early bearing trees.
