Bruce
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I bet the vultures would find other areas to hunt if the sheep keep attacking them.
Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal
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Mike CHS
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We worked a couple of the raised beds again and got potatoes and onion sets in the ground. We are going to do one bed with broccoli and another with cauliflower. Our other plant starts are doing well and we timed it well enough this season they still have plenty of time to stay in the flats till warmer weather is here.
Ridgetop
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Do you start everything indoors? I am considering eventually doing a hoop house with heavy clear plastic/vinyl as a small greenhouse to start plants. I am wondering if I could do raised beds with the hoop house over the then remove the plastic sheeting during the summer or if it would be better to just do "cold frame" raised beds with old glass windows on top. You hinge the windows onto the raised bedframes then raise the windows and prop them open to harden off the seedings before transplanting.
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Mike CHS
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We do almost all of our starts indoors on our back porch in covered trays or on heat mats. One of our chest freezers is out there that gives us plenty of work space. 
We are set up to easily be able to harden off the plants outside when the temps accommodate and we have row covers that are the same size as our raised beds that we use for early planting. A lot of our plant starts are the result of germination tests on our oldest seed. I literally test the seeds in wet paper towels and then pot those up in potting soil or throw out all of the leftover seed in the pasture if it isn't real viable. Our biggest raised bed was intended to be the base for a hoop house but what we do works for us so it is now just a big raised bed. With all of our slab rock we wouldn't be having a garden if it wasn't for raised beds.
We are set up to easily be able to harden off the plants outside when the temps accommodate and we have row covers that are the same size as our raised beds that we use for early planting. A lot of our plant starts are the result of germination tests on our oldest seed. I literally test the seeds in wet paper towels and then pot those up in potting soil or throw out all of the leftover seed in the pasture if it isn't real viable. Our biggest raised bed was intended to be the base for a hoop house but what we do works for us so it is now just a big raised bed. With all of our slab rock we wouldn't be having a garden if it wasn't for raised beds.
Baymule
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You are about to get hit by the storm that came through here last night. It knocked down trees and power lines, blocking roads. Several tornadoes, 1 was 30 miles west of me, I had no damage. Get ready!
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Mike CHS
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We have already lost power and the storms aren't even here yet.
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Stay safe!
Ridgetop
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Bring the sheep and dogs into the shelter, and hunker down inside with LED lanterns and the fireplace going. Use your camping stove to cook. 
Seems crazy to have just been starting your spring seedlings and now you are hunkering down for a possible tornado! 
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Mike CHS
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The weather has mostly passed through and the heavy stuff just about went around us.
Ridgetop
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That was lucky. Saw some of the tornado in Elgin!
