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    What’s Your Go-To Organic Pest Control Method? 🐛✨

    Ground bees are very aggressive in most cases this time of year. There is one exception and not aggressive bee nest and I leave that ground nest alone. But the aggressiveness of the other ground bees are a threat to anyone near by. My best method to eliminate them is at night when they are all...
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    What are You Eating from the Garden?

    Have you tried broccolini? It’s my fav geenie. Broccolini is a green vegetable that is a naturally developed hybrid of broccoli and Chinese broccoli (gai lan) Also known as "baby broccoli," it has long, thin stalks and smaller florets than standard broccoli. Flavor and uses. Taste: Broccolini...
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    Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

    Thank you for the place on the home page of Miss Poppy’s glamour shot showing off her colors. 🙌
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    Newbie

    I looked up your question and this is what I found…… A pullet is a sexually immature young female chicken, while a cockerel is a sexually immature young male chicken. Both are juveniles under a year old, but "pullet" applies to females that have not yet started to lay eggs, and "cockerel"...
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    Gone to the Dogs

    Marie sorry to hear of your friends death. Very sad when out friends leave this world. It that time when we remember all the fun and good thing that brought the friendship together in the first place. 🙏🏽 On goodness Nancy is going bonkers about certain things . Give her a time out in a...
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    Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

    Yeah :weee Ducks gets puppies tomorrow. 🐶🐶🐶 How old…and boy what fun… Hopefully your cats will welcome the puppies .🐈 Sending lots of interactive puppy toys your way…and special chew toys… What kind ? Must post pics.. ‼️ Garlic chips look great.
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    Coffee

    Maybe I’m a bit late to this discussion , I use a IPad … much easier to carry around does everything I need . I didn’t like a lap top either. To bulky and good golly molly even though it wasn’t stationary it ran on batteries after recharged it was to much to work on without sitting down or at a...
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    Hi from Florida!

    :welcome :thumbsup Plz post some flower pics, would luv to see your garden. 🤠
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    Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

    Thank you @marie. My little hummer buddy followers me everywhere when outside in the garden.. I named her Miss Poppy..I rescued her when she was just a baby was stuck in the feeder or fell asleep on the side bar. Here’s her lil nest.
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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    Only in the last few years has our area been invaded by Belding squirrels. We have several other squirrels like grey squirrel, fox squirrel and chipmunks that like to rob tubers and bulbs from the patio pots. Also moles , voles , rabbits all the normal complaints that garden goodies attract. But...
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    Gone to the Dogs

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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    I have used traps to snag the ground squirrels. The past 2 years this trap called the Squirrelinator worked very well. Could catch 3 or more at a time. But they learned how to grab the bait over the top of the cage . Soo I just got a new trap a Tube Tunnel,trap , made by the forest service ...
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    Gone to the Dogs

    Sometimes it takes time undoing the bad behaviors before the new acceptable behaviors are realized.
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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    We have similar weather here too… Mother Nature is very Fickle lately especially since climate change . I think my zone has changed. It’s colder in winters and hotter in summers. It’s touch and go when it’s warm enough to harden off plants or when ground temps are warm enough to plant. We have...
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    Your Weather, 2025

    Overcast / smoky from smoke here today and 88F . Thunder storms and thunder boomers tonite sounds very close. Scaring the pups…
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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    That would be a great idea. I have seeds from burpee in my seed stash. They are the doubles same color. Hard to find. So pretty the double flowers are so perfect they don’t look real. 😜
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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    @heirloomgal fantastic sunflowers, verigated,eaf phlox and hey my favorite color and plant Hollyhocks… 🙌 You have a beautiful garden… ❤️🏆
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    Funny Business

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    Your Weather, 2025

    Today’s weather 97F Thank goodness for shade from the trees. Keeps the house 20-30 degrees cooler than outside temps. Cooler and snowy winter predicted by the father’s Almanac for the PNW. Not happy to see that… :oops...
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    Your Weather, 2025

    No haven’t seen Nifty’s in zone 9 and I am not on any of the subforums. My zone is 8 winter temps -15 F to 30F. I’ll have to look it up, thanks 😊
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