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when i saw the title for this thread i thought to myself as a joke that that would be about perfect as that would be about how long i'd keep them alive. note that was just humor and not my own past history with succulents. as a kid and going into a teen years i had a succulent collection in a...

you'd need pretty well drained soil. we can't kill them here (even in a raised spot and never had to water them they kept going until we removed them because they kept dropping all those seeds and Mom did not want to keep them up. right now in that same general area there's a garden that...

so far we got about three drops of rain. storms are popped up just a bit to the east of us. hot...

that's quite a bit above Jumbo size (70.9g)! wow...

Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall are my favorites.

this morning got out early enough to see if i could find the tomato worms, and i did find one but i suspect there might be another. heading out to get going on weeding this morning asap. it's very humid and no breeze at all so far but it is supposed to be there eventually, i guess. chances of...

Four O'Clocks were probably the first plant i became aware of as a very young child. i remember seeing the seeds and thinking they were miniature grenades. my aunt had them along the side of her house and my uncle was a gardener. they're very nice flowers. :)

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...

toadally!

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...