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What are these weeds?
My garden has been taken over by 2 types of weeds. One is a short clumpy g rass that has a brown top on it. The other ones look like oak seed pods onl y green with a redish stem. I do have photos if...
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Volunteers
If the number of bean plants that keep sprouting (apparently some pods got tilled under ...) are any indication I'm going to have a great germination rate for the ones I saved . These are Kentucky...
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Peppers Pickled
Put in the jar on the 12th , and I just couldn't wait any longer . They're very tasty , not as hot as I'd feared . As I recall , it was about 40 peppers , 2/3C each white vineger and distilled water...
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Kitten eating fungi
With all the rain we've been having, some meaty looking fungi came up under some trees. We usually only have toad stools. A kitten was licking and chewing on some with gusto. When I knocked it away...
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Now what ?
Well , the spinach and lettuce has come up , the bok choy is there from seed that fell before I harvested the pods . And today I tilled the straw from around the potatoes (what a disappointment ...)...
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Brussel Sprouts
My luck with Brussel Sprouts have seem to run out these last few years. The first few times I planted them they were wonderful - very tall stalks with lots of sprouts. The last few years have seen...
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giant red peppers
12cm across at least. a bit longer than that. not quite done yet, but the one we picked and ate last week was very tasty. wish my camera weren't bork. songbird
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more experimenting with beans
this year instead of planting single variety rows/plots i decided to just decide what i wanted to put in an area, mix the seeds all together and then plant whatever came to hand while going along the...
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apple tree seedlings
last fall i planted some apple seeds to see what would happen. the method was simple. scratch a line in the dirt, scatter seeds along the line. cover with dirt. ignore for the rest of the...
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Fall salad greens
Wish me luck , this year for the first time I've planted fall crops of lettuce , bok choy , and spinach and we have great germination ... all from seeds I saved this summer . I just sprinkled a few...
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Aquaponics & Geocentric domes for greenhouses
Is this the right group to discuss Aquaponics and Geocentric domes for greenhouses? Or is a better group? thanks.
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Physalis, Cape Gooseberry, Tomatillo, Ground Cherry, Golden Berry
Hi all, Can anyone help with this Physalis plant. It has recently gone from a lush bright green colour to having many mottled purple/brown leaves and purple stems. I have re-potted it today in a pot...
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the glyphosate is safe enough to drink myth
can you read this boots on the ground report from someone who does actual research and keeps records and tell me you really want to drink that stuff? if you still answer "Yes." ... well... oy!...
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acceptance
frost warning for tonight. not much left in the gardens that will be hurt by frost so that is ok. yet, i'm struggling with acceptance that the gardening season is almost over when it comes to what we...
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Feelin' Screwed ...
Turns out that NONE of the tomato seeds I bought at Walmart that were supposed to be beefsteak actually are ... We got cherry tomatoes , and we like them , but that's not what I wanted to plant . The...
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