Garden Harvest 10/29/16

10/29/16 - Today's Harvest - Curled Scotch kale, Dino kale and Swiss Chard

Garden Update & Harvest 10/23/16

 10/23/16 - Before tomato and dead leaves clean up

 10/23/16 - After tomato and dead leaves clean up

 10/23/16 - After tomato and dead leaves clean up

 10/23/16 - After tomato and dead leaves clean up

 10/23/16 - After tomato and dead leaves clean up

 10/23/16 - After tomato and dead leaves clean up

10/23/16 - Today's Harvest - cherry tomato, Curled Scotch kale, Dino kale and Swiss Chard

Garden Harvest 10/19/16

10/18/16 - Today's harvest - Swiss Chard, Red Russian kale, Dino kale and Curled Scotch kale

Garden Update & Harvest 10/2/16

 10/2/16 - Ground Cherry tomatoes popped up from leftover seeds from last season's garden!

  10/2/16 - Dino kale

  10/2/16 - 1 of 2 Ground Cherry tomato plants popped up from leftover seeds from last season's garden!

  10/2/16 - Curled Scotch kale

  10/2/16 - Strawberry patch

 10/2/16 - Swiss Chard

 10/2/16 - Giant Green Onion

 10/2/16 - Swiss Chard

 10/2/16 - Dino Kale (after clean up)

 10/2/16 - Today's Harvest - Swiss Chard, Red Russian kale, Curled Scotch kale, Dino kale and Basil.

 10/2/16 - Today's Harvest - Basil.

Binky's food update 2 - What I feed my puppy

Her schedule now goes something like this:

6:30am - 1/2 wafer vitamin (NuVet Plus K-9 Wafers)

7:00am-8:00am - Breakfast - Usually cooked chicken, cooked turkey, or cooked salmon with  (Complete Probiotics for Pets), Krill Oil Liquid Pump for Pets, Astaxanthin, and Digestive Enzymes.

As mentioned in my Supplement blog, I also include Curcumin for Pets and Organic Mushroom Complex for Pets occasionally, especially if her immune system needs a boost. She eats both just fine in a small amount of the meat of choice.

I also try to feed her up to 1/2 teaspoon of coconut oil, but sometimes she won't touch it, while other times she'll gladly lick it all up. So this isn't daily.

12:00pm-1:00pm - Afternoon Snacks - My vet told me that at her age she's ok with just two meals. So instead of a new meal at lunch, I usually giver her the food she didn't eat at breakfast. She rarely eats up all her breakfast, so finishing it up at lunch makes sure she gets all her supplements without giving her extra foods.

I give her this once a week for a general detox, or more often depending on what she's going through health-wise - Liver and Kidney Support for Pets

This is also the time we do training so I use Liver and Berry Bites, dehydrated sweet potato bits, or peanuts, or other treats received from her Bark Box, as an extra treat.

Through the day she also snacks on low caloric veggies, such as carrots, cucumber, zucchini and peas while I'm eating my meals. At breakfast, if I have some banana in my cereal she excitedly hops on the couch as she patiently sits and stares at me until I share some. It's quite adorable, she doesn't usually like to eat banana, if I randomly offer it to her, but if I'm eating it at breakfast she gets super excited about eating it with me, plucked out of my almond milk cereal. 

5:00pm-6:00pm - Dinner - I try to encourage her to eat her NutriSource puppy kibble, by the suggestion of her vet, but am not opposed to giving her some freshly cooked meat like chicken, turkey, salmon or beef if there is some available, and I can use it to train her. Since she sits down for her morning meal, I like to have her dinner meal to train her with, as this is the time for her Basic training class on Wednesdays too. 

Snacks - She gets plenty of veggie bits while I'm cooking my dinner, so I don't have to serve that to her in her dog bowl. This helps keep her happy and occupied while I cook. Same thing with fruit, if I'm eating a fruit she will eat I will always offer some to her (apart from grapes and others not recommended for dogs). Another treat I give her almost daily, especially after running around outside, is a kefir/fruit frozen treat that I make for her. In silicone molds, I mix kefir (for her to get some probiotics from) with either blueberries, banana, papaya, pineapple or peanut butter as an extra special treat. She absolutely loves her frozen treats, and sometimes settles for plain old ice! Another hydrating loved treat.

I still do leave some kibble out for free feeding, but now I'm more conscious of how much, since she's past the stage of being at high risk for a blood sugar drop, because of her little size, she eats plenty so I only put a very small portion for her to snack on freely.  $47.99 NutriSource Small & Medium Breed Puppy Chicken & Rice Formula Dry Dog Food, 35-lb bag

Used for training and a healthy treat between meals. $18.97 Liver and Berry Bites: 1 box

*All the meats I feed her (chicken, turkey, beef, deer and salmon) area always organic and free of antibiotics.

Garden Update & Harvest 9/7/16

 9/7/16 - Garden update - So much rain! No time to come clean up. Just quick harvests. Mosquitoes were so bad that I wished I had a bee suit on!

 9/7/16 - Basil blows me away every time. I harvest as much as I can, and when I return there's twice as much, and the leaves are twice as big. Love it ^_^

 9/7/16 - Plenty of basil! Tomatoes are mostly cracked from the abundance of rain, but there are a few salvageable ones yet.

 9/7/16 - Lots of amazing Swiss Chard to pick...really need to do some clean up...but the bugs were just too bad to stay there a second longer past harvesting.

 9/7/16 - Today's harvest - overfloweing bowl of basil, 2 large tomatoes and cherry tomatoes

9/7/16 - Today's harvest - Swiss Chard, Curled Scotch kale and Red Russian kale

Binky's food update - What I feed my puppy

Her schedule now goes something like this:

6:30am - 1/2 wafer vitamin (NuVet Plus K-9 Wafers) 

7:00am-8:00am - Breakfast - Usually cooked chicken with either peas, zucchini and or carrots with (Complete Probiotics for Pets), Krill Oil Liquid Pump for Pets and Digestive Enzymes.
I also add 1/2 teaspoon of coconut oil to her toothbrush that she chews at grooming time. Occasionally some tiny bits of raw meats like organic steak, Deer or chicken, but she almost always prefers the cooked chicken. 

12:00pm-1:00pm - Lunch -  My initial plan was to feed Binky ZiwiPeak for lunch, but after the first can of 12, she completely turned her nose up to it, no matter what I add to it to make it more appealing.  I often give her bits of my food, since they usually include raw cucumber, lettuce, sweet potato and other foods that are very healthy for her, as I've always done, and she has come to look forward to. I try alter her lunch with different meats, usually chicken, because she always will eat it, but try to alternate it with steak and deer. I always make sure to add veggies, such as carrots, cucumber, zucchini and peas. She snacks on dehydrated sweet potatoes that I use for training. I also give her some Berry and Liver treats for training. She does absolutely love those two.

I give her this once a week for a general detox, or more often depending on what she's going through health-wise -  Liver and Kidney Support for Pets



5:00pm-6:00pm - Dinner - I usually feed her a meal similar to her lunch, or alternate a meat. If I have a new can of food opened I will try to give it to her, but it's usually a hit or miss with her, and I got back to her favorites like little pieces of frozen peas, zucchini, cooked carrots and chicken. To make sure she is digesting everything well I include enzymes in her dinner as well. I will also give her some of my dinner if it's natural and safe for her, such as cooked veggies or veggies from my salad. 
As mentioned in my Supplement blog, I also include Curcumin for Pets and Organic Mushroom Complex for Pets occasionally. She ate both just fine in a small amount of chicken.
 

Snacks - Unlike my first food blog on Binky, she no longer has to wait for me behind a gate while I cook. She now has access to the kitchen and just lays by my feet while I cook. She's a very clingy dog, and I love her to bits. While cooking I will give her tiny bits of what I'm cooking if she sits up and looks like she could use a treat and if they're veggies, and she will either eat them up or chew on them and leave them them laying on the floor somewhere. She's not a fast eater for even the tiniest pieces, so it keeps her occupied and happy while I'm busy cooking. I bought many different bags of treats for her, but at this time my favorite treats for her is one called Liver and Berry Bites. From the Mercola site. I truly trust their products because they focus on clean healthy and high quality products, always worth the high cost.


Liver and Berry Bites provide this vital, top-quality protein dogs require, along with beneficial antioxidants from organic berries.
Liver and Berry Bites are a stand-out treat because they:

• Contain 100% pure, free-range, grass-fed beef liver – what I consider the most premium meat available
• Include organic pomegranates, blueberries, and raspberries with high levels of antioxidants
• Are hand made in the United States (with all ingredients sourced in the US)
• Contain only high-quality USDA inspected meat
• Include NO rendered by-products or unidentified meats of any kind

She also still loves her dehydrated sweet potatoes, that I continue to use for training and small snacks through the day. She also snacks on her NutriSource kibble. 

Her kibble, that is left out for free feeding. She eats small amounts through the day. $47.99 NutriSource Small & Medium Breed Puppy Chicken & Rice Formula Dry Dog Food, 35-lb bag 


Used for training and a healthy treat between meals. $18.97  Liver and Berry Bites: 1 box

Wet food I have gotten for Binky. She usually likes it the first time I give it to her, but then after a few times completely rejects it over fresh food like cooked chicken, steak and veggies!
$51.88  ZiwiPeak Daily-Dog Beef Cuisine Canned Dog Food, 13-oz, case of 12 

$1.83 Health Extension LID Vegetarian Entrée Adult Wet Dog Food, 13.2 Oz

$1.83 Health Extension LID Duck Entrée Adult Wet Dog Food, 13.2 Oz

$1.83 Health Extension Turkey Entrée All Stages Wet Dog Food, 13 Oz

$1.83 Health Extension Salmon Adult Wet Dog Food, 13.2 Oz

$2.34 Evanger's Signature Series Turkey Stew Wet Dog Food, 12 Oz