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These are two pretty informative pages that might help... http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1612.html http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/3...706/index3.html There are quite a few more like it but it's a good start...sounds like your herbs are doing great!

Oh:( That's a tough one....reminded me of when our daughter, then 3, took us out to see the *pretty picture* of Daddy she had scratched on the side of the just painted car... Could you order some seeds from online?

The other options I am told about (for chickens and iguanas NOT for the wild horses:(, no rabbits - YET) are...live traps so you can redeposit the little critter(s) elsewhere. My friend did this with 24 chickens over a few weeks time, taking them to a very nice Puerto Rican man who exercised option #2...involving....BANG! and a stew pot. I vote unsightly chicken wire.

Now I'm jealous! That beats 1000 pounds of zuchinni!

Not quite all awake this morning while watering the basil, I noticed yet another area where the chickens seemed to have shifted the dirt. But I also saw what looked very much like ginger root, half uncovered. I've never tried to grow ginger but that is exactly what it turned out to be, and there is a lot of it! All I can figure is that some of my compost had enough ginger to get started there. I threw dirt back on it and stopped wondering why nothing seemed to grow in that corner! Now I have to read about growing ginger...anyone here with some experience doing that?

Why not just rent a roto tiller and tear your space up, rake and pull out what you can of the grass roots, mix your mulch in, plant your plants and then do some big time weeding this year....get something for your effort, plow it all under and cover it up for next year's garden - by which time you could also have some serious compost going? One year in Florida I wanted a garden badly, did that (roto-tilled), found a grungy old rug *cotton, not nylon!* at the dump, cut holes in it, planted in that and voila...almost weedless garden!

Thanks! I had read that but also read this: http://www.fl.rodngun.com/articles/article...iew&StoryID=560 and liked it because he says what to watch out for and also what is true..well...I think so;)

Being a confirmed tuna sashimi lover (enjoy lots of others but tuna is my fave), a friend of mine who knows that took me out for some escolar sashimi while I was in Pompano Beach Fla. (Take Sushi). I have to say, it was the best sashimi I've ever had, firm but somehow and this sounds gross but it wasn't *creamy* just an awesome flavor...the chef told us it was often called White Tuna but isn't really tuna at all, but of the mackerel (SABA!!) family. I looked it up on the web and saw some called it the Ex-lax fish...but even the critics agreed it was incredible. Does anyone else like escolar?

I was just in one of our little bodegas today and they had the cutest Nutella snack thing I'd never seen...plastic shaped like a jar, tiny little spoon to go with it - but I knew I'd need about six of them before it was all over...

The reason I liked them is because what I usually do is cut out the bottom of a pot/bucket and fill it 3/4 with dirt...over and above ground level, to keep in any extra moisture. Otherwise, two thiings happen...chickens and iguanas think I have a new menu item for them (yes, eventually high chicken wire, but this is a low budget operation here), and...the ground goes to baked status between 7 and noon. The water walls also just look really cool too!

These sound good as well, and I'll look them up. I bet they have to be used as intended as well. Gardening therapy. Any way to save water here is seriously worth a try - we usually get cut off mid-July for days at a time. Thanks!

Thanks for the advice. Using something as it's intended! This could be life changing, I'm going to try it.

Those are brilliant! I've never seen them before. Is the plastic strong enough to take a few beak peckings from wild (translate: can't get rid of them) chickens? I don't have the frost problem but I think they'd work well half filled with dirt to retain moisture.

Maybe they are worried you are from the Board of Health? Or their licenses aren't squeaky clean?? That's often the case around here and I'd sure miss my $1.75 conch pastillas if they got shut down...

I love this gardening thread here. I'm wondering if anyone else here lives in a tropical zone (I'm in 11, I think..). Things that should be full sun go in semi-shade, planting times are different; it's a learning curve for me, even though I grew up in Florida. Anyone else in this climate with more experience than me - I'd love to learn from! Right now I have a lot of basil, oregano, hot peppers, chives, scallions and the last tomatoes going (the others weren't really *done* but the heat ate them up), and a few other herbs started in different little areas around my yard, a lot under scraggly trees for the shade. Regardless, it's still great to read about what other people are doing in the garden! Will be reading to see how they grow.

After raising goats in the Midwest US and now living in the Caribbean where stewed goat and *goat water* (re the reference to goat soup?) are common...and not knowing shite about buying goat in markets...I would add this. Goat meat, as opposed to -farm raised-lamb, haven't the fat content (the milk is way different too, hence awesome cheese and incredible ice cream!) and how you cook the meat reflects that. Wild goat versus farm raised will be very different indeed, to me more like venison as to prep. The marinades work; I've used oj and cheap red wine and the usual garlic etc but the described yogurt etc sounds wonderful!...slow cooking, as to the lower fat content to keep it tender. All I know for sure is it is some of the best meat to be had, but ours were spoiled rotten and ate better than we did. But we returned the favor. Re: "size of a large cat" - the local spanish neighbors were constantly wanting to steal our babies for bbq...tender is the night. Here in the Caribbean, where goat and sheep look alike the rule is...tail down, sheep, tail up, goat. The rules are different here....and so is the taste.

Food glorious food....when so young friends would come over to eat sushi, artichokes, spaghetti and clam sauce, rare beef, oysters, etc....and I'd go to their houses to eat chips and candies. I have no idea how my father knew this stuff...we could have one sweet...fudge that he'd make and I'd be *cook's helper* meaning I'd get to eat the ball tossed in the cold water to see if it was done yet. Cook's helper turned out to be a very cool position with four kids in the house and I made it my own. Kid story. Daughter 3, driving by a slaughter house, her seeing the cows looking miserable, me explaining. "I don't want to eat cows again then, Mama" Me - ok...but no more liver pate, bacon, steak (mother earth days, raised 'em, killed 'em, cooked 'em) etc." She looked at me, looked at the cows..looked back at me and said..."Kill them" Today, 24 years later, she's been a vegetarian about 10 years....and I still don't eat snack food. Forbidden indeed.

Egg salad with eggs from my neighbor, basil, cilantro and spring onion tops from my garden, and vodka with oj...typical caribbean dinner (hint - there is no typical caribbean dinner)