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Post by SteveB on May 4, 2017 7:02:22 GMT -5
Ah the Gypsy moth. Such fond memories. I remember planes flying overhead and fine mist coming down on us as we were outside.....
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Post by SteveB on May 3, 2017 14:16:58 GMT -5
I've took a short jump to the outer edges of town. I would have went further, but I have my youngest still in school and wife didn't want to move him from his friends.. I have a five year plan. I'll dump it all and live in a tent if I have to, but until the trees are my neighbors, I'll never be home... I don't need much, I just need the rain and the vegetation around me. I grew up spending my time in the trees, I'll die in that same fashion.
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Post by SteveB on May 3, 2017 13:09:15 GMT -5
If one lowers expectations in a homestead. Homesteads become more reality than fantasy. Life cann be bliss if you focus on the needs vs the learned "needs".
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Post by SteveB on May 2, 2017 20:45:21 GMT -5
I'm curious as to how others plant/space muskmelons. I have grown them in hills. And even trellised them. I like to plant them in rows though and I usually space them very close together. I'd love to hear the kind of spacing others use in row plantings.
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Post by SteveB on Apr 28, 2017 15:50:31 GMT -5
Interesting. I was just enjoying the berries as I always do with the blackberries and raspberries. Never saw it before. I'll keep it in mind. It's on my neighbors land so not a lot for me to do with it.
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Post by SteveB on Apr 28, 2017 11:06:23 GMT -5
Well Blue, I applaud how you seemed to nail that quick. I thank you for you accurate identification even with my babbling description. It certainly appears to be on spot. Thanks again.
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Post by SteveB on Apr 28, 2017 9:13:59 GMT -5
I'm looking for someone with a cranial database of brambles particularly in the northeast of the US. I stumbled upon a few canes of a highly thorney cane that has a berry similar to the common black raspberries only red when ripe different leaf. I will post pics if I can figure it out. But so far I was unable to identify it. They were delicious last summer tho.....
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Post by SteveB on Apr 27, 2017 15:46:23 GMT -5
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Post by SteveB on Apr 25, 2017 9:55:56 GMT -5
Wish you luck! Hoping for a sweet harvest...
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Post by SteveB on Apr 25, 2017 9:12:51 GMT -5
I had a few stubborn tubers this year. I almost gave up on them but then moved them into the greenhouse. I have them in cups buried in moist soil about a quarter of the way. After a week out there they are going nuts. I may have overdid it..
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Post by SteveB on Apr 23, 2017 15:28:38 GMT -5
Wow thanks for the info. I hope to stumble upon a yellow some day! Thanks again, Steve
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Post by SteveB on Apr 23, 2017 10:52:53 GMT -5
I actually found a few by the river at the edge of my property. I'd assume it's not an anomaly.
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Post by SteveB on Apr 23, 2017 10:49:01 GMT -5
Stumbled upon a pure white violet today. All the others are a standard purple/ blue. Is this common?
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Post by SteveB on Apr 22, 2017 22:20:00 GMT -5
I debate as to what to do with the abundance of older seed I have. Some are most likely too far gone to germinate, others are just an over abundance or of lines I have lost interest in. I'm thinking about creating a bed specifically to toss them all into "jungle". And looking in the fall for any remarkable survivors. Maybe I'll find something worthy of collecting seed from with renewed interest.
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Post by SteveB on Apr 22, 2017 14:24:16 GMT -5
The matter is mind and mind over matter, but att he end does it matter? Or do we just mind?
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