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Have you tried sticking it into a cut onion? I saw it on youtube but haven't tried it...

I have a Christmas Cactus....yes it is still alive and sometimes gets water... I think it used to bloom in the beginning! Not in a room that I stay in very often so yes, somewhat neglected....

Often seen around here in the spring, Cat tv....he would spend hours up there and it was his favorite sleeping place when in use!!

Have you ever overwintered geraniums?? I had a neighbor that used to hang them upside down or lay them in a cardboard box in a 'cooler back room..' Here geraniums are super popular and kinda pricey to make a good display. I'd love to figure out how to overwinter them!!

I have the same problem with varieties of heirloom seeds, like tomatoes and now beans!! Haven't succeeded in growing out either complete collection but my brain seems to know when it sees one I don't have!! The plants indoors survive in 4 locations... covered in small and large pots of...

The iphone sits on the dresser by the bed! The sofa bed is also my sofa and tv watching and gaming location. The dresser holds my active seed hoard. The rest of the hoard is in the freezer. No room for 1/2 of a beef in there anymore. Now we just do 1/4 of a beef!!! It's that or buy another freezer!

I did post on another community that gardening season meant a messy house, more as a warning/reminder to hubs than anything else...

I remember running SMACK in the face into those very large yellow and black spiders hanging in their webs in the middle of the garden pathway as a child!! Now I am much wiser and don't run...

Welcome from NW Ohio...I once had a fab victorian on 1 acre intown, for about a decade with gardens. Now I'm on my dream hobby farm and retired. My biggest worry is baby free ranging poults surviving or the 200 honeybees huddling UNDER the hive not making it through the cool night to morning's...

Morning coffee...was served while half asleep. He's already been outside a couple times, once to gather wood to take the chill off the room, once to run get milk and ice cream for the pending cuppa! It had orange peel slices in it this time for that bit of 'extra' flavor!! Yum...

The cats are inspecting this strange tomato plant. Something fishy about Hege's German Pink...

2022 resulted in a very odd tomato plant. The cats smell something fishy about it, not sure about that umbillical flower on it either...... The mater is heirloom, 'Hege's German Pink' and it had enough acid to encourage another bite, not as bland as some of the big pink beefsteaks. It does have...

Here's a photo of most of the garden looking east. My profile shot is looking west. It is 35x90 with a 20x 40 additional section where we took back some of the chicken run. Plan on planting corn/beans in most of the chicken run and closing it off from the hens. This is 2023 with corn back left...

I did some weeding while keeping an eye on the resident turkey hen and poults. They seem to be doing fine. I saved all the wandering jew plants I found, they are succulent, branch, have tiny blue flowers. I sold a bunch of comfrey this spring so I figured to plant up a bunch of pots with the...

So I see we aren't the only ones with gates to 'fix.' Currently instead of fixing either of my gates, the hinges of one of them was salvaged to install a new gate in the beeyard. So now both gates to the compound still need fixin. Meanwhile a 3rd compound was built to hold three alpacas and that...

Update, traffic of foragers was pretty heavy at the greenhouse old hive area and very light at the new hive. Sigh. Hope the foragers huddle in the nuc I set up tonight and I can join them to the new hive after dark...

And after sorting through the seed hoard, found a large bag of those limas from gurney's.. must be couple years old so maybe I can replant that section.

Coffee finally showed up. It's almost noon. Still chilly outside. Now I'll probably head outside and see what kind of trouble I can get into.

No breakfast yet. He had the reheated leftover pizza that gave him heartburn last night. I need to go get my coffee and get my stumps movin!

Garden is still really wet. Pulled a few weeds. I put catnip and yerba mate mint alongside the bottom of the nuc in the greenhouse because I found a huge nest of ants where the hive had been. Mint is supposed to chase off ants...???