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you never really know what life may bring, i am a runt, i wasn't expected to make it, but with some help and care i survived. if i were...

Mystique is Beautiful. So sorry to hear about the little ram. He had a fighting chance with your care.

Poor little lamb never learned to suck. I slept 3 nights in my recliner, holding him on my chest, wrapped up to keep him warm. I fed him...

I was walking past my hydrangea with a watering can in hand and felt like a small live wire hit my ankle, right on the front. I quickly...

Thanks for sharing this-- it's a fascinating anomaly, and perhaps more common than one would think. Gorgeous blossoms on your sweet pea...

Hello! I am sitting waiting for the latest storm to rumble over and wondering if there will be a dry day coming up to dig the garlic. It...

The dwarfs are starting to turn red! I'd love to attribute this to bred earliness but I'm guessing the heat spell we're in has something...

My instinct and horribly basic understanding of genetics suggest that you wouldn’t get separate strains but would have the same happen...

I’d love to be able to identify this mid-sized tomato. I received it several years ago labelled ‘Wagner Blue Berries’. I think this was...

Good point. It's probably best not to overthink these things. 😉

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One of my favourite summer activities is wandering the garden and checking out the tomatoes. Pictured are Tigrella, Sasha's Altai, and...

There is a remarkable sweet pea vine developing. I had a singleton seed of one variety, a ruffled cream blossom with a slight pink...

We are in a warm dry stretch, which looks to be ideal for seed saving. Yesterday morning I spent an hour harvesting crisp and crunchy...