Susiebella

I have a bird dog named Brece. She's a french brittany. Before we go out into the forest I rub her down with cedar chips and she had never had a flea or a tick in her life. We have our dogs' yard surrounded in cedar logs and their dog house has cedar chips inside. Always when we take the dogs out to the woods we have chips on hand to renew from time to time. Hope it helps. We have three dogs so I understand the cost of all that flea & tick stuff that never works. So home remedy is for me!

I'm drying rose hips from my wild rugosa to make rose hip tea for winter. Rose hips are higher in vitamiin C than an orange. When they're dried completely I put them in my cuisinart and chop them but not too finely, then sieve them because the inside of the hip has little hairs (very unpalatable). The remaining is the stuff you make tea from in the usual way you do with loose tea leaves. I like to dry lemon balm to mix with it. If the bush produces enough by the time it's all said and done I'll make some rose hip jelly. Anything to help ward off colds. I have an American cranberry bush as high as the house so after the first cold snap in October I'll be dehydrating some of them and making jelly. The ones way up high I'll leave for my feathered friends.

My nephew, Jordan, in Afghanistan now. As well lets not forget those who gave the ultimate sacrifice so that we may remain a free nation under GOD.

Here we can plant cold crops like cabbage and broccholi in the spring and harvest the broccholi by mid summer, then replant broccholi for a fall crop. Chard and spinach for a fall crop as well and we can usually get away with with harvesting into November unless the fickle finger of fate (snow) happens earlier than expected. I usually provide some protection for my greens but right now we are having a bumper crop yield of tomatoes, beans, summer squash and cukes. Keeps me busy and you what waht they saw about idle hands!