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The beginnings of a new Top Bar Hive! This will be a double wall, insulated hive once completed. First Asparagus coming up! And at this point we are eating our own Green Beans, Celery, Parsley, Swiss Chard, Summer squash, Cucumbers, Lettuce and soon Cilantro!

In a couple more days, i’ll be eating my own cukes again. And a nice Celery “orphan” i potted up for our Pastors wife! I told him not to count on that alone for Mothers Day, probably should still include some Chocolate.

The sequence. A 2 1/2 gallon pail of amendments are broadcast on each bed before double tilling with the Mantis. Bed is trowled smooth with a cement trowel then lightly tamped to firm soil before using a Dibble board to make the perfectly spaced holes for set Onions. Once each hole is loaded the...

70 new Comfrey plants in my “Bedouin hardening tent”.

Earlier spring by 2 weeks.

Ladies, @ducks4you, @akroberts, this cat, mouse, rat, chicken thing has really led my last post; which was somewhat important, off in a ditch! I would appreciate if if these sort of things went somewhere else? Immediately coming over here and hyjacking the thread is selfish. And yes i did...

Chicken wires probably the best advice at least more civilized than the “drive by shooting” I’d suggest! All you gotta do is shoot the cat then run over to your neighbors and tell them “ you’re not gonna believe what just happened! I was just out back pulling weeds and enjoying your cat when...

Still grooving in the 40’s excites my creative juices; so I thought I’d show (anyone who may be interested) how to have great starter mix with out buying something special; which may not end up to be so special! I’d mentioned this previously but know that a picture is worth a thousand words. In...

Well, it got up to 42f today with some Sun! Sorry @heirloomgal; i know your struggling! Everybody’s roof is dripping and it’s entirely comfortable outside. Comfortable enough that if this stays another day (and it’s suppose to) i might gather up a fly rod and head down to a local creek that...

Sorry you live in such a hostile environment!🫣

Over the years i’ve mentored several folks who developed an interest in Organic gardening. The more you study, the more your head will explode from all the good ideas and advice you will discover. Some of it may be helpful but some of it wont; a lot depends on your situation; what you grow, how...

While fixing our dinner yesterday i found this Lady bug inside a head of Romaine, which is kinda common. We always soak the produce in a weak peroxide bath and drain before refrigerating then as i peel off the leaves for a meal i’ll rinse them again and this is when i found her. Well, i just...

I can agree with both camps on the neem thing. It does work well but it’s not my favorite product to use. Several years ago i found this stuff which is actually a more highly refined neem. Still not my favorite thing to use because i dont care for the smell but it’s a whole lot easier to use...

With variances between +43f and -43f there’s something for everybody.🙄 We’re still hovering in the single digit minus nights with daytime temps no more than +10f. Suppose to change next week? https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2024/11/30/big-chill-remains-over-alaska/

As a general rule, im a mostly, pretty much of the time, Thankful person. Not just on this day we choose to celebrate Thanksgiving! To say “im thankful for our minus 5f weather today” might be stretching it though. You don’t have to look very far to find someone with worse problems than your...

When i went out to re-load the bird feeder (for Thanksgiving) this little Red Breasted Nuthatch greeted me, not the least bit afraid! Makes me feel good to see the little birds actively working on the bones!

Some Alaskans are pretty amazing, i showed you this last year too! “If your in the hood and need a bird” she’s your Gal!😊 https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2024/11/26/woman-drops-thanksgiving-turkeys-her-plane-alaskans-living-off-road-system/

Just another day at the Bird feeder!🙄 Now that he’s found it he may stick around; watching him and the Magpies harass each other is pretty cool. This is an immature one and a first for us, we have had a couple Ravens in the past but usually just the usual Magpies, some woodpeckers and the...

3 Celebrity’s!🙄 And one from last year.

Several years ago i realized just how short a time my stuff was in “starting mix” before being up potted into my regular grow mix. So i eliminated the starting mix because it never seemed all that great anyway; and for a couple years now when i start Anything, it’s in Roots Organic 707 “potting...