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it can depend a lot upon what type of plant it is, but generally if you disturb a plant you want to balance out the amount of roots with how much green stuff there is up top. so knowing when you disturb a plant that you'll be losing some roots to the disturbance then you can probably help...

peas and pea pods. just prepped and cooked. enough for several days of good eats. :)

hopefully have address fixed back to what it should be or at least talked to someone today who seemed able to get it done.

we had a 20F cool off last night with several good rains and today it is supposed to stay about the same temperature. already i've been out to pick some green onions and pea pods and peas and will go out again in a bit and finish going through that patch as there are plenty of peas close to...

about half way through weeding all the fenced gardens. just started on two of them today after finishing up the previous one. we got out there early this morning as i knew i had an errand to run this afternoon and plus i wanted to at least get the two gardens done i was working on the past few...

today while weeding there was this bean plant growing that was not likely to do much as it was overgrown by several feet of beans around it. i removed it and noticed that it had a good 6+ inches of white blanched stem which means it had managed to sprout and come up through that much garden...

looks like we'll get some rains out of this storm. :) perfect. 92F out there and humid. a cool off would be nice plus water all the gardens.

when i was weeding around some of the tomato plants yesterday it reminds me of how much i love the smell of growing tomato plants. :) and then too there was also some shade as they have grown up to be taller than the large tomato cages. a very pleasant microclimate there with the scent and...

maybe pH shift as the potting soil is broken down and replaced by the native soil pH that is around the planting location? i do know that pH can have some effect upon bloom colors so if it does gradually change that would explain it enough for me. one way to test it would be to divide the...

a little over four years ago someone ponders the drinking habits of some other person in another country... and all of this happened since! :) :) :)

if you could use a small lightweight carrier instead that could be rigged to have the door open that you close with a piece of fishing line so that the kitty would be secured and not able to panic in case of something happening (a bird or squirrel goes by? who knows? stuff happens...) train...

dats just crazy!

no way to have a cart or elevator on a rail? i see them for inside going up and down stairs.

shhh, don't give anyone any new ideas...

most of the time in the past for me it has been the strawberries that have done that.