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The University of Illinois is probably WRONG!!!! I am 30 miles south, zone 6 and I have Never had a rosemary survive MY winter. They are pipe dreaming.... OK...looked it up Stark Bros sells it. Might have to Buy one. :rolleyes...

I took an accounting and I still have 50 quarts of canned tomatoes in the downstairs pantry. I think that will us through the winter, since I am doubtful that there will be an additional canning this year...alTHOUGH I did can 4 pints for DD last week...might happen again. We are heading up to...

Tomatoes that I grew/canned in 2022, pulverized jalepanoes that I harvested in 2019 and dehydrated, and sweet peppers that I harvested this morning, in tonight's chili.

I really like perennials bc they are NO CARE, like iris, tulips, daffodills, day lillies and roses. The other ones I have become interested in are the wildflowers that I planted that keep coming back, drought or no drought, like larkspur, black eyes susans, echinacea and yarrow.

My favorite tv knee replacement convalescence channel this year has been CSPAN2, weekend, BookTv and history lecture series. I can lay in bed, half asleep, or working in my bedroom closet and listen and learn. I have been especially interested in Revolutionary War history, what with ALL of the...

Great gateway drug. Now you are her dealer, ya know...

I harvested ALL of the Serrano peppers in the whiskey barrel planter, more in the tomato planter by the side door, cut them and I am now dehydrating them. Dunno how you'all do YOUR prep work, but next to the sink by the coffee maker is My preferred spot. :lol: I used gloves to protect my eyes...

I tried zinnias, twice, basil seeds twice--NOTHING grew in this pot next to the whiskey barrel, then...basil sprouted. I also sprouted one nasturtium there. I plan to overwinter this pot in my 2nd floor south facing upstairs office this winter. Since I never Did open the windows there, and I...

I thought that all of the mums in my front walkway bed were dead, but one survived, a rust one. I bought Almost past it purple and yellow mums at Lowe's--box stores don't hire Anybody in their garden center who can tell shXt from shinola--all that they needed was repotting and water. Their...

Joy is having gathered so many garden supplies for MY needs that my Fall gardening job is to organize them and store them for the 2026 season!! :woot:woot:woot

I am SO Glad that I bought tomatoes and peppers from local guy who gardens almost his entire yard in a town nearby. I Thought that the long peppers were Jalepanoes, but now I know that they are Marconi sweet peppers--I remember the labels, and I am growing several in different pots. I have...

DD's enjoyed dinner in our "cold room," and puppies slept well in the cool in their crate. Potty training, so not finished is going very well. I am also exerting control. I mentioned the atty friend, whose GSD's are 5 months old. She took them for a walk recently and face planted bc they are...

We have two more days of stupid intense heat and humidity~!! :rant Friday DH had trouble with the heat, SO yesterday morning I turned on the AC in the LR. HE happily watched college football yesterday, and felt very good. We have a burn warning bc it's been so dry. Rain Monday Night and...

Joy is having a NEW washer with a huge tub--bigger than the one that never worked right--that let's me wash in HOT water!!! :weee:weee:weee Joy is cleaning up the garlic bed and finding More Alaska snow pea pods with 11 peas!! :woot

Dang, Steve--AND you are getting frost tonight, too!!! :eek: We are totally opposite--high's around 90 during the day, NO RAIN in sight, dry as a bone. I have NO pasture left, so ponies are only in the turnout around the barn and I am feeing hay, 1 bale/day, 2 horses. They are relishing night...

@kcinwv , thanks for the article on Monarchs. I don't think too many of us HERE are spraying for these wild plants. We members of TEG are really not the types to Roundup kill dandelions sprouting in the sidewalks. As for ME, I find smothering my least favorite weeds better than 2 D4'ing them...

Ha, Ha!! That's my daughter, not me!!

MORE cuddle puddling...

@Dahlia , crate trained already?!?!? :lol: :lol: :lol: I got this at Rural King some 8 years ago, for about $150. Can't touch it for that, Now. It was labeled for Great Danes, and I bought it for Eva. I think I would be going nuts with TWO puppies, if I didn't have this.

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