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Love to see people saving seeds! :love

There's no deer here. My neighbours who are deer hunters have to drive several hours to get them. Thank heavens!

Managed to get the tomato & pepper seedlings in the greenhouse for awhile today. I would have liked to leave them in longer but once the sun ducked behind the clouds, the temps plummeted. Didn't want to rake any chances. Edema has cropped up in some of the tomato seedlings, clearly in the...

It's such a small thing, but I FINALLY got a single pink skirret seed to sprout...... and I feel effervescent. Like, 'whoopa whoopa do a little jig' happy. My prior record of complete failure with perennial seeds probably causes me to celebrate this victory a little more than what's normal. 🤪...

My gosh she is a cute dog @Marie2020. This is going to sound like a really funny question, but have you ever heard of FOMO? What you've described sounds like that? My dog had it when he was about a year old.

Quite the opposite ducks, you always bring me up :hugs

One of those songs that just stuck the first time I heard it, lol, catchy Tell Mom the Words The wind of change will decorate my shadow at night Based on the songs, I will build a carousel Everything you dreamed about is covered by a wild flame We are at the end of the tunnel, after...

I met a couple who had a Doberman exactly like this, to a T. So much the same it makes me wonder if its a breed quirk or something. They really enjoyed him, thought he was hysterical, acting more like a cute golden retriever puppy than a big scary Dobe. A Mr. Snuggly. But after he turned...

Finally got the sweet pea flower seeds all planted!!!! :th Overdoit is my middle name, and I lived up to it with those seeds. It's going just below freezing tonight; I think I'll leave the perennial onions out there. I would imagine that they are fairly hardy, and I've had them outside for...

My last bean parcel for the season arrived today. 💛 I'm up to my elbows in beans for 2026... I may have even overdone it a little. 🫠 However, I remain a firm believer that there is no such thing as too many beans! Network seeds get #1 priority, and I guess I'll have to sift through...

I've found beans to be very sensitive to moisture, more so perhaps than any other vegetable seed. I bought a hand held pump action water sprayer last year, instead of using a small watering can for my bean starts in little pots. My germination rates across the board actually increased, and I...

I've lost count how many people in my life orbit that have passed away from blood clots, and other related injuries. So sad.

He looks young yet, give him time. He'll get there. 😂

I hope you're right @flowerbug, it makes sense with what I've seen with garlic too. It sprouts in its bamboo box under my counter. It's some garlic mega growers that sorta filled my head with vernalization of necessity thoughts, but really I wonder if planting in cold weather is more about...

Oh goodie goodie the nicandra all came up! The last time I planted seeds for it I bombed, and got nothing but a single plant pop up in a golden berry planting 2 months later because I had reused the soil thinking the seeds were dead. I realize they might be a weedy flower, but I do have a...

Wouldn't you know it, I woke up this morning to a perfectly round, golf ball sized hole right smack in my Kintoki carrot row! I stuck my finger in it but it didn't seem to lead anywhere? Odd. DH & DS finished staining the bean trellis and my new cedar long planter that was made last year...

I savored my first meal of sunchokes this evening from freshly dug tubers. They were absolutely delicious, I felt almost dizzy with enjoyment. DD had some with me and just as we were finishing our plates she said she still can't believe how utterly addictive these nuggets are. I wondered if...

And I think it's a pretty universal experience for homeschooling moms who themselves went through institutional education to get to a point where your kids are so lit up with natural curiosity & passion that they wind up teaching you. 😂

It's uplifting to see how many moms are turning to homeschooling. I've been amazed at how much my kids flourished once I got them out of the system; they did well inside of it by their metrics, mostly A's and some B's, but those metrics are relatively inconsequential in the school of life. The...

It was actually HOT today, so hot that I decided to plant some carrot seeds. This is about 35-40 days earlier than I would normally put them in but I have double packs of most of them anyway. It was soooo deeply satisfying getting that fork in the sandy carrot soil and working the beds. The...