{"id":1364,"date":"2011-06-14T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2011-06-14T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T07:00:59","slug":"q-and-a-chicken-broth-and-potato-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/06\/14\/q-and-a-chicken-broth-and-potato-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Chicken broth and Potato bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chicken broth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Can I make broth out of Chicken Skins? I would skim the fat and can the rest. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Shirley Owens<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Milton, Florida<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, but it won&#8217;t have as much flavor as broth made from either chicken pieces, carcasses, or bones boiled down (with some meat on them). &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Potato bugs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We are trying our best to be organic gardeners but are loosing the battle with potato bugs! We have tried lime, seven dust and using a &#8220;beetle juice&#8221; mixture. However we can&#8217;t seem to beat them. I have resulted in hand picking the bugs, larva and eggs off the plants and have to do this everyday! Do you have any other suggestions for us?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Courtney Burgan<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Clear Spring, Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even when I use other methods, I do hand pick every day. It really stops the damage sooner. My best results have been with Rotenone powder used with a duster to get under the leaves and with Spinosad, which is a natural bacteria that is not harmful to you, pets, birds, or friendly insects. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicken broth Can I make broth out of Chicken Skins? I would skim the fat and can the rest. Shirley Owens Milton, Florida Yes, but it won&#8217;t have as much flavor as broth made from either chicken pieces, carcasses, or bones boiled down (with some meat on them). &#8212; Jackie Potato bugs We are trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}