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Me, too!! Eldest DD left me some mushrooms. I cut them up and started dehydrating, one tray. Should store nicely in a 1/2 pint jar. Btw, local small grocery store sells, Anchor brand canning lids, NOT the best, but without any writing stamped on them. They do well for marking with a Sharpie...

We have settled into clammy cold...with some sun.

Eldest DD bought me some gifts at ALDI yesterday, a Bypass pruner with: Fork Large Knife Wood Saw Peel and Soil Knife AND a set of Knee Pads.

I bought 4 of these blue pots at Dollar General back in early March. It is good know When stores like this Have Stuff like this. It is first come, first served, then, they are gone. i bought 1 large pot ($10), not used Yet, 2 medium sized pots ($5), which have herbs and one small ($2.50)...

BTW, "Moon," is one of the best sci fi movies out there: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/

YUCK!! I had to destroy a wild rose living on the south fencing of my south pasture. I could not beLIEVE how thick the thorns were on this! They do burn good...

STILL trying to get a good night's sleep every night. IT's hit and miss, so some days I don't get much done. Such was yesterday, but I Finally transplanted the 3rd Blueberry. In a row from east to west Legacy---Legacy---Blue Crop I still have to transplant the 2 seedless Concord Grapes. They...

I certainly Could do this! My firepit is from a hardware store kit of "tumbled belgian pavers," really tumbled cement bricks, some 3 layers high, with a metal liner and packages of pea stone at the bottom. I regularly clean out the ashes and I have a place in the side yard where I dump them...

@Rillowen bind weed is very difficult. In the past, prior to bad now repaired knees, I spent a good week digging up and eliminating bindweed on the west edge of my 4 car garage. I used a shovel, a painter's bucket and I cleaned the soil from bindweed runners in a wheelbarrow, then amended it...

Funny about weeds and how our relationships with them. I usually pull OUT wild violet wherever I find it, not too hard, shalow-ish roots, a small hand trowel will get them out for you, but I decided This year to leave them under my pear tree. Dunno about Any peaches from either tree this year...

SO PRETTY!!

If not you COULD start a new thread, and make your last post on This one as a link to it.

https://modernfarmer.com/2026/04/permaculture-brandy-hall/

All over the property and in the house I have to fight. Save the ponies from the pastures--don't let them on it too soon in the Spring in order to avoid grass founder. Save the pastures from the ponies--don't let them graze down too much, except for the Inner Sanctum, which won't see them until...

Yesterday DD"s came over and we mowed the 1 acre "yard" and the South Pasture. Looking Very good! I took my big loppers out and cut back the pine tree limbs making it possible to drive underneath 3 of the south fencing pine trees. My loppers can cut 1"+ pine limbs. Youngest DD made a last...