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they are woodland edge plants which pop up any time there are disturbances and then they travel. birds spread their seeds. for best results you want full sun, plenty of organic material and room to spread. once they are established then you want to remove the older plants and let them retake...

we have some of those around but not sure i have all of those colors. they are some of the earliest colors we see in the spring.

if that is the same _Dirt_ book as by Montgomery it's well worth the read.

and we can always get imp plants...

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oh my! welcome back! :)

i don't replace deeper layers with shallow soil because the soil microbe community is different. instead i double dig and replace the deeper soil in the bottom, but i also layer it with whatever materials/compost i can find to help break up that deeper layer. here it is not caliche as much as...

ok. strawberries need to be renovated every two to three years, better if you go every other year. you can check them by seeing how big the crown is. once the crown starts to get longer then production will decline. yes, they do need some work. :) the strawberry patch i turned under a few...

hmm, winter kill in strawberries? i've not had that happen here even with very harsh winters, but one thing that did happen one year was that i got some transplanted too late and they were frost heaved out of the ground. do you have full sun there? i see a lot of trees in whatever pictures...

it did get to the forecast 39F today as i was curious i checked the weather station. [as a postscript] i should take a screen shot for the records because it might be the first time this century that they got the temperature right a week in advance...

looks like we missed whatever was supposed to get here last night but this morning we might get a few flurries. the forecast removed all mentions of any snow, rain, ice, sleet, etc... but i do see something on the radar so we'll see what actually gets here. they have not changed the forecast...

by #4 it's fend for yourself as much as you want. :)

yeah, that one i gave up on shortly after starting to watch it. there was another one that came out that i also couldn't watch for very long as it was just missing too much that was pretty clear in the books.

hummingbirds also can eat gnats or any of the tiny other flies or insects that can come out at lower temperatures. we see them hatching in the woods and they look like someone has sprinkled black pepper all over the snow.

investopedia has a lot of short bits to introduce topics and then you can wander around from topic to topic as much as you care to read. however the real long term aspect is the discipline of having a budget and mostly sticking to it and making choices to keep working on my plans for the longer...