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Yeah! It's time to start thinking about second crops people! :D PM me your address riverman and I will send those off.

Quick update, my chufa plants are about 4" tall right now. I used them as a border and they do make a nice ornamental grass. Well see how they are come harvest time. :D

Yikes! The last thing I canned that didn't set I added no sugar needed pectin to it and tried again. It worked. I guess you could add more sugar, more regular pectin and try again.

What about deer netting? You can hardly see it. All you would need are corner posts.

Don't forget to roast the seeds... http://www.examiner.com/low-carb-in-denver/recipe-perky-pumpkin-seeds

I have tried starting corn early and then transplanting. It seems to be hit or miss. I am not going to bother next year. Just put all the seeds in the ground.

This sounds yummy! http://www.spicysaltysweet.com/2008/12/11/baked-butternut-squash-chips/ And yes, the ducks are cute. Makes it hard come freezer camp time...so I have only been sending obnoxious drakes to Camp Kenmore :D

The only bird I am having trouble with is my duck Shelley! She has figured out a new way to escape from the pen and has wiped out a bed of kale, a bed of lettuce, and a bed of swiss chard. If she wasn't so cute she would be on the grill by now :P

I picked up a couple of buttercup squash plants. Despite the squirrels digging them up at one point, they seem to be doing well. I also planted some organic blue pumpkin. Those are getting big. Because hard winter squash can store for so long I don't really think there is such a thing as "too...

What is that white stuff on the ground around the plant?

I have a vitamin cottage near me so I can get all kinds of weirdness :). Whole foods also carries them. If you have to order online, check out www.netrition.com or www.oilsbynature.com

Rolly polly, earwig, slug... All love beans. Get some crushed oyster shells and spread those around the plants.

Or the extra carrot-tyness of a fresh picked carrot. I had one of those and a handful of snow peas for breakfast :D

AAAhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! :hide Hee hee hee. I general I think snakes are cool. But not when they steal eggs!

It is a darn good thing I went out and cut them all. I found about a dozen little green caterpillars when I was cleaning the leaves. I also found a couple of clutches of white fly eggs. Looks like I got to everything just in time. I used the more tender leaves to make a 2.5 qt batch of coleslaw...

"Never give up! Never surrender!" Of course that was said in Galaxy Quest and dealt with alien invaders, but bugs count as alien invaders, right? :D

This is my first year growing it. It should have headed by now but our weird weather was really cold for a long time and now we are going to hit record highs. So no real hope of it heading, so I cut it back. Allegedly it can be cut and come again. Is this true??? Anyone try this? If it's not...

I keep it really simple. Chive vinegar, olive, walnut or almond oil (walnut is really yum), fresh ground pepper, sea salt, a little fresh thyme, and a touch of honey. Sorry, i don't measure so I can't be more specific. just taste as you go. This dressing is really good on a salad made of...

I use fresh herbs and strain everything out before the final bottling. You could put in a fresh sprig at bottling time if you wanted to make it decorative.

I looked all over :( Now the cilantro is a whole nother story! I think it seeded the entire neighborhood! :lol: