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Post by kazedwards on Apr 4, 2019 23:43:34 GMT -5
Congrats Oldmobie!
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Post by kazedwards on Mar 26, 2019 9:51:45 GMT -5
Thats the normal time for peppers around here and I normally just start tomatoes at the same time. Our last frost is mid April with a late one sometimes early May. I typically have an issues with seed starting mix no matter the brand. Yesterday I was able to get some Fox farms potting soil. I have used them before and really like them but I have to go out of the way to get it. I will probably go head a repot them.
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Post by kazedwards on Mar 26, 2019 2:36:30 GMT -5
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Post by kazedwards on Jan 14, 2019 0:13:57 GMT -5
I hung my scapes upside down to dry in a paper bag as recommended by kazedwards . I opened it up today for processing and found seeds in the bottom! Threshing the flower heads yielded some more. Here's the whole group. Congrats Oldmobie!
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Post by kazedwards on Jan 13, 2018 0:55:21 GMT -5
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Post by kazedwards on Nov 18, 2017 0:56:37 GMT -5
Definitely trees soon. Fruit trees will be early spring due to me being indecisive about what varieties to get. The shade might happen sooner but I need to figure out where they are going first. I’m also needed to bring in some soil. My wife and I are planning on doing some landscapes mounds with more trees for privacy and a wind break.
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Post by kazedwards on Nov 15, 2017 2:58:40 GMT -5
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Post by kazedwards on Nov 6, 2017 23:04:02 GMT -5
Well we are all moved in. It’s been a little over a month now. We are loving it and so glad to be here and out of that apartment. For the most part we are unpacked and settled in but do have a little more. I’m very ready to start planting but that will wait until spring besides garlic. The only thing I have planted so far is a little sod for the dogs this winter. The grass seed is coming up a bit slower and sparse than I would like as well. So that will be waiting until this spring too.
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Post by kazedwards on Sept 15, 2017 1:18:30 GMT -5
Two weeks away. Today I bought a mower and also talked to a neighbor about brush hogging the tall areas. Only a few things left with the house. One more coat on the hardwood floors, a few things need to be painted and touched up and septic and plumber needs come back to test everything and back fill the septic a bit more due to settling. We are almost there!
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Post by kazedwards on Sept 15, 2017 0:52:26 GMT -5
Ive been planting out hardneck garlic in my orchard along with distributing hand fulls of bulbils by throwing far and wide. I'm not worried about bulb size reduction as its a experiment to see if the stress of competing with grasses can help with flower/seed set, also could there be any difference is rust attack compared to the garden garlic. Richard I have been reading the holistic orchard and just read about fungal diseases. I wonder if some of the preventative sprays would help with garlic rust. I know that they rust is different in fruit trees but some of the herbal sprays may have the same affect.
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Post by kazedwards on Sept 9, 2017 1:44:05 GMT -5
By the time I dug the chesnok red most of them had started growing again. That happened a few years ago too. This year it was from laziness but a few years ago I kept the scapes on there as long as possible. A bit too late obviously. Do now I plan on planting them back rather soon. If I wait until late fall early winter I think it will do more damage than just planting them now. I'm sure it won't hurt them to get some extra energy before winter either.
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Post by kazedwards on Sept 2, 2017 1:35:17 GMT -5
I got glasses in middle school. They said I needed them in those school eye test they do at a curtain age. So my mom took me to get them. I wore them 3 days and that's generous. Then stopped. A few years latter I ended up trying again with contacts. Thought it would be cool to change my eye color I think. That lasted like a piece of toilet paper. I just don't understand how someone could poke themselves in the eye every day voluntarily. Without them I never really had much trouble. Passed the eye test at the DMV and everything. I just kinda learned the read the shape of words rather than the letters in them. I worked for a while. Then 15ish years later I started to realize how bad my sight has gotten. Now I couldn't really read street signs and screens at work started getting hard to read as well. So last winter my wife bugged me enough to make me go to the the eye doctor. I hate going to the doctor too so it took some nagging. Only thing I hate more is the dentist. I can't stand the stupid puff of air either (they don't do that anymore btw) So I ended up going and getting glasses. The assistant laughed at me because I couldn't even read the big E on the chart. That's the letter at the very top by itself if you don't know. I ended up having to hold a chart myself rather than try to read the one on the wall. She also said that it would be a miracle if she could get me seeing straight. I'm glad I went. I can see now. I didn't realize how much detail I was missing all around me. I remember looking at some trees and seeing the individual branches and how intricate they are. It was really awesome see so much more.
As far as the dmv. It sucks. I just had to get my license renewed. Had to wait 2 hours. The part that really pisses me off about it is that around here they contract it out to an independent business. So when you renew your plates you pay for the license fee plus the plate if you get a new one. Then they charge $5 bc they are an independent business. What the hell! I'm required to do this. It's not like I can go the the court house and avoid the fee. It's crap. I know a guy at work that get all of the new crispy ones that he can. You know the ones straight of the press that are a pain to separate. That's what he pays his property tax with. I kinda feel sorry for the poor guy that has to count out a couple hundred of those. I might start doing that at the dmv though. Or maybe I should pay in pennies.
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Post by kazedwards on Aug 31, 2017 9:09:09 GMT -5
Thanks everyone. The velvetleaf is all ready pulled. Reminded me of a nightshade that grows here. It has only grown where the ground is disturbed. Seems that always a bad sign
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Post by kazedwards on Aug 31, 2017 0:18:01 GMT -5
Thought I would ask what a couple more plants are.
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Post by kazedwards on Aug 28, 2017 19:43:16 GMT -5
I just found 14 nice looking seeds on a dried up scape of Chesnock Red that I originally got from kazedwards. I didn't keep good enough track to know if it was one of three plants from his seeds last year or one of the others. If I did anything to encourage seed formation it would be neglect. Weed competition, no watering, no bulbil removal. That's great!
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