{"id":1438,"date":"2011-07-12T14:49:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T18:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2011-07-12T14:49:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T18:49:16","slug":"q-and-a-rabbit-droppings-for-fertilizer-and-monsanto-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/07\/12\/q-and-a-rabbit-droppings-for-fertilizer-and-monsanto-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Rabbit droppings for fertilizer and Monsanto seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rabbit droppings for fertilizer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>My hubby and I are truck drivers that hopefully will soon be off the road&#8230;I want chickens and possibly rabbits. Can rabbit droppings be used as fertilizer for a garden?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Judith Avery<\/em><br \/>\n<em>New Bern, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Definitely! Rabbit droppings are one of the best fertilizers. Chicken droppings aren\u2019t so bad, either. Best of luck with your homesteading! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsanto seeds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I have a question for you. All of those wonderful seeds from Monsanto, which I do hope that we don&#8217;t want, are they sterile? My husband and I were talking about genetics this evening and we were wondering about those GMO seeds. We don&#8217;t know enough about them to know, if they breed true to form or even if they breed at all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Debby<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Helena, Montana <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Monsanto&#8217;s garden seed line is not (yet!) GMO. There is a lot of confusion between the terms &#8220;hybrid&#8221; and &#8220;GMO.&#8221; Hybrids are crosses between two varieties in the same family. GMOs, on the other hand, have genes of differing species introduced. Hybrids will reproduce, contrary to common belief. However, the offspring of these seeds may or may not look and taste like the &#8220;mother&#8221; of the seeds you saved. Often the resultant plants will produce fine, however. Just not consistently perfect.<\/p>\n<p>We are planting nearly all open pollinated heritage varieties now, on our homestead, as we&#8217;re VERY upset over the trend toward only being able to buy a few select varieties produced by Monsanto, while dozens of excellent varieties are becoming extinct every single day. We like variety and hate depending on one or two companies to produce the seed (and thus, food) for us. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbit droppings for fertilizer My hubby and I are truck drivers that hopefully will soon be off the road&#8230;I want chickens and possibly rabbits. Can rabbit droppings be used as fertilizer for a garden? Judith Avery New Bern, North Carolina Definitely! Rabbit droppings are one of the best fertilizers. Chicken droppings aren\u2019t so bad, either. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438"}],"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=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}