Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[foreman Etexas]

I was feeding alfalfa over corn,the price was under corn at the time,60lbs bale and it was 20%protein. I just put the bale out and they would eat on it for awhile. Now I just let them fend for themself and put in a cple acre foodplot in the winter to bring them in.

 

[Western]

Looks like the price still stands! :thumbsup: Academy - Academy Sports + Outdoors Deer Corn

Thanks!! Next time I'm near one I will check it out, problem is right now, I would spend the difference in fuel just to go get it!

Looks like a good chance of rain for North Texas, now changed to 80% tonight...Hopefully I will miss the hail part, but I guess Jim cant have a "monopoly" for hail damage.:laughing:

 

[texasjohn]

Weather underground says 50% chance of rain, .3 in accumulation possible...to me that's a drought prediction:thumbdown:

 

[jinman]

Thanks!! Next time I'm near one I will check it out, problem is right now, I would spend the difference in fuel just to go get it!

Looks like a good chance of rain for North Texas, now changed to 80% tonight...Hopefully I will miss the hail part, but I guess Jim cant have a "monopoly" for hail damage.:laughing:

I'm not sure, but I'd bet the price at Academy is for 40 lb. That's their own brand of corn, so they are getting the best wholesale price. If the corn is 40 lb, that's 21.2 cents per lb. I bought triple cleaned corn today at my local feed store for $11.25 for a 50 lb bag. That's 22.5 cents per lb. I can't drive to the nearest Academy for that 1.3 cents per lb I'd save. Also, I noticed one bag at TSC this last year for $7.99. On closer inspection, it was only 36 lb. The only way to compare is to calculate the per-lb price.

. . . and Dennis, I've learned my lesson. I already have all my tomatoes, peppers, cantaloupes, cucumbers, and squash under pots and buckets. That means the hail will be somewhere else.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

After the storm stopped, the sun came out. Another storm went just north of us, but we got some of its hail. . . golf ball size. Luckily, it was very random and only a couple hundred stones fell in my complete yard. I'd guess 8 or 10 hit my roof, but my 26 ga metal roof just laughed it off. I'll have to check my car tomorrow. I heard several stones hit and my grandson screamed. He had gone outside to collect stones. What a dopey idea. I got so mad at him I was shaking. I almost hit him when his lame excuse was that he was under a tree. Kids just don't think of the danger. I told him to never go out in a thunderstorm of any kind again and that if he went out into hail again I would beat him within an inch of his life if the hail didn't get him. Kids just don't think anything will ever happen to them. I'm lucky not to be in the emergency room.

Be glad your grandson isn't in the emergency room (from lightning, hail, or paddling).

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Argh....just typed up a long post and it got lost by Microsoft. arrgh.

Anyway, was reading about compost and the A&M guy says not to use horse manure. Not sure why. Article did not explain.

Wonder what is in the Scotsmans compost?

 

[Western]

Kyle, I've always heard that the stomach in cows, will not destroy weed seed like the "stomachs" in cows.

Jim, If you hear a nice "rhythm section" tonight in your garden, you'll know the buckets are doing their job:laughing: I brought home steel 5 gallon paint buckets from work last night, so mine may have a soft cymbal's sound

 

[txdon]

Wonder what is in the Scotsmans compost?

Kyle I have 16 bags in the back and all it says is organic compost. It looks like all vegetation (leaves, bark, limbs) chipped small and aged for about 6 months. It's from Powderly TX. It looks like it is good as a top dressing but still would need a year before it would be completed compost. It does look easier that hay to apply and will do the job of retaining moister and preventing weeds.

Giddings and Bastrop are now sold out, you might want to check on-line to see who has it. The price down here is $3something a bag.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

TxDon, did you corner the local markets on Scotsman?

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Something to laugh about:

The 1st time I bought cow manure compost at Walmart in plastic bags and loaded about 4 bags in the back of my Suburban. I thought the bags would containg the smell....lemme tell ya the windows were ALL down for that trip home. Glad it was only about 4 miles. Next time, I'll get a can of that strawberry smelling stuff they use in porta potties. jk...I have a trailer, just didn't have it with me. Learned my lesson.

Something to whine about:

Since planting my garden, I've only received about 1.1" of rain over the last month or more. Waaaaa.