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    Anyone else start planning next year's garden this time of year?

    most of my planning usually runs several years in advance. downsizing some things and making room for other things that Mom wants more of we usually talk about this in the middle of winter and then i try to fine tune it for the various garden spaces.
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    Concerned About Growing Old?

    i remember several trips where i spent most of the time on the ledge along the back window while my siblings were in the back seat.
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    Your Weather, 2025

    we've had ours on a few times last week, but not the past few days. a few days last week we also had the heat on at night and then the day was hot and humid enough that Mom wanted the AC on (crazy talk i know...).
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    Tomatoes 2025

    it could be a borderline case of BER, you won't know until you harvest and cut into some of them. this evening we were processing (just finished scalding, coring, peeling and chunking) the next round of tomatoes and a few of them looked fine from the outside but once cut into them they had...
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    Tomatoes 2025

    looks like BER to me. if the tomato is in a hot location and doesn't get enough regular water. [sorry for delay, i wrote this but then got interrupted last night and failed to post it :) ]
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    stubbed toes and mud pies

    a friend wanted some green peppers and the Beaver Dam pepper so he could dehydrate them. i picked two good boxes full plus the extra peppers i had from the other day went to him. glad to help him out as he said he was just going to place an order for a half bushel of peppers. he got about an...
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    If You Could Grow Only One Crop This Season, What Would It Be?

    i think it just happens and also is common practice in cucumber seed mixes for them to put a few off variety seeds to encourage better pollination.
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    Your Weather, 2025

    very little rain here lately which is ok. i did water some bean plants and some other edge plants i wanted to keep going.
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    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    yes, this is the time of the year when beans are somewhat finishing up and they can look rather beat up between the weather, Japanese Beetles and the dropping leaves. time to get picking as soon as i can get around to it again. a lot of other things going on...
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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    yes, and you can often divide those up into parts and plant those to get a larger patch if you need to... :)
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    stubbed toes and mud pies

    still haven't mowed, hope to get that done today. trash day, woke up an hour and a half early... *grumpsmirk* yesterday was the odds and ends day. we had a new friend come over to help me put the replacement piece of orange stained glass up on the lighthouse (it got blown out several months...
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    What’s Your Go-To Organic Pest Control Method? 🐛✨

    i just take a tiny 2oz sample cup with a lid and poke a hole in the lid that the gnats and fruitflies can get through and then inside i put some vinegar with a drop of dishsoap in it. that will usually capture them and i clean i out once in a while. we don't normally have too many gnats or...
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    Quotes and thoughts for the day

    well now i see it sticking it's head out but that wasn't what i saw before. :) yes, oops... sometimes i save the images and have to magnify them to see what is going on. this time i didn't. coffee would not have helped... :)
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    Quotes and thoughts for the day

    looks like some kind of marker on it.
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    Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

    just the other day i was talking to Mom about how we used to stuff tomatoes with tuna salad (all cold and not cooked) which made for a good hot summer day meal. the last batch of tomatoes i have sittinig on the counter sure don't look that pretty - many of them have deep splits that i'll cut...
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