{"id":3167,"date":"2013-04-23T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2013-04-23T03:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T07:00:41","slug":"q-and-a-potting-soil-and-drying-up-a-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/04\/23\/q-and-a-potting-soil-and-drying-up-a-cow\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: potting soil and drying up a cow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Potting soil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I was wondering what type of potting soil that you used, and where do you get it. I just tried Home Depot for Pro-Mix and they do not carry it. Is that the kind that you use? And I was going to put my tomatoes into containers. What would I use for that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Debby<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Helena, Montana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Check a local greenhouse\/nursery for Pro-Mix. I used to get mine in Helena at the greenhouse out past the turn to the VA hospital (Ft. Harrison). Can&#8217;t remember the name; it&#8217;s on the right side; big place. I use it for transplanting seedlings, too. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drying up a cow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Our Jersey cow is pregnant and ready to calve the end of May. We have been trying to dry her up for a month and she just isn&#8217;t. Some days we are milking some of the milk out of her, like 2 qts a day just to relieve her some as she gets so full. Is there something I am missing on doing this? What else should I do? She normally gives us about 3 gallons a day, sometimes more but we thought we should dry her up so the baby could develop better since she is due fairly soon. This is only her second calf.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jackie S.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To dry a cow off, just stop milking her. It&#8217;s the back-pressure of the milk that causes her to stop producing it. If you keep milking her, even a little, she&#8217;ll keep producing. She needs a rest and time to produce colostrum for her next calf. She sounds like a nice cow! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potting soil I was wondering what type of potting soil that you used, and where do you get it. I just tried Home Depot for Pro-Mix and they do not carry it. Is that the kind that you use? And I was going to put my tomatoes into containers. What would I use for that? [&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\/3167"}],"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=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}