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Post by winancy on Apr 8, 2007 18:55:55 GMT -5
Try to trade for seeds or seedlings. I just thew away over 100 tomatoe starts. I hated to do that but I start so many just to make sure I have enough for my garden. Ask everyone if they garden, make sure everyone you know knows you garden.
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Post by redbrick on Apr 8, 2007 19:32:02 GMT -5
I'm sorry to hear they had to go out like that! Personally, I take my extras to work and hand them out. 'Course, now I'm the "Wierd Tomato Guy"!
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Post by Alan on Apr 12, 2007 8:30:44 GMT -5
I pretty much trade for anything and everything here in our little town. I have even trade fishing worms and produce for gas at the local gas station. There is a great barter system here in rual communitites in southern indiana!
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Post by johno on Apr 12, 2007 22:08:08 GMT -5
Worms for gas?! All bow to the master!
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Post by Alan on Apr 12, 2007 22:44:49 GMT -5
yep, sometimes I feel like the man, you would be suprised things that I have traded for.
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Post by downinmyback on Apr 12, 2007 22:56:06 GMT -5
I traded a cooler full of Bream one day for a tank od gas and a couple of coke. We were returning home from a fishing trip with a cooler full of bream and dreading the job of cleaning them as i was woreout tired. We stop at a gas station and i started talking to the owner and he said he would like some fish someday i had extra. To make a long story short we drove off with a full tank of gas drinking a coke and he was a cooler of fish wealther lol.
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Post by joanofpa on Jun 27, 2007 11:24:58 GMT -5
I told a woman she could dig all the side of the road orange lilies she wanted ( I really needed to thin them out!) The next day she returned with 5 loaves of bread, a roll of green wire fencing, a lavendar bush and 3 yucca plants. Gosh, didn't know the lilies were worth that much!
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Post by flowerpower on Jun 28, 2007 6:50:36 GMT -5
Geez, I have to thin out the orange ones in at least 3 spots. I might have to compost most of them. I wonder if I can feed them to the goats? I'll have to check on that.
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Post by bcday on Jun 28, 2007 8:29:25 GMT -5
Geez, I have to thin out the orange ones in at least 3 spots. I might have to compost most of them. I wonder if I can feed them to the goats? I'll have to check on that. If the orange lilies are daylilies, those are edible, so you can eat them yourself if you want to. A Google search or a book about edible wild foods will give you some ideas on what parts of the plant to use and how to prepare them. Here's a link to one article: sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/09/HOG7UC42QO1.DTLIf they are some other kind of lily, research it carefully before you taste it. Correct identification of any wild food is the first important step in safe foraging. |
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Post by flowerpower on Jun 29, 2007 6:25:58 GMT -5
I was talking about daylily. I knew they were ok for humans. But ever since my pig got poisoned from eating a red geranium, I double check on those kinds of things.
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