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tadpoles and organic lettuce part 2
Well, turns out that I was not boiling the lettuce enough. What is lightly boiling anyway? (I took one quarter of home ec then our school burned down...) I boiled the lettuce until it was translucent and the tadpoles are chowing down! DH thinks full strength herbicide/pesticide lettuce would be fine but I told him we are talking to people who feed their fish shrimp and sliced oranges! They will understand organic lettuce. Going to the duck pond today to feed the fuzzy baby geese. k30a |
tadpoles and organic lettuce part 2
I threw out a handfull of cheerios into the wading pool and man, the
tads love them. I will be boiling some lettuce or something i guess (probably not organic tho) since there isnt enough algea in the kiddie pool yet to feed them. The ones in the pond are cleaning the sides well for me. The snails keep my pots clean....good system:) On 10 May 2003 16:48:03 GMT, ESPMER (K30a) wrote: Well, turns out that I was not boiling the lettuce enough. What is lightly boiling anyway? (I took one quarter of home ec then our school burned down...) I boiled the lettuce until it was translucent and the tadpoles are chowing down! DH thinks full strength herbicide/pesticide lettuce would be fine but I told him we are talking to people who feed their fish shrimp and sliced oranges! They will understand organic lettuce. Going to the duck pond today to feed the fuzzy baby geese. k30a |
tadpoles and organic lettuce part 2
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tadpoles and organic lettuce part 2
Duck pond report ~~~ well, we wanted to feed the baby Canada geese but their parents had moved them to the river's edge instead of the duck pond. We think we discovered why. We got out, two teenage girls and moi and were mobbed by very aggressive farm geese who also live at the duck pond. They actually chased the girls' back into the van. They had this unbalanced look in their beady eyes and they were organized... k30a |
tadpoles and organic lettuce part 2
K30a wrote:
Well, turns out that I was not boiling the lettuce enough. What is lightly boiling anyway? (I took one quarter of home ec then our school burned down...) I boiled the lettuce until it was translucent and the tadpoles are chowing down! DH thinks full strength herbicide/pesticide lettuce would be fine but I told him we are talking to people who feed their fish shrimp and sliced oranges! They will understand organic lettuce. Going to the duck pond today to feed the fuzzy baby geese. k30a Kathy, I don't think any home ec class would prepare you to boil lettuce. The home ec teachers I had always said it was to be served crisp ;-) -- Bonnie NJ http://home.earthlink.net/~maebe43/ |
tadpoles and organic lettuce part 2
Bonnie wrote I don't think any home ec class would prepare you to boil lettuce. The home ec teachers I had always said it was to be served crisp ;-) Oh, yeah! ;-) Poor Mrs. Brown, after our school burned down we were moved to a single men's quarters (this was a company town) and the girls of less than stellar study skills could be found down in the pool hall. I, alas, stayed in the classroom learning to sew. k30a |
tadpoles and organic lettuce part 2
"K30a" wrote in message ... They had this unbalanced look in their beady eyes and they were organized... k30a LOL -Cathy |
tadpoles and organic lettuce part 2
"They had this unbalanced look in their beady eyes and they were
organized..." Growing up, we had a family friend with a farm that us City Kids used to get sent to for a few weeks in the summer to give our folks a break. I can remember trying to sneak in late one night, and the darn Sentry Geese actually tree'd me! I was hanging off a lower limb of an oak tree like a sloth, with those darn geese jumping up and nippin' at me when the porch lights came on! BUSTED! Lee "K30a" wrote in message ... Duck pond report ~~~ well, we wanted to feed the baby Canada geese but their parents had moved them to the river's edge instead of the duck pond. We think we discovered why. We got out, two teenage girls and moi and were mobbed by very aggressive farm geese who also live at the duck pond. They actually chased the girls' back into the van. They had this unbalanced look in their beady eyes and they were organized... k30a |
tadpoles and organic lettuce part 2
On 12 May 2003 10:45:29 -0500, "Lee Brouillet"
wrote: Growing up, we had a family friend with a farm that us City Kids used to get sent to for a few weeks in the summer to give our folks a break. I can remember trying to sneak in late one night, and the darn Sentry Geese actually tree'd me! I was hanging off a lower limb of an oak tree like a sloth, with those darn geese jumping up and nippin' at me when the porch lights came on! BUSTED! I was born a city dweller. I was relocated to the country in Oklahoma. I was strolling down this marvelous road with a tree arbor above. The breeze was blowing and all was right with the world. Then out of no where these huge birds were chasing me on foot! I noticed they were geese and we had geese in California, so i stopped. They didn't, I ran like heck most of the way home. They weren't too friendly. |
tadpoles and organic lettuce part 2
DH thinks full strength herbicide/pesticide lettuce
would be fine but I told him we are talking to people who feed their fish shrimp and sliced oranges! They will understand organic lettuce. Phuee, as Olive Oil was known to say, not sure how it's suppose to be spelled, but phooee on organic, I agree with DH, organic is just a bunch of hype, in my Master Gardener opinion. It's all chemicals and in actuality some organic farmers use more organic chems to get the same affect as man-made chems. If one really wants pesticide free one has to grow their own. ~ jan See my ponds and filter design: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website |
tadpoles and organic lettuce part 2
another update: I decided to freeze the lettuce. I pull off a leaf, put it in one of the many pondlets I've got the tadpoles in and they chow down. Also keeps the fridge from smelling like the dead lagoon. k30a |
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