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Bolting
Perhaps you people can help. Last couple of years, I plant, say, a 6-pack of lettuce or chard, and they right away bolt to seed and don't produce much in the way of leaf. Is it heat/light, water, or...
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japanese beetles and wild grape vines
while out wandering the place the other day i noticed that the japanese beetles have absolutely shredded the wild grape vine leaves and are quite heavily infested in them, which is why i'll have to...
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Salsa recipes ?
The roma tomatoes are starting to come off , and one thing I've wanted to try is making salsa . I'd appreciate some basic tips - I know I'll need cilantro , onions , peppers of some type and of course...
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Pickles and such
Swore I wasn't going to make pickles this summer. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Made four quarts of quick sour pickles yesterday, straight from SETP. They're in the canning pantry now, waiting for the...
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Don't get much better ...
Tonight's dinner included home-grown tomatoes from the garden on our BLT's , grilled slices of straight neck squash with garlic oil salt and pepper , and right now I'm eating a slice of blackberry...
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Birds & Tomatoes
I put a bowl of water out there in the garden. Will that help?
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ajo rojo garlic
a softneck garlic, from a warmer climate, Derald had some extra and winged it to me to give it a try. put it in with the rest of the garlic so the conditions were the same as the regular hard necked...
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Drywall scraps
We're building a house , and I find myself with small pieces left over . Are these any good as a soil amendment ? Gypsum iis the main ingredient , and I don't know if it acidic or basic . I don't...
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Girdled tomato stems
Tomato stems girdled near the ground, perhaps 1" in extent. Plant wilts. Roma and Scotia both affected. No detectable efflorescence of fungus aound the damaged area, no visible tiny tooth marks....
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Silent Spring?
Without going out and actually counting them, we have roughly 50 fruit trees on our property. Mostly apples, some pears, a few peaches, a few sweet cherries, a couple of plum varieties and one apricot...
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Pomegranate trees
When we moved into our house in inland San Diego our pomegranate tree bore hundreds of pomegranates for us. Now it is fairly sparse. Do we need to prune regularly? How much water should we give it?...
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Another blackberry delight
The wife just made me a pie , used fresh berries , whipped topping , and cream cheese , I think . Pissed me off , she licked the mix bowl and barely left me a taste . Now I have to wait for the pie to...
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Harvesting Potatoes, Sweet and Regular
We grow some potatoes in the garden every year and every year I harvest the m the same way. I start at the edge of the bed and put the pitchfork down a bout 3-4 inches, then I flip up the dirt in...
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alternative methods
i enjoyed this update on Masanobu Fukuoka's methods: note that the Larry Korn who is replying in the comments was a frequent visitor to the farm and a translator of his books from Japanese... wish i...
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actual data from NOAA
since the topic came up i noticed this excellent article: please do not followup with more BS about what is going on, but if you have comments about the article and information and if it is useful to...
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