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http://www.durgan.org/URL/?XMKRU 7 January 2013 Chitting Potatoes Chitting potatoes is the process of growth under bright light conditions to form shoots from the eyes. This gives the seed stock an early start. This year I wish to experiment as follows: ONE. Grow twelve plants by allowing only...

Straw can be a pain to handle after its mulching function is done. It also can mat and is difficult to handle in many situations. If I do use it which is not often any more, I put it through the chipper/shredder to reduce before working into the soil. Now I use wood chips which have been...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?SNZAE 5 January 2013 Walla Walla Onion Checking seeds for viability. The typical method.I require about sixty Walla Walla onion seedlings.It is most annoying to plants seeds and find that the germination is very low, so I check them using the following method.Place the...

I am going to wait until about the 15 of February to start the tomato plants. I only need about 25 plants. Am now selecting the variety. I am in Zone 5 and cannot place in the outdoor garden until the end of May.

Fifty eight degrees F is a reasonable temperature. Also, in direct sunlight the surface of the pots will be much warmer. Protect from wind, which can lower temperatures severely. Even in my greenhouse the temperature is around 40 to 50 F during the night, when the outside temperature is around...

Seeds don't need light to germinate. All that is required is moisture and an appropriate warm temperature which is a fairly wide range. However, immediately after sprouting the plants needs light primarily sunlight. This means means moving outdoors in the daytime and taking in at night when it...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?GFWKU 3 January 2013 Beef Jerky It was decided to make beef jerky from about 1.9 pounds of flank steak. The steak was cut into strips longitudinally or with the grain. The product was then marinated with a home mixture of soy sauce,HP sauce,black pepper, sea salt, and...

A small rototiller. Honda FG110G http://www.durgan.org/URL/?ZDDKN 26 May 2008 Planting Red-haven peach Tree. Honda in action. These small machine reduces the labor for backyard gardening by a guess-a-mate of about 80%.Demonstrated is the manual kick sod cutter, and reducing sod so the grass...

I suppose if one ingests soap.

The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) http://librivox.org/the-book-of-life-by-upton-sinclair/ http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38117/38117-h/38117-h.htm PART TWO: THE BOOK OF THE BODY Chapter XVIII. The Unity of the Body 105 Discusses the body as a whole, and shows that health is...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?CJKXT 15 July 2012 European Gooseberry Harvest. Seven pounds of berries were picked from the one European Gooseberry bush in the garden. These berries are large compared to the American Gooseberry, about the size of a large marble. Criteria for when to pick was, some...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?TPVRN 26 August 2012 Elderberry Juice This year about 30 pounds of elderberries have been picked and processed into juice.About two pounds of berries make one litre of juice.The berries are not as prolific this year due to a long drought. To date 14 litres have been...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?CHIZZ 29 December 2012 Pilot Bread.Wheat,potato,quinoa,poppy,pumpkin Pilot bread made from whole grain flour, Russian blue potatoes, quinoa, poppy seeds, and pumpkin juice. Called pilot bread, since it is very hard, with most of the moisture removed and has to be...

I only grow a few plants for fresh corn and buy from local producers for canning. With a bit of effort at planting time, germination is almost 100 percent, and the birds cause no damage. http://www.durgan.org/URL/?QPDGU 31 August 2012 Corn Produced. About 75 cobs of quality corn corn was...

A post on another forum. Semper Location: AZ, I have just recovered from a bedbug nightmare. They are nearly impossible to kill. Wash all clothes, linnens, towels, drapes- once a week while bug bombing the house with bedbug strength. They are tough little critters. Diatomaceous earth does...

We had bed bugs in our old homestead log house and simply used coal oil wiped on the bed surfaces to remove them. Also, we didn't have the stuffed furniture or elaborate bed mattresses now available. Listening to the radio with people describing an infestation, it appears to be a nightmare. I...

A friend's wife works in a local chain motel. It was told to me that bed bugs are a constant hassle. It is necessqry to be constantly decontaminating the rooms. No hotel room is immune from the most luxurious to the least so. New York is seriously infested as are most major cities in North...

Handling pictures for blogs and forums and Email. Get a domain, internet host. I use Midphase for about 7.00 per month. http://www.midphase.com/website-hosting/windows-hosting.php Buy Breezebrowser for handling your pictures on your computer. This creates the HTML pages and stores your...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?TDIVJ 17 December 2012 Pilot Bread:Wheat,corn,quinoa,sunflower. http://www.durgan.org/URL/?ZWVZC 6 August 2012 Corn Juice. Pilot bread was made using whole grain wheat flour,corn juice for the liquid,sunflower,and quinoa. Called pilot bread, since it is very hard...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?JRGVQ 17 December 2012 Birthday Photos 77 years. With all the pictures I take, there are few of me, since I am usually the shooter. When one in a group is asked to take some photos, they all appear to be ignorant of the use of a camera. Anyway here are some of me...