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The beginnings of a new Top Bar Hive! This will be a double wall, insulated hive once completed. First Asparagus coming up! And at...

Got to eat some more blackberries today. Gave the garden a serious soaking. The triple digits are going to be here tomorrow. Yuck 🤢

Thank you for letting me know. Now I am beginning to think that I only have one female and the other 2 are drakes ☹️

Got to pick my first zucchini of the season. I also picked a half handful of green beans. I also got and ate my first blackberry. It was...

Kind of late responding to this, but yes, if both your females are mallard-derived breeds (I.e. normal domestic ducks) then your drake...

I have been busy and not really feeling too good. My garden is going good with the corn, green beans and squash plants. I have some...

Hello neighbor! I too spent 20 years in the SF Bay area. We always had a huge garden there with such a long growing season! We grew...

I spent 17 years in East SF Bay area, Union City, with about 300 growing days. We could grow plums and strawberries, beans, roses, and a...

I almost feel like apologizing to my warm-season plants that are outdoors. The tomatoes have been out over a week. The sweetcorn went...

I started my plants late this year, but that was fortuitous. If I'd started them earlier when I usual do, I'd be in your situation now...

I'm throwing in the towel. I have to plant my starts. They are screaming from the greenhouse - Let Us Free!! Its not warm enough during...

Finished yesterday, right before a t storm. I have: 43 porcelain garlic 23 Red German garlic at least 3 of the wonderful, "cannot kill"...

I love all of that garlic talk! I love garlic so much! Whenever a recipe calls for one or two cloves I put in an entire bulb...

Checking in so that @digitS' doesn't go searching for me... Been mowing and weeding, severe tending to my garlic, porcelain garlic, 43...