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  1. ducks4you

    Your Weather, 2025

    Ducks just wanna have fun...
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    What Did You Do In The Garden?

    Sorry!! YOUR thistles are MY burdock! :(
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    Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

    Talked youngest DD into helping me water!! I had the 2 plastic pitchers full and she emptied them into the whiskey barrel planter with the peppers AND helped me get my walker out so that I could water the 2 pepper pots (sans drainage holes) and the big pot with the tomatoes and peppers. NO RAIN...
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    Newbie

    and I am not even a chocolate lover...
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    Coffee

    Today I made it 6 hours before my left leg complained and woke me up at 4:15AM. After months and months of this I Now know all of the overnight live programming. I took yesterdays leftover coffee and microwaved a cup, started newly ground with the timer, took some Advil--the doctors cannot limit...
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    Coffee

    :hugs:hugs:hugs
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    Newbie

    Sorry, I like my yogurt sweetened. We ALL have our guilty pleasures.
  8. ducks4you

    Your Weather, 2025

    Got rain last night. I can tell bc neighbors across the street have their "rain puddle" at the entrance to their driveway. Could really use more... DH complained of being cold on the porch, probably bc we have been living in the AC for nearly 3 weeks straight. It feels like living in Michigan...
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    Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

    Got rain last night. I can tell bc neighbors across the street have their "rain puddle" at the entrance to their driveway. Could really use more... Everything I have transplanted looks good, but my next job will be to water the tomatoes and all of the pots of peppers, which have lovely white...
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    Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

    DH needs to be near to babysit me on the few times I can get outside to do ANY gardening, so I can get some help if I fall. I probably shouldn't be out this soon, 4 weeks past surgery, but DD's absolutely reFUSE to help me with much gardening and are complaining that they will have to mow here...
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    What Did You Do In The Garden?

    Try this--it has been working for me--Cut off most of the top with a saw or reciprocating saw, WEAR GLOVES!, take your spade and dig down and around the rest of the plant, lean back on the spade and pop it out. Yes, there will still be a root. Then do 1 of these 2 things: 1) shove cardboard down...
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    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    @Blue-Jay , I Just came across this article that may help you! :love https://modernfarmer.com/2014/09/build-closed-loop-system/
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    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    @heirloomgirl, these European rabbits, NOT natives breed like...rabbits! I once saw an episode on "Croc Hunter"--I know he passed away some 15 years ago--on how multiplying mice will gnaw away at contained livestock, in this case hogs, tormenting them and making them ill. Rabbits are similar...
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    Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

    Look at what I just found (and saved in "Gardening Articles" under "Gardening" on my laptop: https://modernfarmer.com/2014/09/build-closed-loop-system/
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    Who here has been watching and is a fan of "Gross Pointe Garden Society"?

    No and Yes..l am a pianist but I currently lack an acoustic piano. BUT, it's on my Christmas/Birthday (dec 20th) list for this year. I need to get over to the store that sells used/trade ins and figure out what I want. Btw, my middle DD took the family violin which had a note of 1854 inside...
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    Your Weather, 2025

    WE will get a touch of Fall, starting tomorrow night, highs in the mid 70's/low 80's for the next 6 days.
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    Tree frogs

    I didn't know that they were that big!! I've seen a few of these at my place over the years. Thanks for sharing the neat pictures!! :hugs
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    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    Our Illinois rain this year is SO SPOTTY!!! DH and I drove into C-U on Saturday, driving into and under a shelf cloud. It.poured.buckets of rain There, not a Drop at my house 25 miles SE. THEY had flooding...we had dust bunnies. Such has been our summer and the past few years. A friend...
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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    ...maybe I just need to stop hoarding plants. :):D:lol::lol::lol::gig:gig:gig
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    Baymule’s Farm

    Also, I want to commend you for giving that little guy love and comfort. In other places a sickly lamb would have been treated like refuse. You are loving and caring shepherd. God Bless You!! :hugs:hugs:hugs
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