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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 8, 2020 22:23:16 GMT -5
Well PG&E left us high and dry in Plumas County with no power.
Smoke is fearsome at my farm. They evacuated within a block of us. For a couple of nights it was so so scary. We were packed and ready to go. Then it was 104-111 for days. I had to water day and night.
Next the deer and wild pigs came down out of hills.
Salvaging tomatoes, basil, peppers. They got the watermelons and most of the grapes.
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Post by 12540dumont on May 18, 2020 12:29:51 GMT -5
I have had many seeds from Glenn and chickens too! Love his chickens. Bears will eat anything if hungry enough. (I'm from MN...where bears wake up hungry). What I will say about this type of sweet corn, if you are planting 75 seeds of this, it will all come ripe at the same time and doesn't hold long after picking. We had that same issue with Buhl.
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Post by 12540dumont on May 13, 2020 14:12:59 GMT -5
I have a jar of dried ground sweet corn. Does not make for good bread or polenta. What's it good for? It's too sweet for anything savory.
So really, listen to Dar. If you want to eat corn that's boiled (Polenta or Grits) Use Flint. If you want to bake, use a good flour corn.
That said if you only have room or climate for flint, soak the ground flint before baking with it.
I have found that for our personal use, sweet corn is not that useful. For the market, it's okay. Except for those people who insist on pulling the shucks down.
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Post by 12540dumont on May 4, 2020 17:46:20 GMT -5
If they girded the trunk all the way around it's hopeless. We make tree cages for our trees in Oregon. Here in California, we make reverse cages for gophers. Anything a gopher will eat, must be put in a basket. Things I have tried:
'65 ford, hose attached to the exhaust pipe. Carbon dioxide stuffed down the hole. (Okay killed a few of them). Smoke Bombs...stuff them down a hole, cover the hole. Watch where the smoke comes out, stuff another smoke bomb there, cover hole. (Okay, killed a few of them). Traps....nah, never got one.
The cat flung one out of a hole and I stomped it. Cat is pissed at me, gopher is dead, husband looks at me funny.
The problem is that each gopher makes 4 gophers, and their runs can be up to 2000'.
I stand here watching them take out a row of garlic.
Peppers in the holes...works for awhile.
My son made me a frog gigging fork and I tried to stab one, but I got the irrigation instead. Husband now looking at me cross eyed.
Holly 5 Gophers 47 garlics, 30 tomatoes, 24 peppers, 9 eggplant, 2 rows of carrots, 7 rose bushes, 2 citrus, 3 lilacs, all the cabbage.
Hence the baskets. So far only one watermelon was eaten by gopher above ground. Cat got that gopher....
2 years ago we me an above ground strawberry bed. Wired the whole darn thing with rabbit wire! 25' long, what a pain to fill and build. 6 months later, the gopher climbed up the side, moved into the berry bed and lived there till every darn berry was gone. Truly, they are insufferable, much like deer which are just gophers on 4 legs. The gophers ate the agapanthus below ground, and the dear ate it from above. A pox on varmints.
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Post by 12540dumont on May 4, 2020 17:29:35 GMT -5
Hiya Synergy, we couldn't find anyone to haul them. Leo said you need a car trailer. So, with our small garden trailer, we bent them almost like arches to get them in the trailer. You need to help. One to hold onto the bend, and one to tie the rope. For safety, everyone stand on the open side. Just in case it gets away from you, These will smack you silly. Once you get them home, be careful untying that rope! I attached them to the ground with hairpin rebar.
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 20, 2020 12:44:36 GMT -5
I love hog and cattle panels. The make awesome squash, and bean arbors as well.
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 14, 2020 15:55:12 GMT -5
Well, the folks in Peru use the corn. Simmered for a long time. Mordant your fabric if you want it to stay dyed and light fast. Aluminum Acetate for bast, Alum for protein. I haven't dyed with corn. I guess I would start with 50% WOF for the corn. Scour your fabric (orvus for protein, Syntrapol & soda ash for bast fiber.) I would probably Tannin next if I was using a bast fiber. 24 hour soak Then mordant. Rinse. Then dye. Don't be afraid to let your item sit in the dye bath overnight. Then dry. Then rinse. Don't WASH for a couple of weeks. Then show pictures. I usually dye with madder/woad/indigo type plants....because I can't eat them. Of course, every time I'm soaking a batch of black beans, I get the itch to try dyeing with the. But then I eat them.
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 12, 2020 16:21:43 GMT -5
Why select for purple: The purple corn makes a good dye. A common use of corn for dyeing by the native Americans.
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 12, 2020 16:16:44 GMT -5
Okay, my aunt says that anyone in Minnesota can get tested. Here Kaiser says you have to be over 65.
If we can't test everyone, how do we know how many are sick? We don't.
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 9, 2020 15:40:33 GMT -5
My mortgage company sent me an email to say "We are here for you."
Yeah, I bet. More like we are here to make sure you pay.
I forgot to pay my son's water bill, and they called to say they were shutting off the water. And then, they figured out I HAD paid the damn bill.
Son, lives in my cabin. He's been laid off. So, good thing he has a mommy who loves him and will keep the lights on.
And if you are trying to live on unemployment, I hear your pain. Not enough to keep the lights and water on and eat.
I don't think that there will ever be a normal again. And I'm an optimist. (To me the 60's were normal, life was good, we were on the gold standard, we had a YOUNG president, there were lots of jobs, Nixon - another republican had not opened China, so as a country we were pretty self-reliant).
Right after this, they'll bring out AI, since they never get sick...
You all take care.
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 27, 2020 13:15:39 GMT -5
Actually, I got an 80% germ out of the stuff in the freezer from 2011. But I was just pulling your tomato Dar.
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 27, 2020 13:13:40 GMT -5
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20030502v1So, now it looks like a cold. Not fake news but from work funded by Germany... With so many heads of state sick, and isolating, how come our fearless leader is immune? And so is Boris Badenov and Natasha. Those Russians have amazing immunity. Just ask my cat, Katia Kalashnikov...she's immune to anything except the supper bell ringing late. She's a Russian Blue. So, any of you notice all the expensive store putting up plywood to prevent looting. So, lockdown, followed by martial law. I'm seeing a pattern here that I do not like.
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 24, 2020 17:16:00 GMT -5
Gee, You guys quit talking about dying. It'll be here soon enough. Go plant something.
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 24, 2020 17:10:59 GMT -5
Well, The last time we got too uppity we go the plague. Definitely culled the numbers.
I'm not sure having everyone stay home is the best idea. I remember when we were squidlettes, when one of us got sick, my mom would put us all in the same room, so we'd all get sick at once and she could get back to work. It was simple economics. One kid sick every week, all the kids sick for one week. None of us died from measles or mumps and mom got back to work bringing home that paycheck.
My girlfriend is a waitress, her husband is a chef. They can't not work for 3 months. The restaurant will go out of business if they have to closed for 3 months. I wonder how many thousands of people would have rather been sick for a week and back at it then forced to say home interminably so that old farts like me don't get sick and die?
On the good side, there's less crime and less pollution. Leo says lots less traffic.
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 24, 2020 17:03:45 GMT -5
You mean something similar to Cuzco or something 10 years old?
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