{"id":3885,"date":"2014-03-28T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2014-03-28T03:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T07:00:36","slug":"q-and-a-ground-cherries-leaving-feed-out-for-chickens-and-saving-tomato-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/03\/28\/q-and-a-ground-cherries-leaving-feed-out-for-chickens-and-saving-tomato-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: ground cherries, leaving feed out for chickens, and saving tomato seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ground cherries<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since Spring does appear to be on the way (I am ignoring the snow and wind we got last night), I was wondering what summer might look like. I know your beavers inform you of the winter, just didn’t know if they chatted much about the upcoming summer. Rainy or dry? Also, do you have ground cherries? if so, what type and how are they for pies or jams?<\/em>
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\nLisa<\/em>
\nSaint Paul, Minnesota<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ll let you know once the beavers are out from under the ice. As the wolves started breeding, I’m kind of expecting an earlier spring but they’re not as dependable as the beavers!<\/p>\n

I do plant ground cherries. Aunt Mary’s or Pineapple are both good. They are great for pies and jams and are grown like tomatoes, starting them inside then transplanting out. — Jackie<\/p>\n

Leaving feed out for chickens<\/strong><\/p>\n

We just got our first chicks, mostly for laying hens but also 4 Cornish Rocks for butchering. I have been leaving the feed in the coop 24\/7, but was reading on one of your old posts not to for the Cornish Rocks. We are housing all the chicks together, will it hurt anything if I put the feed up at night for everyone or can I leave it out? We plan on butchering the 4 Cornish at about 6-7 weeks old, they are right at 2 weeks old now.<\/em>
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\nAnita Bathe<\/em>
\nWhitewater, Colorado<\/em><\/p>\n

I’d take the feed away at night. In nature, the mom hen sits on her babies all night and they do not eat. Just be sure that in the morning, they get their feed fairly early in the day so they don’t get overly hungry. — Jackie<\/p>\n

Saving tomato seeds<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you plant all those different heirloom tomato plants, how do you keep them from cross-pollinating? I thought the plants had to be planted quite a distance apart from each other.<\/em><\/p>\n

Alice Clapper<\/em>
\nNew Castle, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n

Luckily, tomatoes are pretty much self-pollinating and very rarely cross if they aren’t planted so close that the vines touch and intermingle. We plant our tomatoes that we are going to save seeds from several feet apart all ways. This works very well. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ground cherries Since Spring does appear to be on the way (I am ignoring the snow and wind we got last night), I was wondering what summer might look like. I know your beavers inform you of the winter, just didn’t know if they chatted much about the upcoming summer. Rainy or dry? Also, do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885"}],"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=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}