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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...

Next week will mark the end of dog training classes for awhile, not sure if we'll go back for anything but advanced scent detection class. There isn't a ton more for us to learn as it's been 6 months at this point, and also, it's not easy seeing people trapped in a bad place with their dog...

I'm am so ECSTATIC about the weather. I don't want to count my eggs before they hatch, but we've had 2 days this week that were so nice, like 19 C/66F. Hope. The past 2 seasons spring/early summer has been so cold that I have struggled to harden plants off before the official planting date...

Picked these tomatoes this year for their names, 'Great Scott' (an expression I've always found so cute) and 'Cinnamon Girl'. Cinnamon Girl was bred by a Canadian woman with a rather popular line of tomatoes called KARMA. This one is a cinnamon colored cherry tomato, resistant to cracking...

Happy belated birthday to Rome! 🇮🇹 Rome celebrates its 2,779th birthday April 21st marking the legendary founding of the city by Romulus on this day in 753 BC. I didn't know until this year that it's also called the 'Eternal City'. Every year on April 21st, at precisely 12:00 PM, a beam of...

Sure @oxbow farm, I don't have a link because I used an AI research tool so I copied and pasted the info here. I think bee information would be pretty specific to region, and I'd think Brazil would be quite different than North America, though I haven't researched it so am not sure. Funny to...

I checked for fun on this bee situation, as I've always wondered myself. Europe has between 2,00 - 2,500 kinds of bees and North America has 4,000 - 4,500. A number of North America's bees are invasive imports; the honey bee, giant resin bee, wool carder bee and the horned face bee are all...

The seed sowing continues, even though today and tomorrow are not the best days for planting anything but leaf crops according to the lunar calendar. I felt the seeds needed to go in from a time perspective though. Luckily the danger in the next 2 days is rot, from water energy being...

A new plant I'm growing for 2026 - Jaltomato Aguaymato. Growing info is a bit elusive, I'm going on a wing and prayer with this one.

I ordered some iris's online last night, now that is a first for me! I've come by the only 2 iris varieties I've ever grown by a neighbour giving me some, and I saw a nice one at a greenhouse 2 years ago. I only have one left now. So, seeing as I've been so happy with the remaining one (now...

Me too, I always hesitated to consider the lunar calendar in my sowing plans because I usually feel like my plate is full as it is, without yet another consideration to have to factor in. It was when I was planting some ground cherries a few years ago & noticed a big shift in germination rates...

I'm really surprised to read that you've grown Ukrainian Pole twice and both times it didn't produce well? I've only grown it one time but it really yielded heavily? One of the tops in 2025. But I guess with beans, they can be such fickle plants. One year they're happy, another year not so...