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    Happy Thanksgiving

    Happy thanksgiving to you from your friends in Oklahoma Don and Ellen
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    "To stop the flow of music

    I have always loved music,was wild about blues and wanted so bad to play the saxs,when a music teacher told me my teeth were wrong for the sax. So I never learned anything...well maybe a couple of things... Like don't stick your tongue on a frozen metal pole..but nothing To do with music...
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    Will chickens love my dogs?

    Chickens and dogs are funny, sometimes they get along great right from the start..if you are getting baby chicks make sure you expose your dogs to them from day one and let the dogs know that they are here to stay..when I hatch new chicks the dogs know that we are all on this land together and...
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    Sharing a funny little story

    Great story, thanks for sharing the wife and I got a good laugh, your mom sounds like our kind of people Don
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    To Rototil or Not?

    I don't till, I container..fewer weeds almost none, and much easier on the back...and cheaper no tiller cost or up keep Don ( the lazy gardener ) I should change my user ID
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    on your to-do list

    List!!,I don't need no stinkin list, I always have so much to do here.. Now where did I leave my list? Don
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    Like to Find Yourself in . . .

    I live in Oklahoma now and I am glad that I am not from timbuctoo cal. I used to have a saying about timbuctoo I just can't remember what it is now, I guess I'm like Rick Perry I had a brain freeze. But mine seems to lasting more that 54 seconds LOL Opps Don
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    What's the deal with Paw Paws

    Well I was a little surprised that I didn't get a single reply to this topic, with all the great gardeners in the south east. Maybe I should rethink buying some trees. I was hoping to get an opinion other than the seller..oh well I will stick to apples and pears Don
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    Like to Find Yourself in . . .

    Well I'm not sure I have ever been in doubt, but I do like things that are Peculiar‎ , and that is just what I found every time I went to Peculiar Missouri Don
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    Who are you, and what does that avatar really mean?

    My avatar is of my Lab,which I think of as one of my kids, just love that dog......and my user name is garden toad cause I like to garden and I always feel like a toad.. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.. Don
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    Folks in OK had about all they can take?

    No way, we're Okies we pick our selfs up brush off and then we stick together next year may be better!!! Don
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    Rabbit butchering postponed

    Yeah, I should be putting a couple in the freezer myself, just can't seem to get started.. Maybe tomorrow Don
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    How did You get Here!?

    At this time it has to be our health.
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    This is the Internet . . .

    I use street view when I am going to an auction if I have never been in the area. Yes I am an auctionholic.. Lots of great garden items can be found... And just a lot of great junk which sometimes become new treasure for me Don
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    What's the deal with Paw Paws

    I just heard of these today, would like some first hand info Taste Growing If you grow them would you do it again? Anything else I should know TIA Don
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    CONTAINER GARDEN - PREPARING POTS FOR NEXT YEAR?

    I don't plan on dumping the old soil, at least not all of it. As with an in ground garden I just plan to recondition the soil each year. Take a soil test and see what it needs for what ever my plan calls for that pot. I think that it will save me money in the long run cause I don't have to...
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    CONTAINER GARDEN - PREPARING POTS FOR NEXT YEAR?

    Yes I was using it this year but only a few of them..I add them as I can find the barrels cheap. It is very easy to garden like this..sold my tiller and picked up a very nice set of hand garden tools...we have clay soil and it was just almost impossible to work it with a bad back.. And I so much...
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    CONTAINER GARDEN - PREPARING POTS FOR NEXT YEAR?

    Just wanted to share the first 2 rows of my container garden, It will have a total of 90 pots like these there will be 6 rows of 15 and another 20 or so for corn, and melons, and gourds you get the idea..we will also have some new tater towers that I am working on. my garden is about 50x50 they...
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    I did it!

    Cool hope you like it, I just sold mine today..it just wouldn't work in my containers..and I am long past those big monsters. And steve I too have been injured with those old beaters, from licking the cake mix off of them..sometimes I still speak with forked tounge. LOL Don
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    new hatches

    I have read a couple ways to break up a broody hen 1. Place her in a wire bottom cage for a couple of days with no nesting materials 2. Make a recording of baby chicks and play it back to her when she starts to set for a few mintues at a time and that should break her cycle. I asked my mom...
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