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  1. ducks4you

    Pollinator/Local wildflower plants to use on properties

    My Village board is looking for money saving ventures. Two board members have researched grants for free seeds for pollinator gardening and probably also planting local native flowers. They/I wish to save money mowing properties that the Village owns, especially one property too small to...
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    Stupidity in action

    THIS IS A RANT FEEL FREE TO SKIP THIS POST I wanted to keep my gardening thread free of politics, but I wanted to share things that I have heard about that I believe, are very harmful. More stupidity~...
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    Ducks 4 in '24

    Couldn't think of a better name for this year's thread. My gardening New Year's resolution? No more online seed buying!!! (for this year's growing season) I have determined that anything else I need to buy I can get at a box store. I did make one more 2023 seed purchase, from Victory Seeds...
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    Christmas 2023, what do you recommend that family give you for Christmas?

    I thought I would start a discussion about suggested gifts for we gardeners, items that we REALLY appreciated and use all of the time. Non gardening family always ask for your list and none of the things WE want are flying off of the shelves. I have two suggested favorite gardening items: 1)...
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    What kind of cucumbers do you recommend?

    As you know I have had limited success growing cucumbers VERY late, both in 2022 and 2023. I had to put my stash in the fridge bc one of them starting rotting!! :eek: Won't get to my pickles until Monday... I realized that EVERYBODY, inCLUDING DH loves fresh cucumbers, but the picklers have to...
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    Farmers using basalt to fix their Carbon

    https://modernfarmer.com/2023/09/enhanced-rock-weathering/?utm_source=modernfarmer.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=why-farmers-are-pouring-rocks-onto-their-fields
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    Invasives and your experiences with them.

    I came across this YouTube to share about a list of invasive plants you should NOT buy/plant, that are readily available at garden centers and box stores. I have not had the terrible spread of mint and lilly of the valley, which are pretty much confined to next to my buildings. Others do. My...
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    Throw away Downey Unstoppables!!

    I have used the purple and teal beads, but when I switched to the orange beads 2 months ago I never realized WHY I was started suffering from welts all over my body!! I searched to see if anybody else had the same problem, bc I have NEVER had welts as an allergic reaction EVER...
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    Fox's late birthday Treasure Hunt!

    GS, "Fox" turned 8yo last month. Parents brought him for a visit yesterday. Our gift was a cigar box full of coins, single dollar bills, and a few rolls on single dollar coins, buried in the garden (in a ziplock bag,) and inside of a black cigar box. It was labeled, "Bat's Treasure," meaning...
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    DUCKS for THEE in 2023

    New year, new thread! I took the bones from the lamb chops and the duck https://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/ducks4you-for-2022.24449/page-90#post-414051 Posts #894 & 895 and I am cooking up broth for the next few days. Crockpot that I asked for was smaller than I realized, but I have a...
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    Freezing potatoes and other things

    Greetings, Greetings, little Gardeners/Food Preservers!! Eldest DD (aka, "the Chef,"), thinks we could freeze potatoes, so we are looking into it. Meijer has 5 pounds of russets/99 cents, through November 26th, and we wouild like to stock up. Youngest DD had a funny~I suggested storing them on...
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    Blood Moon after midnight toNIGHT, November 8th, 2022

    HEADS UP!!! There is a Blood Moon tonight. That is a lunar eclipse, for those who didn't know this. I got up for the Tetrad, 2013-2014, where there were 2 Blood Moons in the Spring, 2 Blood Moons in the Fall. They were Lovely!! This one is visible only in the North America, the Pacific...
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    Plants that are easy to grow

    @flowerbug reminded me from Post#21 https://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/tossing-a-variety.24825/page-3 about easy to grow flowers and vegetables. I have gotten permission from the postmaster to pull petunias from their bed. Somebody (???) planted them several years ago and they keep coming...
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    Who is buying seeds early...like me!

    I have been picking up seeds for 2023 where I can find them. Let;s post about our experiences. Jungs I bought 450 Illini Xtra Sweet Corn, hybrid and Winter Luxury Pie Pumpkin - 25 seeds, just bc. Easy to use website, and the package came in with about a week. Since they are saving seed in...
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    Paddleboarding Canadian goats

    https://modernfarmer.com/2022/09/paddleboarding-goats/
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    Anybody here have experience with black walnut trees?

    As you can read about~ https://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/ducks4you-for-2022.24449/page-16 #154-#156 I have just discovered a 15 ft black walnut tree growing on the west side of my pasture fencing. I harvested nearly 300 walnuts, debating about a March harvest even being Edible. But, now, I...
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    Ducks4you for 2022

    Didn't know where to start for this year. I'd LIKE to talk about the 15 sweet pepper plants downstairs and growing---2 have flowers--that NEVER SHOULD HAVE SURVIVED 1/2 of last year, but I will be sad if muck it up and kill them. Not to be a downer, But, I have sweat equity work to do on 6 out...
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    Mayfield, KY Tornado, 12-10-21, charities

    As you know, many communities were hard hit in 4 states Friday night by Devastating tornadoes. The one that travelled 227 miles through Mayfield, KY, Could have been as strong as an F5, which takes a building and moves it somewhere else. One survivor Facebooked in real time to be sure that she...
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    Tired of friends/neighbors who are newbies to gardening telling you How to garden?

    I Love to see new members here. :love I am getting WEARY of listening to some folks around me who are reporting, "Why, I NEVER grew anything before. I found a pepper spoiled in my fridge and I planted it and got LOTS of peppers from it!" "It Just HAPPENED." Gosh, this is SOOOO EASY." You...
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    I want a pair of goats

    I do this from time to time. Remember my thread, "I want a Magnolia Tree"? I had reasons. My neighbor over the fence had a I-don't-know-How-old magnolia tree, about 35 ft tall, No wind protection, so I knew it was doable. MY Magnolia Jane was a WM clearance, spent it's first winter in a pot...
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