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Or, isn't it surprising .. . that a rose is in that family? It might have been called the Spirea family, spiraling out over a lot of ground. But, that describes the leaf growth rather than migration pattern. Quite the bed of roses for an apple a day. ;) Steve

Set up the hoops for the 9' by 20' hoophouse. Driving rebar stakes, putting together the pvc pipe, setting them in place — that is about all I accomplished in a couple of hours. Too windy, with 30mph gusts, to be messing with the plastic film. It's a tad late by the calendar for the hoophouse...

Since it is World Poetry Day

My hernia surgery seemed remarkably non-invasive. At the same time, I felt rather stunned following, if that is the right word. I was glad that, partly because of the timing, I had very little to do for several days. The first 2 or 3, most of my physical problem was simply standing up from...

Corn Flakes • Rice Chex • sliced banana • raisins and a small bowl of applesauce, along side. Oolong. I am also confused about the weather, @Gardening with Rabbits. Soil temperature at 35⁰f?! Soil temperature here at home where I could keep track of it didn't work so well as a guide. It varied...

Oh my! The wild roses here have rose hips that are so sour. sshhhivering Steve

My 30 minutes of exercise today was trying to level a step in the garden. After laying out some bricks and making use of them for 3 years, a tree root began pushing up from below. It's from a tree that the neighbor had taken out several years ago. Shoots continued to show up in her yard so I...

Kale from the garden, not in but along side, a bowl of noodles. Nothing in that noodle bowl is from the garden. Shucks. We may have jumped the gun a little because it nearly whittles the kale stems down to having zero leaves and no buds yet. The leaves were incredibly tender and mild! It...

If you like ginger and cayenne pepper, @Marie2020 ... 🥵 ... there may be a Summertime drink for you at the Asian market. Maybe you have a Caribbean market in your neighborhood. Jamaicans must appreciate that same hot pepper and ginger and sell a bottled drink for your hot time of the year...

Interesting and entertaining second video on Ginger ... Harvesting was briefly touched on during the final 90 seconds but, of course, that's why I grow ginger every year. And no, we don't need another house plant during the Winter even if it saves a trip to the soopermarket to buy a couple of...

Openness and Balance or ...

Mother Nature is giving us records again. They aren't afternoon highs, however. The thermometer is coming close for those but there is just too much cloud cover. The records come overnight with the temperature staying above 50⁰f (10⁰C). In the nearly 150 of record keeping here, this has not...

Ha! I neglected to say that the scent was caffeine ...

Here's a little something I came across recently –– Garden Related :). "When bees and other pollinators learn to associate floral scent with food while foraging, they are more likely to visit flowers bearing the same scent signals. Such behaviour increases their foraging efficiency while...

Informative. Certainly in @Alasgun 's bailiwick but I also thought of @AMKuska . Steve