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Post by Ozarks Tom on Mar 14, 2022 1:52:04 GMT
We planted bell peppers today, using our last 24 seeds. Panic time!! We love bell peppers, and thought we had several baggies of them saved from last year, but apparently not.
What's aggravating is, how hard is it to save bell pepper seeds"? Fingers are being pointed at the cats.
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Post by woolybear on Mar 14, 2022 12:18:05 GMT
Ozarks Tom, you need some pepper seeds? I have some 2020 revolution pepper seeds sitting in front of my face right now. Revolution is an F1 pepper, so no idea what these would grow out as, since I saved the seeds from what I grew. Give me time and I'm sure I can find all kinds of peppers in my stash. Pretty sure I have some Big Bertha floating around
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Mar 14, 2022 12:56:02 GMT
woolybear, Assuming these germinate we'll have plenty for our bucket garden. If they don't, I'll be in touch, thanks.
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Post by joebill on Mar 14, 2022 14:05:41 GMT
NO cause to think that chickens that have been dining on carp would taste any better than ducks that have been dining on carp.
On the other hand, I used to kick the VN collared doves killed by the electric fence into the pen and let the hogs eat them with no ill effects on the taste of the pork.....Joe
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Post by laurazone5 on Mar 14, 2022 14:14:33 GMT
I ordered 30.00 worth of seeds from Bakers Creek www.rareseeds.com when they were fundraising for Ukraine. Didn't need them, but did my little part!
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Post by woolybear on Mar 14, 2022 18:29:13 GMT
NO cause to think that chickens that have been dining on carp would taste any better than ducks that have been dining on carp. On the other hand, I used to kick the VN collared doves killed by the electric fence into the pen and let the hogs eat them with no ill effects on the taste of the pork.....Joe OH HAIL NO no way would I feed fish to a hog before butchering it. If for no other reason than the stories my father told me about his time in the Navy. This happened sometime in the 50's. He was stationed down in Florida (not sure which base as he was stationed to a couple of them). He and his mates got a couple of pigs that they were keeping out in a "wild" area of the base. The boys liked to go fishing..a lot. They'd keep the fish and take them back to the pig pen to feed the pigs. Came time to butcher the pigs for a BBQ they had planned. Only problem was the pigs tasted so bad after fish there was no way any of them were able to eat the meat. He passed away in 2020 at the age of 96 years 11 months and he was still talking about how gross that pig was LOL
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Post by Jolly on Mar 15, 2022 15:10:00 GMT
NO cause to think that chickens that have been dining on carp would taste any better than ducks that have been dining on carp. On the other hand, I used to kick the VN collared doves killed by the electric fence into the pen and let the hogs eat them with no ill effects on the taste of the pork.....Joe OH HAIL NO no way would I feed fish to a hog before butchering it. If for no other reason than the stories my father told me about his time in the Navy. This happened sometime in the 50's. He was stationed down in Florida (not sure which base as he was stationed to a couple of them). He and his mates got a couple of pigs that they were keeping out in a "wild" area of the base. The boys liked to go fishing..a lot. They'd keep the fish and take them back to the pig pen to feed the pigs. Came time to butcher the pigs for a BBQ they had planned. Only problem was the pigs tasted so bad after fish there was no way any of them were able to eat the meat. He passed away in 2020 at the age of 96 years 11 months and he was still talking about how gross that pig was LOL You can't eat a pig after it's been on a diet of fish heads and guts. Thing even smells like fish cooking in the pot. What you can do, is take them and put them on corn for 6-8 weeks and it will take the fish taste out of them.
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Post by woolybear on Mar 15, 2022 20:55:35 GMT
You can't eat a pig after it's been on a diet of fish heads and guts. Thing even smells like fish cooking in the pot. What you can do, is take them and put them on corn for 6-8 weeks and it will take the fish taste out of them. Jolly, oh I sure wish I knew this info before 2020 I would have told my father and then watch him laugh his fool head off.
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Post by Billy G on Mar 15, 2022 22:10:43 GMT
The idiot that lives here bought several edible perennials as bare root stock.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Mar 15, 2022 23:11:42 GMT
The idiot that lives here bought several edible perennials as bare root stock.
I'm a bit confused, what's wrong with that?
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Post by Billy G on Mar 15, 2022 23:40:59 GMT
Said in jest, see the page previous to this one. We're not alone!
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Post by Jolly on Mar 16, 2022 4:26:10 GMT
You can't eat a pig after it's been on a diet of fish heads and guts. Thing even smells like fish cooking in the pot. What you can do, is take them and put them on corn for 6-8 weeks and it will take the fish taste out of them. Jolly , oh I sure wish I knew this info before 2020 I would have told my father and then watch him laugh his fool head off. I used to work with a guy in the maintenance department of the hospital who was also a commercial fisherman. To make a bit of extra money, he also raised hogs. The hogs got scraps from the table and fish guts and heads. He's the one who told me about corning them out before bringing them to the sale. We ran into that problem with a roast pig one Christmas. We couldn't eat it, it smelled and tasted so fishy. Threw it to the dogs and they wouldn't eat it.
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Post by Jolly on Mar 16, 2022 4:30:28 GMT
BTW, coons will do the same thing, but to a lesser degree. If you were trapping just for hides, making sets down by the lake was fine, but if you were selling the meat, it was always best to get away from the lake a ways. A coon that's eating mostly acorns and what not, will taste a lot better.
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Post by joebill on Mar 16, 2022 7:19:46 GMT
My Mom's Uncle Cordy trapped, ate and collected the bounty on nothing but pure corn-fed Illinois coons.
He never owned a car but always had a bike he had pieced together out of parts she maintained he found in alleys around town or stole when nobody was looking. A few times a year he would collect all of the parts the bounty was being paid on and peddle them cross-country to whichever county was paying the most bounty, claim he had trapped them ALL in that county and experience a windfall.
Mom lamented the fact that Cordy never seemed to have a "real job" and prayed for his soul and that her little boy would not turn out to be like him. I offered up in my prayers the opinion that what Mom did not know would not hurt her.
Turned out I needed to earn more money than Cordy's life style offered, so Mom never knew how happy I could have been just hunting and fishing and trapping for a living.....Joe
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Post by woolybear on Mar 16, 2022 12:40:43 GMT
Thread drift warning and then I promise to stop. When DH was young to make a bit of money he also trapped in the nearby creek - muskrats and coons. Hides were stretched then boxed up and sent out on the greyhound bus to the fur buyer (can't remember the name). Muskrats were fed to the dogs and the coon became Sunday dinner. One brother refused to eat the coon, said he hated, but once everyone left the table DH would always catch him out in the kitchen chowing down on the meat. I did try cooking muskrat when we were first married. That dinner was carried straight out to the dogs for them to eat and I never tried muskrat again.
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