Shookeli Riggs

I bought some ginger from the store a couple weeks ago to try this year.I can grow tomatoes and all kinds of chiles in an open ended cattle panel hoop house.The tomatoes love it and it looks like a jungle come august.I always have so many chiles i cant give them all away and freeze bunches,i still have fresh chiles in the fridge and a few tomatoes in brown bags from the end of season clean up.

Will ginger thrive in hot humid conditions of the hoop house? It has got to be above 100F during the hottest parts of our summer in there,and humidity levels very high as well.

I bought a bushel of peaches 3 years ago,i planted as many as i could and got a few trees out of them,i only got one peach from them last summer because of pests and cold but that one peach was the best peach i had ever eaten.Keep trying and plant as many as you can you will have success.Im hoping i will have more this coming season but if i only get one i will enjoy it just as much as 100.

Many of my seedlings didnt make it past a week or two after emerging but other did really good and are about 8' tall now,keep planting and good luck!

Well said Jill,ever eat a store peach?They taste like cardboard,now a fresh ripe peach is the best thing on the planet.Tomatoes are the same,you got to get a ripe one right off the vine!
Also some salt.

Very nice!,i just saw this doing some research,winter storm on us here so im catching up on permies today  Good job on the heater!

Try a fermented green tomato relish,if you dont like ripe ones. I eat fresh ones with a dash of salt in each bite.

Be sure to have a varmit control system if you dont have dogs for the fowl,guinea  are pretty fast runners and can fly very well but the chickens and ducks are a little more vulnerable.I know everyone thinks birds in general will eat all bugs but i have had chickens for awhile and if i find a tick i try to get them to eat it,they just look at the tick then look at me like im stupid for trying to get them to eat a tiny little bug,now i have given them the swollen ticks from off of dogs and they eat them without hesitation.I dont have dogs anymore so my chickens are penned when im not around.I dont have dogs so deer are around more,during our deer season if you kill a deer in november it will be tick infested,usually right on sternum or hard to reach places.Deer are tick transportation devices because they cannot reach all over thier body much like a dogs back will have fleas and ticks.Kill all deer and you will likely have less ticks in a few years,just my theory but i hate ticks as much as i hate deer eating my garden,win win.

Oh another theory and this isnt mine,but opossums are said to eat ticks.I have had people tell me "dont get rid of your possums,your going to have ticks".I have ticks and i had tons of possums,now i dont have as many possums .They also eat chickens,you make the choice whether you want possums eating ticks or possums eating chickens.

Someone else might have more insight but i think if its green it can made into silage,just like making any ferment from vegetables.Fermenting greens  is very similar to making cabbage into sauerkraut.Keep the air away and it should ferment.

I made silage for my goats one year,and slowly introduced it to them with a few handfuls at a time  in the hay i was giving them.One little one had too much and it disrupted her  gut fauna and she soon became vitamin b deficient,it took two weeks of vit b shots and hand watering and feeding her and giving probiotics to get her to stand on her own again.Be careful with any new feed introductions,im not sure if pigs would be bothered though.

What if the piano tells you "but im not dead yet!" should you bash it with a shovel and proceed to dismantling it or try to learn to play it?

I had to edit because i just had a great idea,you could plant a shrubbery in it! Perhaps just a small one though!