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  1. Zeedman

    Quick & Easy Breakfast

    Oh yes it is. I used to make apple butter, but apple sauce is just as good & more versatile. I often question the relative merits of eating an early breakfast, versus not breaking the fast till noon. Now that I am retired & less active, an early breakfast makes me drowsy in mid-morning. So I...
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    Tomatoes for 2025

    Some dehydrated tomatoes can be ground into tomato powder, which is really good for turning a bland soup into something delicious (as are dried sweet peppers). This is also a good way to use tomatoes that have a tough skin when dry. When I dehydrate large numbers of "Elfin", I divide them into...
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    Concerned About Growing Old?

    my first experience with candy was honey horehound, and wintergreen after-dinner mints. Then I discovered a candy store a few blocks away, began collecting discarded soda bottles for refund (There were a lot of bottles on the roadsides back then) and the wheels fell off. 🍬🍭:drool
  4. Zeedman

    Happy Birthday catjac1975

    Happy Birthday @catjac1975 ! 🎂🥳
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    Funny Business

    Oh, I've SO got to try that one! :lol:
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    Garden humor thread..

    It's subliminal - "stoplight syndrome". Green means go, and we can't stop. If plants were red, maybe we wouldn't buy as many. 😄
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    Peppers 2025

    Agreed. Warm temperatures, with dim light, tend to result in leggy plants. The different pepper species have differing light requirements. C. annuum (sweet peppers & many hot peppers, such as jalapeno) need the most light. C. baccatum & C. frutescens peppers (mostly hot peppers) need less...
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    Peppers 2025

    Peppers really need more heat to germinate reliably - especially with older seed, which is often what I am using. I've documented my germination results in past threads. Tomatoes are more tolerant of cooler temperatures, and I see little variation in germination days or vigor, even between new...
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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    Those snow peas won't grow themselves!!! 🤣
  10. Zeedman

    Your Weather, 2024

    The forecast keeps getting revised downward. We barely got above 0F today, -9F expected overnight. Monday night was originally forecast to be -12F, now changed to -16F, with wind chill up to -40F. :ep I'm supposed to make a monthly food bank delivery tomorrow with an open trailer... I hope...
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    Your Weather, 2024

    ONLY??? I never can get used to weather so cold that when you blink, your eye lashes freeze together. :th
  12. Zeedman

    Coffee

    That is my opinion too, on all of the national instant coffee brands. But I really like some of the instant coffees carried by the local Oriental grocery; instant coffee in eastern Asia seems to have been perfected into an art form. I'm really hooked on these, been drinking them for years now.
  13. Zeedman

    Joy in the Little Things

    Wow, that looks good. I'm guessing from the air cells that this too is a sourdough bread? Could you post the recipe? I'm always looking for new breads & love the flavor of black sesame, which I already use in my hot cereal mix.
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    Your Weather, 2024

    It was a comparatively warm day today, low 40's F - which is a good thing, because I had to thaw out my sub pump discharge hose. It had become clogged with ice in the sub-zero blast earlier in the week... ... which AGAIN caused the lines to one of my sub pumps to blow out, and to flood part of...
  15. Zeedman

    Concerned About Growing Old?

    Now, with spoofing, we once again don't know who it is. So just like the good ole days, but without the party lines (and for you young uns, there were no parties there). :old
  16. Zeedman

    The Cat's Outta the Bag!

    ... and that really is fur in your mouth. :ep
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    i didn't know this!

    Not sure there's really a wrong answer. 😆
  18. Zeedman

    Coffee

    Persimmons deadly? I've eaten them by the case, sometimes the first thing I eat in the morning. Still kicking X 2. The concern might be with eating American persimmons before they are fully ripe. I don't like those, only eat the flattened, firm, fuyu persimmons. Some claim that raw green beans...
  19. Zeedman

    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    Bit by bit, we get bit by the bit, while they hold the reins. Neigh... whinny... Postage increases here are twice a year now... and heavily focused on packages. :( What the govt fails to understand is that... ... the faster they increase their rates ............ the faster people will look...
  20. Zeedman

    Funny Business

    One can never Cara-cara too much. Orange you glad you do? 😁
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