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I totally feel your frustration and concern. I too wish everyone would enter their locations. Making the field required is definitely a recurring request on all my sites, and the perfect answer is always missing :( After years of discussion, opinions, debate... and even some experimentation...

Funny you should mention that... I had actually bought a bottle of it and added it to my gas and engine oil! I'm a huge fan of this youtuber and got the idea of seafoam from him:

LOL! Renting out a big part of the house helps pay the bills!

LOL, give the wild oat a couple of weeks and it will get dry and tan. Right now all the hills and mountains are SUPER green with it, but once we stop getting rain, it quickly dries up and becomes a big fire hazard! I'm in a pretty temperate (and almost ideal) climate in the SF Bay Area. I'm in...

I have a Montgomery Ward lawnmower my Dad bought... at least 30 years ago, probably more. I've been using it as my "weed lawnlower" for the past 10 years. It has run surprisingly well during those years I've owned it, even though I've not taken care of it properly. Each Spring when I pull it...

SUPER sorry for the inconvenience. Our server company said they were doing "upgrades", but when the process was done, everything started going south... and it took a while for them to find / fix the problem. Hopefully everything is good now!

Thanks for posting this AND especially for the screenshot! Search is very important and should show all the time, on any device... so we're looking into this. @Artichoke Lover which device / model are you using?

Ya, it's a bit different than before (the company that creates the software made the change recently). The "separate" preview has it's pros and cons for sure.

:hugs I stop by quite often, but am usually just browsing, or doing admin-type stuff in the background. Y'all are just too kind. Your words and actions (especially those that are supportive and helpful to others) are GREATLY appreciated!!

Spot-on, thanks y'all! Going to get work to isolate and destroy! :D

As part of my chicken grazing frame experiment on BYC, I planted a few BOSS (black oil sunflower seeds) to grow in the house. They've actually been doing pretty decently inside. ... except we just noticed a ton of what looks like "webbing" and tiny buggies. I'm guessing some kind of spider...

I'm in the East Bay too, so there's a really good chance the same squirrels would be going after our fruit too! They definitely decimate our pears, etc. :( In some ways that sounds like FOREVER, but in other cases, it comes and goes so quick! I'm definitely going to have to get at planting a...

Is this specific to the American ones? I've had the Japanese ones out on my counter for over a week, and they still taste good.

A few weeks ago I took out a few of the BOSS growing in my chicken grazing frame experiment and planted them in a pot to see how they'd do indoors in the Winter. So far, pretty good!

I'm testing this image on a desktop computer / chrome. I'm inserting a thumbnail and resizing it to be tiny: You should be able to do the same if you click on an image and then drag the corners:

I'm in Zone: 9b, and this great article says they grow in 8 - 11 https://homeguides.sfgate.com/fuyu-persimmon-tree-care-43506.html ... but I didn't really need to even look that up since I know these were grown very locally. LOL!

From what I'm reading about the Fuyu, they are a non-astringent variety... which I guess means they can be eaten right from the tree?

I had some from a friend when I was super young and hated them... so just assumed they were all the same. I've mostly been eating them raw. The outer skin is a tiny bit more thick than an apple, but not bad at all. I just cut them in quarters, remove the 4 or so large seeds, and eat them up...

Ok, I just asked the person I got them from, and they said the variety is "Fuyu persimmons". I'm surprised how sweet they are. I'd almost say the taste is a mix of apricot, honeydew, and kiwi... but different texture. Here's a pic:

For 40 years I've been completely bad-mouthing persimmons. I've honestly thought they were some of the worst fruits people could grow in their yards. I've been dissing them for as long as I can remember. Well, a week ago my mom brought some over for us to try. ... and HOLY COW/. I actually...