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Yeah, mine are the ancient 3+ ft diameter trunk hardwoods. Knock on wood, we've never even had a heavy limb fall from any of them. The danger for us are the old dogwood trees that are about 20-25 ft from the house. The trunk of the dogwoods are also over 3 ft but dogwoods are notoriously weak...

Do you have any shade trees around your house? That's one of the main things that drew me to want this property when we were house shopping... There's at least a dozen enormous hardwoods all around the house and yard. They provide critical shade to help keep our house cooler... Of course the...

Well... I did it. I bought the Small Harvest Right freeze dryer. I have a farm table that's in a little breakfast nook in my kitchen. We don't eat there as it's right by the door to the garage, opting for the dining room instead. I'm just going to put it on that farm table... Not ideal but will...

Seed Savers Exchange has a really good book on their website about how to collect seeds from just about everything. I've used it quite a bit over the past few years.

I have corn seed from Baker Creek that was ordered in late 2022 or early 2023. I planted it last season and this spring. All of that has come up. Even the seeds I planted this year from the old packets. Just my personal speculation, but most of the seeds from them that I received from last...

Oh yes... It was stupid hot and humid today. DH was outside hanging laundry on the line. I was like "you know that's going to take FOREVER to dry in this humidity?!?!". Thirty minutes later he came back in the house and I thought he'd doused himself with the house. Um.. Nope. He was just...

Yes... I posted about this very topic a few pages back. I've bought quite a few seed packets (over 3 dozen+ through 2 different accounts). I didn't post everything on here but after I noticed how many packets had ZERO germination, I started to look closer. Of the dozens of purchases I've made...

Collected about a dozen picolinos. Decided to make a jar of bread and butter pickle slices. Those suckers are quite productive...

Re-sowed the Borage from a different seed packet. We'll see if this one grows anything... I threw some dill seed in the same general vicinity just to see if something else germinates in that area... BTW, when I was looking over my tomatoes yesterday, I noticed a bunch of frass on the...

Hmmm, we didn't have either drought or extreme cold. Maybe they are reacting to something sprayed in the atmosphere? Catawbas seem to be very sensitive to those things. More so than Concords...

I noticed my Catawba grapes are full of fruit, but no foliage. Very weird... You can see them here behind the roses My Concords, on the other hand, are a jungle.... And they are just a few feet down the fence from the Catawbas.

Took some updated garden pics. Still only about halfway through cleaning up all the growth after being gone... Cukes that are/were hiding the snake that nearly bit me. Haven't seen it since. Corn looking good but starting to see flea beetle damage. I ***HAVE*** to address the overgrowth...

Hmmm, that's REALLY good to know. I was thinking about putting it either in my gardening shed, garage, or sun room. None of those are below 72 degrees in the summer... And a dedicated circuit is also not ideal although I could probably make it work.

I watched a good video on YouTube about rehydration and what's good or what doesn't rehydrate well. Would love your 2 cents as you experiment...

Bought a new tractor tonight... Kubota L2502 with backhoe, bush hog, and auger. Supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow. Reseeded (for the 3rd time) some things that haven't come up or came up patchy.

I get my next bonus on 6/15. I will most likely break down and buy one with it.

Blue racers will stand up like that... It's enough to take a few years off your life, for sure. As for the snake in my cukes, if he wants to hunt that dang gopher or any voles, he's more than welcome to hang around.... 😂

I've been told that's a myth. King snakes will kill copperheads but not rat snakes.

Went out to get the mail and stopped to look at my cukes. They are planted in this raised bed trellis (although I've removed netting 2 weeks ago because DH got it caught in the mower...). About had a heart attack when a snake tried to strike at my face when I was looking under the leaves. I...

I'm waffling so badly on buying one!