{"id":4867,"date":"2015-07-21T11:59:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T15:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T15:59:57","slug":"q-and-a-picking-green-beans-and-feeding-bad-food-to-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2015\/07\/21\/q-and-a-picking-green-beans-and-feeding-bad-food-to-chickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: picking green beans and feeding bad food to chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Picking green beans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>When picking beans, do you pick them with the stem attached or with the stem removed? I know when cleaning them I take them off. I just don&#8217;t want to hurt my plants.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Brandy Gunderson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hold my bean plants with one hand and pull the beans with the other. The stem usually breaks off, being attached to the bean. Then when I cut the beans, I trim off both the stem and blossom end for eating or canning. By holding the tender bean plants, you reduce the damage you&#8217;ll do to the plants otherwise. In this way you can harvest many times from those same plants. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feeding bad food to chickens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Recently I was given a box of dented cans. Some are quite good but some are bulged which I know are not good people food. But, is it safe to feed to the chickens?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gail Erman<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Palisade, Colorado<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If they are bulging that indicates spoilage. As you don&#8217;t know what bacteria are involved, I wouldn&#8217;t feed the contents to anything; bury it so nothing gets into it, just to be safe. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picking green beans When picking beans, do you pick them with the stem attached or with the stem removed? I know when cleaning them I take them off. I just don&#8217;t want to hurt my plants. Brandy Gunderson I hold my bean plants with one hand and pull the beans with the other. The stem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867"}],"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=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}