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Jan 2, 2012 10:32 AM CST
Name: Sheila F
Fort Worth TX (Zone 8a)
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Tip Photographer Region: Texas Butterflies Garden Art
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That that I showed in the pictures was some I homemade, but I buy the square "all season" to keep outside here in the summer. Most other types will melt....then the dogs eat it!! However....just saw this recipe I had saved from somewhere. I think I will try it this summer and test it out.

NO Melt Suet

A recipe I use in the summer does not melt, and the birds seem to love it;
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup suet or lard
2 cups "quick cook" oats, (I'm sure any will do)
2 cups cornmeal
1 cup white flour
1. Melt lard & peanut butter.
2. Stir in other ingredients. If it seems runny, add more flour.
3. Fill small plastic margarine containers about 1/2 full, then freeze.
4. Remove from container; wrap, keep in freezer.
This suet is nice when weather is warmer.
Contributed by Carl Cole

My ingredients were a lot less....but won't hold up in the heat.

2 C solid shortening
1 C creamy peanut butter
2 1/2 C cornmeal
3/4 C seeds (optional)
I heated shortening and PB until melted stirred in cornmeal, removed from stove & let cool some. Then added the seeds and stirred again and poured into paper muffin tin cups. Makes around 24
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Jan 2, 2012 6:48 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Sheryl
Hot, hot, hot, Feenix, AZ (Zone 9b)
Region: Southwest Gardening Charter ATP Member Keeps Horses Dog Lover Cat Lover Permaculture
Butterflies Birds Cottage Gardener Herbs I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Irises
Oh goody, something else to try!!! Hilarious! Thanks, Shelia!
In the end, only kindness matters.

Science is not the answer, it is the question.


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Jan 3, 2012 4:15 AM CST
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
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I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
Speaking of suet, the missing suet feeder reappeared. It fell out of the big spruce tree. I suppose the raccoon climbed up there, pulled it up and dined on the suet. Must've been mad when s/he went back up there and didn't find it refilled. Imagine that. S/he had removed the "door" side of the feeder but was nice enough to toss both parts down so I could reassemble it. Go buy a replacement ... that's when the lost one reappears. Murphy's Law ... works almost every time.

Then I found a couple other presents one of the cats brought up to the garage ... a dead shrew and a dead snake. Shrug!
I garden for the pollinators.
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Jan 3, 2012 9:08 AM CST
Name: Sheila F
Fort Worth TX (Zone 8a)
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Tip Photographer Region: Texas Butterflies Garden Art
Ponds Dog Lover Hummingbirder Birds The WITWIT Badge Region: United States of America
Funny about the returned feeder....murphy's law is right!
Good cats! Must admit I had to look up shrew....hadn't heard that term before.
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Jan 3, 2012 5:51 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Sheryl
Hot, hot, hot, Feenix, AZ (Zone 9b)
Region: Southwest Gardening Charter ATP Member Keeps Horses Dog Lover Cat Lover Permaculture
Butterflies Birds Cottage Gardener Herbs I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Irises
Up in a tree, that's funny. That's a pretty strong raccoon, dexterous, too.
In the end, only kindness matters.

Science is not the answer, it is the question.


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Jan 4, 2012 6:27 AM CST
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
For sure ... and I know s/he's out there laughing at me right now. Who knows what dawn will bring??? Glare
I garden for the pollinators.
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Jan 4, 2012 5:49 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Sheryl
Hot, hot, hot, Feenix, AZ (Zone 9b)
Region: Southwest Gardening Charter ATP Member Keeps Horses Dog Lover Cat Lover Permaculture
Butterflies Birds Cottage Gardener Herbs I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Irises
Well, you gotta love it if it has a sense of humor... Green Grin! Big Grin Green Grin!
In the end, only kindness matters.

Science is not the answer, it is the question.


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Jan 5, 2012 5:14 AM CST
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
Matching wits with a raccoon ... Shrug! Rolling on the floor laughing
I garden for the pollinators.
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Jan 5, 2012 8:21 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Sheryl
Hot, hot, hot, Feenix, AZ (Zone 9b)
Region: Southwest Gardening Charter ATP Member Keeps Horses Dog Lover Cat Lover Permaculture
Butterflies Birds Cottage Gardener Herbs I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Irises
Oh dear. Would hate to come out on the losing end of that one!!! Blinking
In the end, only kindness matters.

Science is not the answer, it is the question.


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