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I don't know that I have any strong allergies to garden plants. Walking through tall corn that brushes against bare arms can fairly quickly become irritating. That might be a very common reaction and, perhaps, a common experience with many plants and the larger the plant, the stronger the...

What do you have growing, going, or just shaking around in a seed packet? Busy midday, I had some pepper seedlings that really needed to be separated out from their community cookie boxes. It was 35⁰f in the unheated greenhouse at dawn, 45f by the time I really had to do the job or run out of...

Is your attitude towards hydrangeas: 😍/:rant? You take care of their needs through the growing season and then tolerate the ugly dead flowers through Winter – because you understand that you shouldn't prune them until Spring. Then, you clean up the plants and the result: few flowers for the...

A list that I came across and mostly words from 18th century English and earlier :). With the new season and as you try to arrange things in the garden, rhyming words might come in handy :). higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, hodge-podge, mingle-mangle, arsy-versy, kim-kam, hub-bub, crawly-mauly...

What would you like to grow that isn't so common? What about pleasing others? My diet must be very ho-hum to some folks. It is nearly devoid of fast-food, however. That is probably one reason I like to keep it simple – easy preparation ;). Gardening. The diversity of greens over the years has...

Sorry, ducks but you and your friend didn't ....!

There have been many changes. There were no books in the house besides the family dictionary and bible. Now ... upstairs in a rental house where we lived during the earliest years of me learning to read, there were several volumes of something called "The Book of Knowledge." The owners had left...

What night sky? There has been a thick blanket of clouds over this neighborhood so long ... I mean, even the location of the Sun is often a mystery during daytime! I was surprised to learn that we will have a Full Moon in 2 Days. The last time I saw the moon it was a tiny sliver near the...

Cash Box Top Songs, Summer 1967 June 17 "Respect" Aretha Franklin June 24 "Groovin" The Young Rascals July 1 "Windy" The Association July 8 " July 15 "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" Frankie Valli July 22...

Vegetable gardeners are interested in eating the production of their gardens. Usually. Reflecting on Chinese New Year, I'm thinking how Asian vegetables and simple cooking, mostly learned as a patron of Chinese restaurants as a kid, has encouraged me to eat more vegetables. I took out the only...

George Orwell died on this date. I read Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four several years before 1984 and remember being surprised that, to my young mind, it had been written in such a distant past. Forgetting that copyright date, I have several times wondered when Nineteen Eighty-Four was...

@flowerbug brought us the new thread in 2023. I'm thinking that there is lots of weather news in North America right now! And probably, this is true worldwide. From my view east, it would be interesting for our Montana gardeners to check in and tell us how things are there this morning...

Looking through Wikipedia, because I'm not a horticulturalist and so take a layman's investigative approach, I notice that there are often changes over time to scientific names. Okay, I assume that there has been agreement between several scientists that specialize in the plants to make these...

I won't trouble you with a photo. Surge protectors. There are 4 of them in this little house. Sure, they look kinda okay when you bring them home. Then, you attach the devices to them! Wires. Is there a way to straighten them? If I shop around, could I replace those that are spiraling...

;) It could be the sounds of nature while we are gardening. Of course, we are nearly to the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere so many us are not gardening or even outdoors much. When you are doing some things, maybe solitary maybe shared, entertainment or informational, what is it...

The "Boston Tea Party" The British East India Company reported .. . 9,659 English pounds in damages from the incident.

Is there a chance that Romanesco Cauliflower would be able to handle a semi-arid climate better than the regular, white type? Whatever your gardening climate, have you had experience with this cauliflower? Steve

Sunday Morning. Cup of Coffee. The first catalogs for the New Year

Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried cities under 15+ feet of volcanic ash. Found recently by archaeologists, what is believed to be a sorcerer's kit. It will soon be on display at the Palestra Grande in Pompeii, Italy. Steve