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unfortunately i have no experience with growing this cabbage or for that matter almost all of the rest of them either. i suppose you could remove some or even most of them and leave a few to see what happens?

wow time goes by so fast... :)

raining cats and dogs here, this line of this storm is very narrow but it's right on us and has been for a while. also had a very close strike with lightning that surprised me, usually i have the computer shut down if it gets thunder and lightning. so this power backup and surge protector unit...

sunny and nice morning out there. :) wish my body could go some more hours. weeding and progress happened, sunshine absorbed, birdies listened to. we have a new toy for chopping stuff down, an electric motor that we can put other things on. it came with the string trimmer attachment but we...

i went to sleep last night watching many fireflies out back. so beautiful. they were lighting up the trees and field it was like lightning.

tincture (alcohol of your favorite type mixed with the herbs at their prime potency of the scent(s) you like :) ) or an extract (non-alcoholic and likely more involved).

newp... not even close... the look on the face says all that is needed...

@digitS' can you figure out what that scent is that you're enjoying so much and perhaps do an extraction at that stage to capture it? ;)

yesterday when mowing noticed how many weeds were in the large place i call The Flood Plain that should have been noticed and removed some time ago, but Mom has been busy and so have i... she did say some time ago that she weeded this area and that also meant I would not spend much time looking...

at last the beekeeping people removed their carpeting and metal barrel from our property so i can get that area taken care of and i won't have to worry about disturbing the hives. they did put about a dozen hives in another area that doesn't block access to the back part of our lot.

the surprise for me was the click beetle. the one i missed was the blue tit (we don't have those in the USoA).

@heirloomgal i don't prune our tomato plants either. i figure the plant knows what it is doing much more than i will ever know so let it rip and so far we keep getting plenty of production.

re: wind burn, this is the first year i have seen this sort of damage. not enough to stop any plants from growing but i was wondering if it was too much well water or wood ashes. certainly the recent rains have vastly improved every garden.

@Blue-Jay thanks, yes, that's a lot of work for hot days, glad you are taking care of yourself and not overdoing it. gardens look great and seeing such wonderful garden soil always makes me envious, that you leave footprints when you walk on it even... :)

i was hoping to get out mowing by now but the dew is heavy on the grass and i'm in no hurry. if i have to take a few breaks to cool off then that's just how it goes... so until then i'm killing time doing nothing and enjoying it. i turned off the AC because my feet were so cold and now the...