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Do you guys have to move all these hoses and sprinkler systems when it's time to mow lawns? I know this would be challenging for me, given the weekly visits of my lawn mowing guy and how fast the grass grows here. At this point I have only three raised beds that need watering, plus the potted...

Nope. I have only landline phones. I have to take credit for this mistake myself, but thanks for offering me an excuse.

I did, and I'm an idiot. lol Can you tell that I passed high school chemistry with a grade of D+, and that was most likely a pity grade?

You're correct, and I'm (obviously) no chemist!

I'm willing to believe that talking to plants could have a beneficial impact, but skeptical that vibrations are the reason. I'd have to see how the research on this was conducted. If the non-control group was subjected to machines emitting vibration and grew better than those in the control...

And here I bought a multitude of cherry tomatoes at the farmers market 2 days ago, thinking that my own would not ripen for at least a week. Went out to water the plants today and found this:

#4 - I'm not sure about the effect of vibrations, but breathing out carbon monoxide while speaking in close proximity to a plant, is furnishing that plant with a needed element.

Watching seeds grow from tiny sprouts to plants bearing flowers or edible goodies. It never gets old.

"Arnica montana, also known as wolf's bane, leopard's bane, mountain tobacco and mountain arnica, is a moderately toxic European flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae." Sounds interesting. I've found "Medicine of the People" (a proprietary topical herbal mix made by the Navajo) to be...

That's what I was thinking.

That is so cool. I love saving anything about to be scrapped that can still be used, or re-purposed. You should see the collection of "trash" in my cellar that I keep, because I know as soon as I part with anything, a use for it will emerge and I'll be kicking myself for letting it go.

I digitalized the music off all our old cassette tapes and CDs, put them on thumbdrives that will play on any fairly recent car stereo system. (I replaced the old CD player in my husband's 2012 CRV with a new system that plays thumbdrives; my 2017 KIA's factory installed system plays them.)...

and many violins ... and a dog

"Lack of time or energy to keep up" was my pick, and I see I'm in good company. In my case, being retired, I have plenty of time, but my energy levels grow smaller with each passing year. I've so far coped by abandoning those areas furthest from the house and letting nature take them over...

A lot of vegetable plants have short life spans, it's true.

I harvested a few large handfuls of green beans from the vines grown in a container on my porch. Ate some right off the plants, tossed a few into a salad, and added the rest to a stir fry. That was all that the vines had to give and they were looking pretty ratty at this point, so I pulled...

I made a stir fry last night, mostly from produce bought at the farmers market, but a handful of green beans grown in a container on my front porch went into the mix. Last week I harvested and ate what was left of my beets and beet greens after deer ravaged them. Grrr! I bought more at the...

How appropriate is this!? Today is National Mead Day.. I buy mine from Silver Hand Meadery in Virginia. There was a local place here in Vermont that used to market their mead, but they're no longer in business. I've never had salal berries. What do they taste like? Happy Mead Day!

I'm definitely of the "procrastinate most of the day about going out until sunset is looming" persuasion, and this is not even when the heat is extreme. The only gardening effort that beckons to me anymore are the plants on my front porch. They don't need weeding!

Elk? His smaller cousins visited me for dinner last night.