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morning glory seeds persist for many years after - i just pulled some morning glory plants out of a pathway and a garden that hasn't had any fresh seeds in them for about 10 years. only a few plants, but that is all it takes. what surprises me the most is that the plants can get going even in...

full sun and reasonable garden soil, like onions it doesn't want major competition from weeds and regular watering while growing and then towards when it finishes you hope the rains hold off. i suspect you do not have full sun where you are at.

windy and warm, got out early and weeded until my legs could barely walk up this little hill to get in the garage. i started outside the fence for a half hour then an hour inside the fence and then back outside the fence to get as far as i could in yet another garden. while in the fenced...

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looks like another hot day here (there should be a breeze) and the rains on the radar are not in our forecast until tomorrow afternoon through Tuesday night. based upon what it was like lifting garlic yesterday i don't think any gardens need watering.

viruses are like computer programs printed on paper - dead until loaded and running... what they are describing here are likely very ancient microbes that were at one time symbionts or parasites and then somehow avoided the predation and the immune system of whatever creatures they were hanging...

more interesting cellular life exists than we know and more is being discovered: https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-discover-an-organism-that-defies-the-definition-of-life-sukunaarchaeum/ "Sukunaarchaeum muddies the waters further. It is undeniably cellular, yet its playbook borrows many...

i had yogurt, banana and some blueberries and then for some extra fiber and a bit of crunch i crumbled a graham cracker on it. probably the healthiest breakfast i've had in the past few months.

picked a half dozen Beaver Dam peppers and will enjoy eating a few of those with some BBQ chicken today (from the freezer). Mom asked me if i was going to give some of them away and i said no since i can eat a few a day myself. we have a crop of green and red peppers coming along too but i'm...

DR? we were out for a bit this morning but it got too hot and humid for us. i was glad i could get the garlic lifted and helped Mom with one of her bags of mulch and she was done too. good thing i stopped as after that bag of mulch i was starting to get overheated.

lifted the garlic today. about a month late. recent rains did not help but that's my fault for letting it go so long after being ready. i planted it in two gardens, in the pepper garden (heavier soil with more clay but has been gardened for many years growing green, red and hot peppers)...

i would guess that the bigger the pepper the more sun they will need, but so far i've not grown many smaller pepper plants to find out. where we have them planted each year is full sun and we usually get two to three crops.

so far we've grown Candy onions a few times, last year they had a lot of weird stuff happening inside, i think because the deer ate some of the stalks off and the rain got down inside the onion layer and it started the rot. this year i think they look better but smaller. i need to water them...

i really like that amaranth color. :)

weeded in some rocky areas today. a half hour which was enough. as i'm going along i think of how nice it was that i didn't have to move very many rocks to get at most of the weeds (99% poplar sprouts) and they came out easily. very hot and humid. can finish that up in a few minutes next...

when you dry plants out it does damage to the cells of the plant so that when it gets wet again they will decompose faster. when you get green goodies with the right bacteria and fungi and enough moisture it can turn into sileage, which i think you may be familiar with, pretty much cow kimchee...

haha, not really in most of our gardens that have a lot of clay. i spend more time scraping mud off things than getting much done. a few gardens i can do that have more sandy soil and those are what i will get to first, but as of yet, today has been a useless attempt at trying to get outside...

@ducks4you they do have networks to parts, dealers and used parts and also salvage and junk yards. it's a part of their job IMO and a car person probably knows this too. me not being a car person i'm quite happy if it all happens by magic. :) recently we wanted to replace a CD player in...

yeah, they're not going to do well if neglected after transplanting during a hot spell and a drought. gotta keep some water on them until well established. you can always prune back the obvious dead stuff, give them some water and see if they'll come back.

we ended up with an inch in the rain gauge but there's a good chance there was more because where we have the rain gauge is somewhat surrounded by cedar trees and the swing. we really needed a good soaking so this is a big help. pretty much chances of rain the next two days and nights and then...