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Plants that reseed
In the zone 5 when a plant goes to seed in late summer or fall I need to kn ow how best to get more plants to germinate from the seed. Take coneflower for instance. I would think it's best to gather...
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Transplanting butterfly weed
Wife has been raising Monarch butterflies this summer. I stopped at a vacant lot on the way home from work Friday-a-week-ago to pick a couple of milkweeds to feed her caterpillars, and I noticed this...
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Planter design for shallow rooted plants
I'm considering making some "sculptural" planters out of hypertufa, Hypertufa is concrete mixed with sphagnum moss and either vermiculite or perlite. This makes a somewhat lightweight porous...
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Finally something good from a severe winter, maybe
For the second year, we're seeing practically no Japanese beetles. Two years ago, my wife and I could spend hours of quality time together, picking the beetles off our sand cherries, shrub roses and...
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Plant talk
Hi All, I watched a fascinating documentary called "What Plants Talk About" on Netflix/Roko. I do believe you can watch it on line at: Apparently, plants actually cooperate as well as complete with...
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Tiny "old" potatoes
I bought some of those delicious tiny potatoes. Put them in veg bin along w ith other potatoes -- small red. Went to nuke tinies today. SPROUTING! If they're babies, why are they prematurely...
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Lawn Aerator
Anybody know where to get an aerator that's basically a 20-gallon barrel with a row of aerator tubes fastened around each head? The one I'm looking for is pulled by hand. I have too much area to cover...
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[OT] water sites and permaculture
sometimes when i need more reading or inspiration... as the topic of water availability has often come up here i thought i would post these two links which i find very interesting about the water...
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Squash bugs
Hi All, Got my first squash bug sighting on one of my zukes today. A big sucker too. What is the best organic method of making them leave? I got Chrysanthemum spray, neam oil, hot sauce, soap, black...
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Tenacity for Nimblewill also kills crabgrass
For grins, I tried spraying the Tenacity I got to kill the Nimblewill in my lawn on some of the crabgrass in my lawn. It worked great. Now I have se veral more pale spots in my yard, but the Tenacity...
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USA politics and culture wars
Please let it go you two. You are just shouting past each other. It is of absolutely no interest and quite OT. D
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freebies
ah, we asked today if we could scavange bricks from the house that has just had two old fireplaces replaced after the tornado damaged them. a large roll on container is sitting there with piles in it....
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tomato plant yellow?
have 16 tomato plants. Lots of leaves on one of the roma tomato plants is turning yellow. I am fearing whatever is causing the problem will spread to the others. Should i pull the plant?
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Passion saga
Same passionfruit saga,the main vine bore fruit in dec January or so, the off shoots continued with the little yellow ones for a while, they have now stopped BUT the big ones have stayed the same...
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Rabbit!
Hi All, I went out in the dark with a flash light to water my garden. Found the cutest little wabbit (Elmer Fudd speak for "rabbit") about the size of a baseball taking a nap in my zukes. He got a...
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