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    Spring Phlox...How to collect seeds?

    Okay I was wondering if anyone has figured out a way on how to collect spring phlox seeds ...this is the tall variety( up here found on the road side) and the seed pods are long and narrow and branch out from a main stem .. There starting to turn yellowish now....should I cut them off at the...
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    My absense - and beware, truly, of the deer tick!

    OMG!! Glad to hear you listened to your sister...and the doctors were on the ball.... A mother my daughter went to school with had Lyme disease caught in the later stages...and I remember her going through hell....to the point where they put a hospital bed in the livingroom....dont want to put...
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    Why night gardening is dangerous

    OUCH!! Your going to have to start wearing work boots when gardening at night...hope everythings okay
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    Peeing into the compost pile

    Thanks so much Pat.....I wouldnt have to put some lime on the pile would I?
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    Peeing into the compost pile

    Thanks so much ! Great information...We basically have straight horse manure with some urine soaked hay....our girls are out 24/7 and we normally muck the shelter and mud paddock area....and the coop has poop boards so I have been stashing the poop from that and putting it in garbage containers...
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    Peeing into the compost pile

    Thank you ...Merci ! So tell me can you give me some nitrogen ideas to put in my compost pile..other than pee.....would it be green stuff...leaves...grass clippings? ......what about old hay and chicken coop shavings...? Horse manure? thanks so much...
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    Starting a new tree/shrub....

    I have a cork screw willow tree...witch hazel ?....that is about 4 years old ...I have moved it twice now and this year its really doing good....I was wondering if I pin down one of the branches to the ground and bury it how long it would take to have another tree/shrub?......Would I cut it off...
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    Little White Spots & Holes on My Cukes & Pumpkins

    Has it rained hard or hailed in your area? Do the white spots look like little craters?....
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    what do you use for mulch in your garden?

    Wow ...thanks for that information....
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    What does it mean when your...

    What I would do is let them flower and when the plant starts to turn yellow and die back I would start checking for potato's....but once again thats me....plus i leave them in the ground and get them when i need them for supper before the ground starts to freeze then i remove them and put them...
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    Oh my aching bones.....

    OOOOOOH Man.....grab a tea towel.....hee hee hee...and a small cup so you can do each plant a little at a time.....remember to take a break Hey your from the same place "Hidelight" is from...just learned where that place was today.... Okay go on whining now....
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    Oh my aching bones.....

    LOL oooops!! .....I was talking in my head and not typing it down properly probably too much blood in my head from me bending down weeding all weekend.... I ment to say i tie it to my jeans to wipe the sweat off my face ....instead of my dirty shirt ......
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    Oh my aching bones.....

    I know what you mean....my kids were whining they have no cloths ! Imagine that....
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    Oh my aching bones.....

    I was up in your neck of the woods about two weeks ago...Hubby and I flew out to Vancouver B.C and we drove into the Okanagan Valley(where I am from) to visit some family and then we drove down to Portland Oregon for bussiness through Washington/osooyoos border....We always enjoy the drive down...
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