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as i was shelling out some Purple Dove beans last night (after doing a different box of mixed beans with much tougher pods to shell) i was thinking i should try to make a short video of that since they are so easy to do in comparison - except i don't have a stand or tri-pod for the camera and...

yes, that helped... :)

i now live about an 8hr drive from there and shortly after i left that area i lived in eastern TN for a few years, which is about 20hr drive... i suspect it was the management that failed as it was a small coffeehouse in a college town. we gave it plenty of business while i was there but i...

we never got into that - one experience i missed out on!

you don't want a blowout! the are repairing and rebuilding the four dams from the washout of 2020, so far they are on schedule and within budget (about 400 million). the court case continues (to determine if the state or feds had any responsibility). my brother and SIL live just a few miles...

that is what i did with mine, i'd grind it into a very fine powder to make Turkish style coffee and then pack it tightly into a pint jar and that would last me several years. unfortunately the place with the blend i liked the most folded several years after my last resupply about 20yrs ago and...

we had some snow last night, it hasn't stuck on the driveway yet, but the grass and higher plants have a little bit still on them. the forecast for today includes another inch and then up to three more inches of snow tonight and much colder so the roads may be a mess tomorrow and i might even...

got that garden done, next week sometime i will get on to the tomato garden and get that cleaned up for the winter.

wow, that sounds very complicated and i'm not sure i could do it from the written description alone.

bits of potatoes do not need to go to leaf stage to reform underground if you have a chunk of potato with an eye in it that can form a runner/stolon and it will reform itself into a small potato without ever having to put a leaf above ground - eventually of course to get a bigger potato the...

@Decoy1 growing carrots in drainpipes, that's a new one on me... :)

maybe online only? i dunno...

does this help? https://www.rasnetwork.org/fruits-vegetables/how-store-home-grown-potatoes-right-way/

i don't recall seeing that one before, but that doesn't mean anything... :)

rains last night, looks like i will be putting the hoses up later today and doing some gardening tomorrow to finish up what i'm in the middle of...