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all this warm weather is going to melt all the snow (which isn't much at this point but at least it is white and bright instead of gray, brown and bits of green...). and speaking of bits of green there are bits of green all over the place from the deer eating the cedar trees and digging down...

yes, i've grown Chaska Purple and Purple Rain (and others). the reverse dark purple seed coat i have also have showing up in the Purple Dove beans, but it has shown up in others that seem related but are still different enough to be considered different varieties. Chaska Purple i have down as...

wow @Artorius that sounds like a difficult season for sure. i hope this coming season is much better! i grew this one a few years ago. my notes said the seeds were bigger than Purple Dove, but i would not want to accidentally get them mixed together as they do look a lot alike. :) pretty...

i had to do a double take there for a moment as this is TEG. :) but yes, welcome to TEG from mid-Michigan.

sexual reproduction is very ancient. it adds complexity and increases diversity. yes! very interesting angles i'd not heard of before.

40sF this weekend and up to 50F by this coming Wednesday. in February?! eek!

hmm, well, we use instant coffee so no grounds, we don't normally cook vegetables in a lot of water and we don't rinse rice. our blights and fungi kill off the weaklings (ok, i'm just making that one up :) ), we have bacterial spot issues here or there, i'm not too worried about them being...

while i love both cats and dogs i still want to always inject a moment of caution because what can happen with any well trained pet is what also happens with humans - sometimes they go nuts. so to me they (animals as pets and also people in general) should pretty much never be left alone with...

it's incredible that some of us as kids probably drew some things that looked a lot like that... so that just goes to show that almost every child has that sort of potential and why each of us is precious. ok, now that i have that hallmark card moment written down we can get down to brass...

ok, i don't usually post links to videos but this is a really good presentation of how primates (which we are one of) might have come about. really interesting potential tie-in at the end you may enjoy as a bit of a surprise, but i won't give it away... :)

they are woodland edge plants which pop up any time there are disturbances and then they travel. birds spread their seeds. for best results you want full sun, plenty of organic material and room to spread. once they are established then you want to remove the older plants and let them retake...

we have some of those around but not sure i have all of those colors. they are some of the earliest colors we see in the spring.

if that is the same _Dirt_ book as by Montgomery it's well worth the read.

and we can always get imp plants...

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oh my! welcome back! :)

i don't replace deeper layers with shallow soil because the soil microbe community is different. instead i double dig and replace the deeper soil in the bottom, but i also layer it with whatever materials/compost i can find to help break up that deeper layer. here it is not caliche as much as...

ok. strawberries need to be renovated every two to three years, better if you go every other year. you can check them by seeing how big the crown is. once the crown starts to get longer then production will decline. yes, they do need some work. :) the strawberry patch i turned under a few...

hmm, winter kill in strawberries? i've not had that happen here even with very harsh winters, but one thing that did happen one year was that i got some transplanted too late and they were frost heaved out of the ground. do you have full sun there? i see a lot of trees in whatever pictures...

it did get to the forecast 39F today as i was curious i checked the weather station. [as a postscript] i should take a screen shot for the records because it might be the first time this century that they got the temperature right a week in advance...