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    Garden gloves, do you or don't you?

    I like gloves and use them most times, I like the kind that has a cloth back and a rubber palm.I buy these for the both of us and get the size that fits the wife, they fit me better because my fingers go to the end and they feel tight so I have better control Don :watering
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    I keep a large hot pile of compost in the city.

    I too enjoyed your compost information. Right now I am using a tumbler, but after reading your post I am giving though to a bigger pile As we will be only containers next year we will need to give our plants as much help as possible. We have very hard clay here, and I can no longer run a...
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    Canning well under way, pic of what I have so far!

    Your pantry looks great, being a guy I spent a lot of my time with my older brothers trying to work on cars, my mom and dad worked Canning every year..it was great eating. I'm lucky that my wives mother canned and she learned a few things but it has been so many years. We will both have to...
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    June Bug invasion!

    Can you post a mug shot,so I will know the vermin to look for. Don
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    This ought to be a good one.....who is from BYC??

    I am chickensandmore at BYC, but I don't post much anymore..I still have plenty of chickens and more stuff. I do like it over here Very much. I think that I will learn a lot . Don :watering in this 107 temp. I don't remember it being this hot in my youth
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    In Your Potato Patch

    I too have bamboo and we fight it every year..it is alone our fence line..the person next door planted it about 20 years ago and now it takes up so much space..you can kill it with round up but you have to be quick. Cut it about 3inches above ground and then spray it in like 10 seconds or...
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    Grinder?

    Here is the link http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=yE4K3Yl9ufU This guy has the right idea I think, I have quite a few large trees and get so many leaves I though why not..I have a couple of drum Compost bins..lots of dried chicken and rabbit poo so with any kind of...
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    Trust tomatoes

    I think your assIstant is the magic in your green house, great looking mators Jack Don :watering
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    Grinder?

    There is a guy on YouTube that turned an electric mower into s shredder, after seeing that I am on the look out for one myself.. I also have a sears shredder but the motor went bad..worked good when it worked. Don :watering
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    This Bok Choy will have to last me

    Steve, after reading a lot of your post, you are just as I pictured...thanks for the photo Don :watering
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    Pics of the veggie garden....

    Very nice, I sure have a way to go.. I am glad my camera is broke right now..but next year all my containers will be full and I will have a new camera.. Don still :watering and watching my garden grow
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    Potato's & What To Hill Them With?

    I really like this, how tall are your 2x4s and how wide? Do you screw the thing together? This would work for me, we tried tires 1st time ever and got maybe I meal from a 3 high tower.. It was fun and we didn't have any idea what we were doing. Some things just work out like that Don :watering
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    My First Garden! (pics!!)

    Wow, we are not that far apart and my soil looks nothing like that, so nice..... :bow you did a great job Don :watering
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    2011 TEG Giant Pumpkin Contest - JOIN US BY AUGUST 1ST!!

    I really think I better set this one out, but I will keep an eye on the contest. Next year I have big plans for the whole garden,which I am already working on. I have the fencing up, the greenhouse frame up, and the compost tumblers made and working. It will be about 99 % containers We will be...
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    2011 TEG Giant Pumpkin Contest - JOIN US BY AUGUST 1ST!!

    :lau I think that may be an understatement, we have clay and that stuff is like concrete right now :he I just heard on the news that we just broke a record for the most days over 90 degrees closer to 100 for 29 days in a row Don :watering but not doing any good
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    2011 TEG Giant Pumpkin Contest - JOIN US BY AUGUST 1ST!!

    My plants are only 2inches tall, I think I did something wrong? Like plant them :th Don :watering
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    Declaring war on squash vine borers

    Yeah I will get ur done, before fall planting, I am an ole ole man, and things get done in due time :old plus it have been 90 or above mostly way above for the last 28 days and right now there is no end in sight Don :watering
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    Declaring war on squash vine borers

    Yeah me too, sounds like something that could work, I just need to keep my chickens out of the garden, right now they go thur My cattle panels Don :watering
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    Chicken poo mulch?

    We make rabbit and chicken poo tea, 2/3 rabbit poo 1/3 aged chicken poo mix well add water and let set over night pour off the tea And add more water, it sure makes all our stuff perk up, we do that every day until everything is broke down, then give the plants a couple of weeks and start over...
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